The most recent Aberdeen Business Review surveyed more than 1,300 respondents, 15% of whom represent small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) based in Europe, the Middle-East and Africa (EMEA). About half of the respondents were line-of-business managers and executives and the other half represented various levels of IT. The CIO and other IT decision-makers working in
Organizations today have two critical imperatives: they must enable their business to ensure agility and growth, but they must also protect their business from breach or information loss. Historically, this has been a tradeoff – more security often impeded productivity and growth, while increased enablement reduced security and increased risk. This is an unacceptable tradeoff.
One of the most widely deployed applications in use today, Microsoft® SharePoint® Server has earned its place as the enterprise content management (ECM) and collaboration system of choice by delivering a rich user experience and robust functionality. But the same quality that makes SharePoint so ubiquitous – its ability to coordinate global teams and facilitate
Just when organizations in both the private and public sectors were getting a handle on how to protect their sensitive data, the era of social networking arrived on the scene, bringing with it a slew of capabilities that could put sensitive data at risk. Despite the risk, there is tremendous value that these collaborative communication
Managing the identities and access rights of those inside and outside the enterprise has become a primary concern for IT organizations today. Reducing IT risk, meeting regulatory requirements, and increasing efficiencies are all central to your business. At the same time, you need to develop new and innovative ways of expanding your business, as well
Organizations are facing a unique combination of market pressures including a heightened urgency for IT departments to do more with less while helping the business remain agile enough to take advantage of market opportunities. Meanwhile, security concerns abound with growing and increasingly diverse sets of users, applications and access methods. The question facing many is,
In a virtual environment, the security challenges multiply rapidly and introduce new risks. Where an organization might have had a single application server in the past, in a virtual environment they could see that quickly evolve to thirty servers. How can security, such as segregation of duties for privileged users, be enabled, not only on
An increasingly common trend in commercial organizations and government agencies of all sizes is “telework” – enabling employees and contractors to work remotely on a part-time or full-time basis. These teleworking employees and contractors need: • A reliable and secure work experience when away from the corporate office and when working on their personal or
Remote work is becoming increasingly important for organizations that are attempting to drive down their costs and to become more agile by enabling employees to work from any location – at home, at customers’ sites, in remote offices, etc. Moreover, the US and other governments have become significant proponents of the telework concept as a
The MacBook Air is one of the hottest selling notebook computers and is landing in the hands of corporate executives and travel prone users at an amazing pace. Add to that the latest MacBooks, iMacs and Mac Pros and you get unprecedented growth of Mac computers in what was once the Windows dominated enterprise. Analyst