Security update: Biometrics, cloudy passwords and the ongoing Android vs Apple debate
Last month’s launch of iOS 7 and the iPhone 5s raised a lot of questions for the mobile security industry. Will biometrics catch on ...
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Why 2014 is the year when the customer becomes your financial advisor
Analysts are agreed that organisations are likely to have more money available for IT purchases in 2014. The challenge is to make sure that they’re investing for the right reasons: not just making investments which achieve a fast ROI, increase agility, contain costs or solve a short-term problem, or even in those areas of IT which increase productivity. They’re all perfectly valid reasons to invest, but the truly smart business of 2014 will firstly identify the customers’ evolving needs, then invest in the technology to address them.
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How is enterprise mobility rollout taking shape in the UK?
A research report from IFS has revealed that enterprise mobility schemes are happening “quickly” in the UK because of business benefits – with security concerns often being overlooked. The report, which covered 200 UK-based CIOs and IT managers, focused on the state of enterprise mobility, why companies are investing – or not – and the most popular applications used.
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PC shipments fall off a cliff in 2013, but will that be the death knell?
Rumours of the PC’s death are not greatly exaggerated, according to the latest predictions from IDC – but after a huge drop this year things will stabilise. In figures published earlier this week, worldwide PC shipments are expected to fall by 10.1% as 2013 ends – a worse figure than the original forecast of 9.7% fall-off. Worldwide total PC sales in 2012 were at 349.4m, with the figure this year falling to 314.2m. For desktop PCs, that number dropped from 148.3m to 135.6m.
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New BlackBerry CEO Chen: “We are very much alive, thank you”
Incoming BlackBerry CEO John Chen has published an open letter to enterprise customers detailing the company’s enterprise mobility management (EMM) and mobile device management (MDM) solutions as key to BlackBerry’s future. “Our ‘for sale’ sign has been taken down and we are here to stay,” Chen wrote.
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Proactive protection will be needed to address the cyber-security time bomb
Systems safety is a position that continues to be threatened by security attacks ranging from opportunistic hackers using pre-built tools through to targeted, well-resourced, state-sponsored cyber activity. Keeping data and users protected is an increasingly important business imperative.
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BYOD usage up 500% at Transport for London since 2010
The number of BYOD devices used by Transport for London (TfL) employees has gone up fivefold since 2010, according to a Freedom of Information Request – yet the number of activated devices between 2012 and 2013 hit a plateau. The data, which was obtained by network automation provider Infoblox, found that Apple devices were by far the most popular among TfL staff, with iPhones and iPads being the two most used.
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Five enterprise and CIO lessons from the BlackBerry decade
BlackBerry changed the world. It made wireless email a killer app that every salesperson and travelling executive absolutely needed to have to get their work done. It gave us devices with batteries that lasted a full week, connectivity that made email feel real-time even over very slow networks, and a user experience that everyone LOVED. And, for IT, BlackBerry established a standard of security that protected even the most sensitive information with comprehensive policy support from a central management console. But the world changed.
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Salesforce and the banking industry align as both bet on mobility
For bankers, mobility has become key. Customer-facing mobile banking applications are increasing the flow of traffic through digital channels, which is eroding traffic in bank branches. But it does not stop there: the mobile-enablement of services to increase the productivity of banking employees and drive sales effectiveness in remote locations is also on the rise.
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How has the enterprise network evolved? [infographic]
The corporate network used to trundle along nicely – but with corporate device policies, not to mention the ever increasing amounts of data, enterprise networks are straining under the pressure. It’s becoming more prevalent from the end user perspective too. With users more comfortable in performing sophisticated operations on their tablets such as editing and publishing, the tide has irrevocably turned. But it wasn’t always that way.
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Why Salesforce1 ramps up a new PaaS era of enterprise apps
Salesforce’s strategy is for Salesforce1 to fuel “a golden age in enterprise apps” by acting as a platform upon which both enterprise customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) can develop and run new apps that are fully integrated into the Salesforce user experience. This heralds a new platform-as-a-service era for enterprise applications.
