How to Win CFO Friends and Influence Business People
April 22, 2009Conventional wisdom and decades' worth of IT project failures and less-than-desirable outcomes tell us that every tech-related investment-from a massive SAP ERP rollout to a small Salesforce.com SaaS CRM deployment-comes with some amount of risk.
Nokia: We don't know why criminals want our old phones
April 22, 2009The mystery of why cybercriminals are offering thousands of dollars for a discontinued Nokia phone isn't getting any clearer.
Criminals pay top money for hackable Nokia phone
April 20, 2009Criminals are willing to pay thousands of euros for a discontinued Nokia mobile phone with a software problem that can be exploited to hack into online bank accounts, according to a fraud investigator in the Netherlands.
 Smart. It's the new speed. Introducing the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series. It adapts to low workloads so you and your servers can use less energy. That’s the new IT intelligence. See why information technology is now intelligent technology. www.intel.com/business/xeon/index.htm |
Pirates to Worry You: Chinese Manufacturing Partners
April 17, 2009Somali pirates who brazenly attacked container ships in the Indian Ocean have garnered a lot of recent attention. But for companies that source products from Chinese manufacturing partners, there are even greater and longer-term business risks due to pirating attacks on companies' intellectual property and supply chains.
Backblaze now offers unlimited Mac backups for $5 a month
April 15, 2009Online backup service Backblaze announced today that it has customized its service for Apple computer users and is offering unlimited data backups for $5 a month.
Smart. It's the new speed. Introducing the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series. It adapts to low workloads so you and your servers can use less energy. That’s the new IT intelligence. See why information technology is now intelligent technology. www.intel.com/business/xeon/index.htm |
BlackBerry Web e-mail users experience three-hour outage
April 15, 2009BlackBerry consumer and small business users around the U.S. were stranded for about three hours on Monday when their Web-based e-mail service blacked out.
Unforeseen Impact of the Economic Meltdown
April 9, 2009Without question, 2008 was an eventful year for major financial institutions, with massive losses, questions of solvency and, ultimately, government bailouts now totaling over a trillion dollars. The corporate fire sales, downsizing and mergers now commonplace in the financial industry are a cause for not only serious concern about the health of our economy, but also concerns relating to the security of personal and financial data. With companies being sold and mergers taking place, and on such tight deadlines, mistakes regarding the confidentiality and privacy of the data are likely being made every day. Significant risk is increasing for personally identifiable information entrusted to these firms.
More Disaster Recovery News
April 7, 2009View more Disaster Recovery news and analysis from Computerworld.com
Quake has Italians reaching to YouTube, mobile services
April 7, 2009An earthquake in the Italian region of Abruzzo had victims and observers communicating through emergency use of mobile devices and reaching out for help and information via Facebook and YouTube.
AmeriVault-NTG merger produces Venyu, a storage services provider
April 7, 2009Backup provider AmeriVault and managed services vendor Network Technology Group have combined to form Venyu, which will provide a combination of services from the two companies through one interface.