Organizations around the world lose an estimated 5 percent of their annual revenues to fraud, according research by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). What better time to focus on fraud within your own organization than this week -- which happens to be International Fraud Awareness Week.
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On the heels of Microsoft’s recent announcement of higher-than-expected adoption comes a study conducted in August by Symantec of 1360 businesses that had completed a Windows 7 migration. The report examined migration practices and results and includes recommendations to help those planning such a migration.
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Unisys has released the results of its semi-annual Security Index, which is down slightly, at 136, from the same survey taken in the first half of the year. The company says the numerical rating indicates "a moderate level of concern." It's the lowest rating since the survey began in 2007.
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When we think of heterogeneous environments, we often think of mixing hardware types -- support for Android and Blackberry devices, for example, or managing servers from different manufacturers.
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The IT industry must adopt new energy-efficient technologies in the next ten years or face serious economic problems according to an 18-month study just published by the Institute for Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics (ISAID) and Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. Otherwise, IT runs a "serious risk of being unable to contribute to growing the global economy if limits are placed on carbon emissions."
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Cyberattacks are a part of daily IT life, but attacks with specific political goals are increasingly frequent and costly, according to a new report, the Symantec 2010 Critical Infrastructure Protection Study.
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So much to do, so little time. That familiar refrain is very much on the minds of database professionals who yearn for more time to tune and fix poor performing SQL code to accelerate their database and application performance according to a just-released Database Trends Survey conducted by Embarcadero Technologies.
The Web-based survey, taken in July and August, received 1230 responses from DBAs, developers, architects, and analysts about the database-related tasks they wanted to spend more time performing. Most respondents (41.8 percent) work in enterprises valued at more than $1 billion; 60 percent of represented organizations had at least 1,000 employees. Nearly a third (30.4 percent) had been a DBA or working with databases for ten to 15 years.
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In the first of a planned annual series of reports about global software quality trends, Cast, Inc. presents an eye-opening figure for all IT managers. The software analysis and measurement company's study estimates that the cost of fixing problems in production applications exceeds $1 million per application.
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