A survey released today commissioned by Symantec examined responses from 2,453 organizations in 32 countries to learn how IT organizations are coping with managing their data centers. From security to disaster recovery, server maintenance to managing mobile devices, there’s no shortage of work for a data center manager.
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Maintaining the best security is tough, with more applications running in the cloud, hackers getting more creative, and regulatory penalties increasing. What’s a security manager to do?
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A study by Fortinet Research shows that it’s “smarter” to move to a new operating system than to maintain an older version. That could be especially relevant now given that support for Windows XP will end in April, 2014 -- which isn’t that far away.
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There’s some good news for security administrators. In the latest Symantec Intelligence Report, the company compared breaches in the last 8 months of 2011 with those occurring in the first 8 months of this year. Overall, the number of breaches stayed about the same but the average number of identities stolen per breach is down by almost half.
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If your budget is tight, but you have extra hard disk space that’s not being used, Symform has a backup plan with an attractive price.
The company announced today that it will now accept bucks or bytes when paying for its service. Not only can this cut costs, but it’s infinitely simpler than many competitors’ complex licensing plans that boggle the mind and make it more difficult to figure out what your monthly or annual charges are going to be.
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If you think the patchwork of state data-breach notification laws is confusing, you’re not alone. Fortunately, Imation Corp. -- a scalable storage and data security company -- has collected and examined information from a variety of publicly available sites (such as the National Conference of State Legislatures) as well as analysis from two law firms, and consolidated its analysis into a compliance heat map, available at www.imation.com/compliancemap. (You’ll also find a link to the combined compliance map and state scores and rankings there.)
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Why do programmers sometimes struggle to write programs? What’s getting in the way isn’t likely the programmer’s grasp of language semantics. V. Anton Spraul has been teaching programming for over 15 years. In his new book, Think Like a Programmer, Spraul says the problem is more likely that the missing skill is problem-solving -- that is, “the ability to take a given problem description and write an original program to solve it.”
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The more data you have, the larger your data backup and recovery concerns. How are large enterprises meeting these challenges?
In its fourth annual survey, Sepaton asked 93 IT professionals in North America and Europe about their data protection issues and concerns as well as their expectations about future big data backups.
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