Game on: Smart businesses tap into gamification
Almost half of Fortune 1000 companies are using gamification to improve their business. Here’s how IT departments can use it to avert disaster.
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One Year After Hurricane Sandy … Are You Prepared for a Disaster?
Today’s IP news roundup highlights some of the latest headlines in convergence, virtualization and more:
One year after Hurricane Sandy, Forbes.com has published a list of things you may be forgetting at your disaster recovery site. The article states, “Most business continuity and disaster...
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IT Security Is Protecting the Wrong Assets, Says Study
Today’s IP news roundup highlights some of the latest headlines in network security, convergence, virtualization and more:
An Oracle study has revealed that enterprises allocate 67% of their IT resources to protecting their networks, although they believe that a database breach would cause...
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‘Mitigation by design’: The way to fend off floods, hackers and even worse
RADIO RECAP Vito Mangialardi tells 570News listeners about the importance of a BC/DR plan, and how to choose a provider that can offer the right services for your business
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Recover from Outages in Minutes – Not Hours
According to Dell, you no longer have days – or even hours – to recover from outages, as “Today’s internal and external users have much higher expectations when it comes to server availability: they want to see applications available all the time, 24 hours a day in many cases. This raises...
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Almost 90% of Businesses Are Proactive About Network Security [Study]
Today’s IP news roundup highlights some of the latest headlines in network security, disaster recovery and more:
The latest AT&T Business Continuity Study revealed that almost 90% of businesses are proactively addressing their network security and business continuity. Many of these...
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Global Mobile Data Usage Doubled Within the Past Year
Today’s IP news roundup highlights some of the latest headlines in mobility, business continuity and more:
According to the latest “Ericsson Mobility Report”, global mobile subscriptions grew by 8% while mobile broadband subscriptions increased by 45% year-on-year during Q1 2013. This...
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What to Consider Before Moving Your Backup and Recovery to the Public Cloud
If you’re thinking about moving your backup and recovery to the cloud, you might want to check out CA ARCserve’s tip sheet, “The Top 10 Best Practices to Leverage the Public Cloud for Backup and Disaster Recovery”. This tip sheet recommends a combination of both local and cloud protection,...
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Zeus Malware Activity Reaches a New High
Today’s IP news roundup highlights some of the latest headlines in network security, disaster recovery and more:
Computerworld reported that the number of Zeus (or Zbot) variants peaked in May and the increased malware activity is expected to continue through June. Zeus is primarily used in...
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When work happens anywhere, be ready for anything
Emergency Preparedness Week highlights the need for individuals to take more responsibility in planning for the worst. Our in-house expert shares his checklist for everything you need to do
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Transform Your Backup Environment
According to EMC2 , transforming your backups can lead to “faster product development cycles, accelerated global expansion efforts, improvements in customer profiling and more”. To help you achieve these benefits, EMC2 has published a Backup Game Plan. This ebook explores today’s biggest...
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2013 Will See the Mass Adoption of Business Mobility
Today’s IP news roundup highlights some of the latest headlines in mobility, disaster recovery and more:
With 29% of the global workforce now mobile, Wired predicts that this year will “see a rapid acceleration in the development and use of custom enterprise mobile apps, transforming the...
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Why business continuity demands succession planning of Papal proportions
BUSINESS CONTINUITY AWARENESS WEEK: Let’s explore the recent conclave and the importance of planning the key human resources that are essential to your organization’s ongoing operations
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Don’t Let Engineers Near Your Emergency “Off” Buttons … and Other Data Centre Disaster Lessons
Computing recently surveyed 140 IT professionals to learn about the risks – both real and perceived – that can cause downtime and/or data loss in medium to large enterprise data centres. While the majority of organizations plan for disasters such as fire (75%), extreme weather (62%) and loss of...
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RIM Announces New Name at BlackBerry 10 Launch
Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the IP news roundup. Here are the latest headlines in big data, virtualization, disaster recovery and more:
RIP RIM … long live BlackBerry. At the BlackBerry 10 launchtoday, Research In Motion announced that it’s changing its company name to...
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Mobility on the Rise, as 70% of Organizations Plan to Increase Smartphone and Tablet Usage
Welcome to the Monday edition of the IP news roundup. Here are the latest headlines in mobility, cloud and more:
A Jabra and Frost & Sullivan survey revealed that organizations are placing more importance on mobility. The study of 302 organizations revealed that 70% plan to increase their...
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The 5 things your network’s survival depends upon
Most data centres are designed to survive the likes of a Hurricane Sandy, but resilience is never a given. Key questions for telecom firms and service providers
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Chinese Virtualization Adoption Rates to Hit 70% by 2016
Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the IP news roundup. Here are the latest headlines in virtualization, disaster recovery, big data and more:
Chinese virtualization adoption rates are set to soar. Today, 10% of China’s x86 enterprise service workloads are virtualized. According to Gartner,...
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What a solid cloud provider should be able to do
A SunGard executive talks about how CIOs are moving down the road to infrastructure as a service
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The Big Data Boom May Cost You Your Privacy
Welcome to the Monday edition of the IP news roundup. Here are the latest headlines in big data, business continuity, disaster recovery and network security:
Is a potential big data economic boom worth the invasion of your privacy? PoliticusUSA.com questioned whether big data can create an...
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5 Disaster Recovery News Items That Will Help You Plan for the Unexpected
In light of Hurricane Sandy’s trip up the East Coast, this week’s IP news roundup focuses on disaster recovery. Here are some of the latest headlines:
Five things you must do after disaster strikes. According to an article on Entrepreneur.com, business continuity and data recovery plans are...
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SIP Trunking Improves Operational Efficiencies by Almost 25%
Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the IP news roundup, where you will find the latest headlines in SIP trunking, big data, disaster recovery and cloud:
SIP trunking can help companies improve efficiencies by 23%. A recent Webtorial report revealed that companies utilizing SIP trunking can...
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Sexiest Career of the 21st Century = Big Data Scientist?
Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the IP news roundup, where you will find the latest headlines in big data, network security, disaster recovery and cloud:
Here’s another sign that nerds are poised to take over the world … according to the Harvard Business Review, the sexiest career of...
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Disaster Recovery in the Cloud is Hot, but You May Get Burned
Welcome to the Monday edition of the IP news roundup. Here’s what’s happening in the worlds of disaster recovery, SIP trunking, big data, network security and cloud:
During the past 12-18 months, the disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) market has grown to a $425 million-$450 million...
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The no excuses approach to business continuity
Organizations can’t afford to lose customers or worse in the event of a disaster. Don’t let lack of time and resources hold you back. Your pre-planning begins here
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