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Hosted Private Cloud Adoption Grows Worldwide The adoption of hosted private clouds is expanding worldwide, according to a recent survey conducted by 451 Research and sponsored by Microsoft. The accompanying report, "Hosting and Cloud Study 2014: Hosting and Cloud Go Mainstream," reveals that...
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Government Snooping Drives Firms Away From Cloud Considering the attention the NSA surveillance scandal has received, it's not surprising that many companies are reluctant to store sensitive data in the cloud.
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IT Lacks Tools and Support to Meet Business Needs What does it take for the IT organization to get its due from the business side of the company? As reported in a variety of survey-based content on Baseline, the tech department must emerge as an impact-making contributor to business objectives...
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Ten Facts Covering 50 Years of IBM Mainframes In 1991, industry experts called for the “inevitable” death of mainframe computers. Well, to paraphrase the famous Mark Twain quote, reports of the mainframe’s death have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, on April 8th, IBM...
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IT Must Undergo a Makeover in 2014 IT is focusing on three areas in 2014: redefining IT's value to the enterprise, developing architecture and data analytics capabilities, and realigning talent.
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Investments in Security Don't Keep Pace With Risks These days, it's nearly impossible to open a newspaper or peruse a business or technology Website without reading about a serious security breach at a company, university or government agency. According to a new survey report from Turnkey...
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Dealing With a 'Bloody' Mess I'm about as techy as you can get, but I'm about ready to unplug everything and disconnect from the grid, thanks to the recent news about the Heartbleed bug.
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Ten Tech Trends to Enhance Business and Innovation Deloitte's report includes five disruptive and five enabling technologies that offer the opportunity to expand IT capabilities, operations and business models.
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Signs Your Management Cares About Employees The numbers are troubling: A mere 13 percent of employees worldwide are engaged at work, according to Gallup. Of the other 87 percent, 63 percent are not engaged (they lack motivation and are fairly apathetic), and 24 percent are actively disengaged...
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Tips for Building Successful Virtual Teams Nearly nine out of 10 professionals surveyed conduct at least one-quarter of their work-related activity virtually. That means workers must understand how to thrive in an environment where they often don't interact face to face with colleagues with...
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