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Companies continue to leave their security measures short when it comes to protection against mobile device risks
Mobile technology has become so mature and commonplace that the traditional boundaries between home and the workplace are being steadily eroded. According to a forecast released earlier this year by IDC the world's mobile worker population will pass the one billion mark this year and grow to nearly 1.2 billion people – more than a third of the world's workforce – by 2013.
Today working while on the move has never been easier and no one gives a second thought to sharing content across different electronic devices or even storing it in the Cloud. A study in May this year by the security vendor Clearswift found that 63 percent of workers use a work laptop, while nearly the same figure (57 percent) uses a home laptop for work. Another 37 percent use a smartphone as an ‘always on’ link to their office.
The ever rising numbers of mobile computers, notebooks and smart phones is forcing the business world to face an uncomfortable truth. The IT department is no longer in sole charge of p... [ more ]
Cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service save up to 55 percent of IT operations spend
SunGard Availability Services has demonstrated how a mid-sized organisation moving its existing production IT environment to SunGard’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model can, on average, reduce its total IT running costs by between 35% – 55%. The calculations have been based on real-life numbers across entire business budgets and SunGard’s experience of working with 10,000 customers.
With CIOs and IT departments under continuing pressure to reduce costs and increase efficiency, whilst continuing to grow, SunGard investigated the relative cost of ownership (RCO) of adopting its private, secure cloud-based computing Infrastructure as a Service solution. The investigation took into consideration not only the basic in-house data centre and infrastructure maintenance costs, but also includes ‘invisible’ ancillary charges that are often overlooked by CIOs when considering the expense of moving to the cloud.
These ancillary charges do not usually appear on CIOs’ own budgets, but... [ more ]
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