Most Businesses Will Be Talking About Big Data, Not Doing It

Decision making is distributed throughout the organization and these ‘micro decisions’ are important to the overall success of the business. The potential benefits to these organizations are huge if we give more people self-service data discovery tools to explore data and collaborate on their insights, says Donald Farmer, vice president of innovation and design, Qlik.    1... By IT NEXT

Why the Application Economy Demands a New Approach to Security

Protection is still the main driver for security, but a new study released today reveals that organizations understand the application economy demands a new view and approach to security. The study, sponsored by CA Technologies shows how mobility, APIs and an eye toward growing the business have brought a balanced view of control and enablement to security.   “Today we need to live... By

Android Is the Most Vulnerable Mobile Operating System

Along with the alarming growth of the user base for Android run handsets around the globe, it has also become the most vulnerable mobile OS. This is evident from the fact that many popular apps such as Dropbox, Snapchat, and Uber have been hacked in recent times, said Wegilant, an emerging mobile apps security company. The open nature of Android OS has given rise to Android Security Bugs,... By IT NEXT

Is Big Data Technology Finally Gaining Traction?

Why Energy Industry Is Becoming More Progressive in Big Data Energy has traditionally been very conservative in adopting new forms of IT, but the resistance to change has already started softening Open Source in Big Data is Gaining Traction Without big data, most IT Heads of E-Commerce firms would be headless chickens GCPL Transforming Data Analysis into Winning Decisions Deployed 11... By IT NEXT

20% of the Indian Workforce Will Access Enterprise Data on Personal Devices

By 2017, twenty per cent of the white-collar workforce in India will access enterprise data (beyond email and calendar) on personal devices, according to Gartner. By 2020, at least two-thirds of large Indian enterprises will have established an Internet of Things (IoT) center of excellence to drive adoption of efficiency-centric technologies and applications. By 2018, India will have at least... By

9 IT Managers Who Founded their Own Companies

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HDFC Securities Launches Mobile Trading

HDFC Securities announced it teamed with IBM to launch a new mobile app that allows clients to securely trade stocks, track and manage portfolios and market movements, as well as analyze industry research and trends. India is the second largest mobile market in the world with 762 million subscribers. As smartphone use in India continues to rise, organizations are increasing their focus on... By IT NEXT

State of the Internet Security Report 2014

DOWNLOAD the report from the link given below. Highlights: Compared to Q4 2013 57 percent more DDoS attacks 52 percent increase in average peak bandwidth 51 percent more application layer attacks 58 percent more infrastructure layer attacks 28 percent increase in average attack duration 84 percent more multi-vector attacks Highlights: Compared to Q3 2014 90 percent more DDoS... By IT NEXT

New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit

Trend Micro researchers have discovered a new zero-day critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-0313) affecting all versions of Adobe Flash Player on Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OSX. Researchers have identified active attacks using malicious advertisements or “malvertisements” against Microsoft Windows systems. This vulnerability has been confirmed by Adobe and the two companies are... By

How Banca Popolare di Milano Manages Its Growing Transactions

BPM employs approximately 9,000 people who provide some 1.3 million customers with a range of retail, investment and private banking services, through a network of 768 branches and an online banking service called WeBank. To support its core banking operations, BPM has trusted the reliability and performance of IBM System z servers for many years, running critical systems on two IBM zEnterprise... By IT NEXT

How Big Data, IoT, and Mobility Impacted Businesses in 2014

A. Big Data Offers Competitive Differentiation How Big Data Can be the New Competitive Advantage! Soon there will be companies of data scientists who will get you actionable insights for your business right from your data sets Tesco Employs Big Data to Sell Better One way is to review data collected from the point of sale, club card loyalty memberships, and social media channels aligned with... By Mastufa Ahmed

10 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2015

1. Exploit mitigations reduce the number of useful vulnerabilities: Cybercriminals have for years feasted on Microsoft Windows. Fortunately, Microsoft has invested in exploit mitigations, which makes writing attack code more difficult. As the difficulty of exploitation increases, some attackers are moving back to social engineering, and we also see attackers focusing on non-Microsoft platforms... By