Honeywell launches app control and whitelisting soln

Honeywell has announced application control and whitelisting solution to help combat viruses and malware from attacking its Process Knowledge System (PKS), a control system platform. Whitelisting is an important tool that protects from unwanted intrusions by permitting only applications and executable files that are considered safe and on an approved list to run, while blocking everything else.... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Against All Risks

The refrain that an organisations information or data security can only be as strong as its weakest linkthe people, has now percolated across the IT establishment. True to the dictum, trends observed in the security market now show that the IT heads or CISOs no longer hold the security reins in the organisation. All security-related controls, be it the risks involved, the emerging threats or the... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Can You Secure the Cloud?

THE SITUATION... Is Kunal Joshi in a position to secure all applications on-premise and on cloud via closer relationships with his cloud provider? Joshi and his business group do not deny the benefits of cloud computing which include cost savings, elasticity and agility. However, for Joshi, a senior IT manager with a large manufacturing company, these benefits are not enough to move entirely to... By sanjay.gupta gupta

HP launches performance mgmt soln for converged cloud

HP has announced new software that helps clients improve performance management of cloud and mobile applications by enhancing mobile monitoring and increasing collaboration between operations and development teams. These new features help organizations adopt a new set of software delivery practices DevOps for the continuous delivery of high-quality applications. HP Application Performance... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Cyber criminals use Olympics as bait

Cyber criminals are known as opportunists. They will take advantage of anything newsworthy and craft their schemes around (for example) sporting events like FIFA and the Olympics. As the London 2012 Olympics opening event draws near, Trend Micro Researchers have spotted some spammed messages using the 2012 Olympics as bait, one involved an email that says winning notification, another message... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Global IT outsourcing services spend to cross $251 billion in 2012

Worldwide spending for IT outsourcing (ITO) services is on pace to reach $251.7 billion in 2012, a 2.1 percent increase from 2011 spending of $246.6 billion, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. The fastest-growing segment within the ITO market is cloud compute services, which is part of the cloud-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) segment. Cloud compute services are expected... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Over 150% performance improvement in unified threat mgmt

WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in manageable business security solutions, has announced a ground-breaking change for the unified threat management (UTM) market with the release of the New WatchGuard XTM 5 Series network security appliances. As next-generation UTMs, the New WatchGuard XTM 5 Series sports the fastest throughput in its price class without sacrificing security efficacy,... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Knowing the Numbers

While effective communication is critical to the success of every business, understanding finance and financial terms is equally vital. For IT managers whose activities primarily revolve around IT, internal or external, understanding their organisations financial goals and business strategy is a very important and fundamental component of their job. The mark of the most successful technical or... By sanjay.gupta gupta

David Taylor: Mobile is Driving Cloud Testing

David Taylor, President of Asia Pacific & Japan, Micro Focus, talks to Varun Aggarwal of CTO Forum about the mainframe business in India and how COBOL is no more restricted to the platform. Do you see new COBOL deployments in India, apart from upgrade and migration? Yes, but a lot of the time it gets done by our partners. For example, TCS banking application, which is written on Micro... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Speeding up the Cloud

HP has introduced new offerings that improve visibility into the relationship between software and physical, virtual and cloud IT infrastructure. The new HP Configuration Management System (CMS) 10 enables organizations to reduce complexity and take control of their IT processes and services. It includes new HP Universal Discovery software, which offers automated discovery capabilities to... By sanjay.gupta gupta

$2.1 Trillion: Global consumer spending on tech in 2012

Consumers will spend $2.1 trillion worldwide on digital information and entertainment products and services in 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. This amounts to a $114 billion global increase compared with 2011, and spending will continue to grow at a faster rate than in the past, at around $130 billion a year, to reach $2.7 trillion by the end of 2016. The $2.1 trillion consists of what the... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Refuse to use Social Media for communication? It could HARM you!

As familiarity with social media grows, customers' expectations about how organizations will use these channels are evolving, according to Gartner, Inc. By 2014, organizations that refuse to communicate with customers by social media will face the same level of wrath from customers as those that ignore today's basic expectation that they will respond to emails and phone calls. For organizations... By sanjay.gupta gupta