APT: A buzzword or an imminent threat? Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have become a major concern for IT security professionals around the world, and for good reason. Recent attacks targeting Canadian government officials, French government officials, RSA, and elements of the European Union have all been linked to APTs. But what exactly is an APT?
Information is a crucial part of any organisation. Mismanaged, it can slow you down and expose your business to security risks, fines and hidden costs. While most people acknowledge that information management is critical, few organisations have the time or in-house expertise to meet today’s needs. A trusted third party can store and manage your
Access to the right information at the right time transforms the work place. Mismanaged information can take a long time to find, reducing efficiency and customer satisfaction. The hidden costs of storing and retrieving information are rarely considered but can be significant. With IDC predicting an exponential increase in information, smart businesses should not delay
How records management can help your business Cluttered offices, information overload, compliance confusion and the need to cut costs – many businesses are struggling to control their information. A records management programme could make your information easier to access and much more secure. The challenge is knowing where to start. But what is a records
Cloud computing has been around in one form or another since the late 1990s. Salesforce.com is often credited with introducing the concept of delivering simple enterprise applications and services via the web. In the twenty years that have followed, everyone from Google to Microsoft have brought their own interpretation of the cloud model to market.
Cloud computing is all about delivering computing power when and where it’s needed—and not charging for a CPU cycle or watt more. Your customers want IT on tap: computing services streamed across the Internet into their businesses as easily and cost-effectively as electricity flows.
As businesses of every size rely more and more on their technology infrastructure to provide them with a competitive advantage, cloud computing and related technologies have emerged as potential game-changers. The most intense focus has been on finding ways to leverage cloud computing with minimum disruption to business processes and maximum return on investment. The
What began as a small San Francisco startup during the dot-com boom is today a thriving global enterprise that is transforming how software is delivered and used by a wide range of businesses. Salesforce.com is the leader in enterprise “cloud computing” services—sometimes known as software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).
IBM’s new zEnterprise 114 (z114) is a capacity reduced, cost reduced version of its popular System z196 mainframe designed to serve mid-market systems buyers. The z114 is based on the same z microprocessor core as the z196; it can access up to 256 GB of main memory (this includes 8 GB of fixed memory for
Over the past decade the trend in infrastructure design has been towards scale-out architectures based on the x86 processor, where many machines are clustered together in order to create a virtual mainframe. In this paper we set out to challenge this approach and to demonstrate that modern mainframe technology represents a viable scale-up alternative to