Business Computing World

Connecting The Cloud Universe

Nathan Bell — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:48:42 +0000

With Apple recently emerging onto the cloud landscape, we now have a wide range of players offering cloud services, with which we can do just about anything. The array of virtualisation technology required to deliver cloud computing has resulted in a complex mix of platforms serving different business requirements in what can now be called [...]

Mobile BYOD Security Can’t Be Ignored

Kevin Curran — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:28:41 +0000

Recent research from BT into BYOD policies revealed that although over four in five companies say they already allow BYOD or will do within the next 24 months, there are still significant security concerns, placing BYOD in the same threat league as cyber-security when it comes to corporate network risk. It is one thing for [...]

4 Key Steps To Building A Multi-Billion Pound Business Online

Mark Kirschner — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:14:23 +0000

The company I work for, Rakuten, is the world’s third largest online marketplace and its revenues top one trillion yen – over seven billion pounds. As we seek to grow our overseas businesses to contribute 70 per cent of all Rakuten Group revenue, our success hinges on the tens of thousands of merchants globally. Whereas [...]

Home And Dry In The ‘Bring Your Own’ Deluge

Glyn Owen — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:40:00 +0000

The steady stream of personal devices making their way into the enterprise is showing no signs of slowing. Employees are hailing the efficiency benefits and advanced functionality of their increasingly sophisticated personal devices, preferring to use them in place of enterprise provisioned IT. There are obvious advantages to this for the enterprise. Using their own [...]

You Cannot Defend Against What You Cannot See

Mark Hatton — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:29:02 +0000

The greatest risk your organisation can take in the face of modern threats is to be complacent. It’s no longer acceptable to merely react to incidents and threats. Instead, your organisation has to go on the offensive: pre-empting attacks rather than waiting to deal with their aftermath. Predictive Security Intelligence Can Preempt an Attack Executives [...]

What’s Going On In Your IT Infrastructure?

Aidan Simister — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:58:46 +0000

There is increasing pressure on organisations to strengthen their information security, increase monitoring capabilities and prove to stakeholders, auditors and regulators that they really know what’s going on in their IT Infrastructures. Yet, the reality is that many organisations are still taking a fire-fighting approach to these challenges and only act after an event has [...]

How To Keep Track Of Your Customers Using Google Alerts

Matthew Stibbe — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:53:59 +0000

If you are a human being who uses computers, you’ve probably used Google as a web search engine, probably even given into the temptation to Google yourself. It’s less likely that you have used the power of Google to its full benefit if you have a business. Let the beauty of automation do the work [...]

5 Reasons Why Good Website Navigation Is Vital

Eddie Yu — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:29:15 +0000

Take a quick moment to reflect on some of the best-looking, most popular websites you’ve ever visited. If you had to name a few reasons why they were so popular, you probably wouldn’t think about big-dollar marketing campaigns or teams of designers and SEO experts working to promote the site through the ranks. Instead, you [...]

Click, Touch, Wave, Talk: The User Interface Of The Future

Dharmesh Mistry — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:45:36 +0000

First there was the Character User Interface (CUI, pronounced cooo-eey) typified by green letters on a black background screen. Then the Graphical User Interface (GUI, pronounced goo-eey) came along with a mouse and icons. Pen interfaces existed in the era of GUI, but now smartphones and tablets are driving many more interaction approaches using touch [...]

4 Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started My Career

Len Fehskens — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:22:30 +0000

It being the time of year for commencement speeches, Patty Donovan asked if I could offer some advice to graduates entering the Enterprise Architecture profession. She specifically asked what three things I wished I had known when I began my career, and it’s impossible to resist the setup. I wish I had known: What stocks [...]

UNIX Is Still As Relevant As Ever

Andrew Josey — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:58:22 +0000

Despite being as old as man landing on the moon, the UNIX operating system is still as relevant today as it was in 1969. UNIX is older than the PC, microprocessor and video display at 43. In fact, few software technologies since have since proved more durable or adaptable than the UNIX operating system. The [...]

Research: Forget Development, Focus On Data!

Adrian Bridgwater — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:05:58 +0000

Serena Software has announced the results of a global survey of nearly 1,000 IT professionals focused on IT trends and outlooks pertaining to application development practices and the wider impact that they have on data, software release management and IT assets as a whole. In summary, the research finds that application development is going well [...]

Dispelling The Myths Surrounding Electronic Payments

Adrian Stafford-Jones — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:50:42 +0000

Over the past few years, organisations across the board have streamlined processes and gained significant cost efficiencies. They have also embraced electronic payments in their many guises, from Bacs through Faster Payments to Direct Debits. Yet in the vast majority of organisations, those tasked with payroll, managing expenses, paying suppliers and collecting money from customers [...]

Social Networks Add New Life To The Corporate Website

Russell Loarridge — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:35:55 +0000

When you look at the value of social networks, it becomes immediately obvious that while there is a new ecosystem in which to operate, the fundamentals of interaction remain unchanged. An organisation’s objective should always be to engage a user on the corporate website with content, products, services or other key parts of the site. [...]

4 Reasons Your Organisation Needs Hosted Email Security

Emmanuel Carabott — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:22:53 +0000

Email admins have several options when it comes to protecting their users from spam, malware, and phishing attempts. The one I’m going to look at in this article is hosted email security. Hosted email security is a growing player in the cloud services space, and there are some great reasons why this might be the [...]