Along with the security trends from 2012 you’d expect to see (mobility of data, access from anywhere, malware attacks on new platforms, Web as the leading malware distribution medium), Gerhard Eschelbeck, the CTO of Sophos, points to cloud security as a key IT concern.
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In a new survey of 200 IT professionals conducted by Serena Software, an orchestrated IT solutions provider, it’s clear that what’s missing from IT service management is service. IT has no one to blame but itself.
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Quickbase, an enterprise cloud database offering from Intuit, released the results of a survey of 448 "information workers" from companies with at least 100 employees about their use of cloud applications.
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We used to call them information workers. New research from Mimecast suggests that a more apt name would be inbox workers -- users “who spend the majority of their time on e-mail and shun social media at work.”
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Sure, we all know the cloud security is an important part of IT’s job, but how do actual cloud practices match up with IT’s stated policies? According to new research released today, the answer is not very well -- at least not for the enterprises with such policies. What’s worse, almost one in five enterprises doesn’t even have a clear security policy or standard when it comes to use of the cloud by employees or departments, even though most allow such use including access to corporate data from cloud apps.
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SQL Server 2012 introduced several new analytic functions. We've published an excerpt from Murach's SQL Server 2012 for Developers by Bryan Syverson and Joel Murach that provides the syntax and example usage of these functions.
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Redwood Software released results this week from a survey of corporate “decision-makers” at 300 firms in the U.S. and UK that shows that nearly every enterprise (99 percent) spends “considerable personnel time doing repetitive manual tasks.” Nearly three-quarters of them (74 percent) spend “over a quarter of their time doing so.” That’s a lot of time wasted.
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Tracking down possible external causes of downtime is always tough. Compuware Corporation is trying to make it a bit easier.
This week the company announced a new, free, online performance analytics solution that it says “raises the intelligence of software-as-a-service (SaaS) application performance management (APM).” The service -- Outage Analyzer -- displays in real-time a map of outages and service degradation of third-party Web services applications around the world, detailing the scope of the problem, its duration, and an explanation of the probably cause of the outage. A separate view shows how the outage has spread or contracted over time, so you can, in essence, replay the problem’s history.
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