A new survey of 478 security professionals and C-level executives reveals that IT security pros are responding to increased network traffic by turning off functionality in their security solutions.
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Cloud has caught on, according to a new survey, but most enterprises are taking it slow. A new report from Gatepoint Research and commissioned by ScienceLogic found that although 79 percent of 100 executives (most from large enterprises) responding to its survey are running some part of their production applications in the cloud, 64 percent of all respondents are running no more than a quarter of them with that technology.
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Looking for innovative directions and ideas for your software projects? Just ask kids. They’ll tell you that the future lies in better integration of digital experiences with the real world and “more intuitive, human-like interactions with devices, such as those provided by fluid interfaces or robots.”
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What data protection issues and trends are the most important to enterprise IT pros? According to a new survey from Sepaton, a data protection provider, disaster recovery and regulatory compliance topped the list, a shift from “improve disaster recovery,” 2010’s top issue. “Data will be unrecoverable in the event of a disaster” and “Regulatory compliance issues (retention, restore, etc.)” were the top backup/data protection fears.
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Sure, we all know that downtime harms meeting our service-level agreements, but how do you quantify downtime's costs? CA Technologies sponsored a survey of CIOs, IT directors and managers, COOs, and operations directors in North American and European enterprises to understand and measure the consequences of downtime.
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Although cybercrime research reveals “widespread vulnerability to phishing in virtually all business sectors nationwide,” new research has identified five industries where employees are most likely to click on links in phishing e-mail messages. What’s even more chilling is how successful this thankfully benign attack was.
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The CDW 2011 Cloud Computing Tracking Poll released this week asked 1200 IT professionals about their use of cloud computing, what’s driving its adoption (and what factors are impeding progress), the benefits expected and realized from the technology, and their cloud plans for the future.
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Although large enterprises seem to “get” what cloud computing is and the benefits it offers, the message hasn’t reached small businesses yet. In this month’s SB Authority Market Sentiment Survey released yesterday, of about 1,800 respondents, only 29 percent admitted they knew or had ever heard of cloud computing.
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