Posts tagged data
Alleviating Your Mobile Security Woes
Feb 3rd
by John Harrington, Fiberlink This year, the security of confidential information on mobile devices is a top concern for companies across the world. Executives are being urged to finalize mobile security strategies while IT departments are in the drivers seat for implementation. Screw-ups will assuredly have a lasting backlash on the parties that fail to More >
A PC in everyone’s pocket. Financial Services leads the way, again.
Aug 3rd
by Jim Szafranski, Fiberlink Remember the days of investment bankers and investors carrying around the Blackberry 850 that looked more pager than the start of today’s smart phone craze? Also, wasn’t it just two years ago that Blackberry had a stranglehold on the enterprise smartphone? Well, those days are obviously gone and some new smartphone More >
Mass Data Protection Law: Start of a Trend?
Mar 1st
by Chris Corbet, Fiberlink On March 1st, 2010, the state of Massachusetts raised the bar for companies and their IT organizations by implementing tough legislation that requires new protections for customer data. Any organization that has customers located in Massachusetts will have to abide by 201 CMR 17.00: Standards for the Protection of Personal Information More >
Dark Clouds
Oct 14th
By guest blogger Clint Adams, Fiberlink. There has been much written already about the issues and events that led to the massive service outage and data loss that occurred at the Danger/Microsoft datacenter that hosted the T-Mobile Sidekick services: Sidekick outage casts cloud over Microsoft (CNet) Microsoft’s Danger Sidekick data loss casts dark on cloud More >
News on the Move
Aug 18th
Gartner Reports on the Hype Around Cloud Computing in 2009 The analysts put cloud computing on the top of their “Hype Cycle” for 2009, right next to “e-book readers” but say its wide adoption is likely 2-5 years off. Is Apple Getting In on the Cloud Computing Game? Could be. Or could be another front More >