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Data Leakage: Good Intentions Can Go Bad

Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes worldwide. Take the US for example; it is now occurring every 79 seconds and has become the fastest growing crime in America. In light of the safety net available in technology to mitigate the risk of unintended …

Hyperion Snap Up: Oracle Driving Consolidation in BI

After spending nearly USD 20 billion over the past three years to acquire more than 25 software companies, Oracle's Chief Executive Larry Ellison is still hungry for more. After a quarter's gap of silence on acquisitions, the Redwood Shores company added performance management software solutions company …

Enabling "Real World SOA"

Organisations are increasingly reliant on their IT infrastructure to help drive success. But in an increasingly competitive marketplace, capitalising on new business opportunities means moving fast. However, a lack of integration among IT assets—systems, applications and data—makes it difficult for IT to respond quickly and effectively …

Data Replication to the Rescue

Every analytic application, reporting function, Web service, back-up and disaster recovery system, and client application depends on the rapid, accurate availability of data. Most organizations now need instantaneous access to real-time data, in fact, to meet business goals and maintain high customer service levels. That means …

Key Technologies Shaping the Digital Lifestyle

The end user in the Digital Lifestyle era will be connected 24/7. Downloading music, movies, and television series from service providers seamlessly over the Internet in a mere few minutes would be possible. Remotely instructing your home system to record your favourite television program using a …

Transforming Information into Valuable Business Assets

Introduction While information is oft described as the lifeblood of business, the sheer volume of data generated in the course of everyday work makes the analogy of knowledge workers drowning in an ocean of information a more apt one. Indeed, data volumes are growing at such …

Is Symantec's Vision for Security 2.0 the Real One?

During the Security 2.0 event in New York in late October this year, Symantec's John W. Thompson, Enrique Salem, and Jeremy Burton presented a vision for protecting customers from the next generation of threats targeting their information and interactions. While Security 2.0 was first mentioned during …

Debunking the Common Myths of High Availability

IntroductionErroneous messaging has led many IT managers to believe that clustering applies only to missioncritical applications. The truth is that if your organization cannot tolerate even minutes of planned or unplanned downtime for its business-critical applications, there are powerful high availability solutions within economic reach. They …

The Service Desk of the Future

Look around any Fortune 1000 organization and you'll find a variety of service desks and/or help desks for both employees and external customers. Perhaps you'll see one or more IT help desks – one for logging routine HR matters, one for logging manufacturing defects, and another …

Middlesourcing: The New BPO Buzzword

Middlesourcing is a term that helps to illustrate how firms in Singapore and SE Asia can benefit from the technology waves in China and India, and create a new niche area for business. As a regional hub (with similar time zones with that of India and …