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Size doesn’t matter, it’s how you manage what you’ve got that counts

Information overload, data explosion and big data – terms we are now reading about on a daily basis. It’s no secret that the amount of information that businesses are dealing with today is huge, so huge in fact that the actual size is still difficult to grasp. But what does this mean to businesses today [...]

Value your business. Value your data.

How do you manage your data? Research shows that businesses produce 2.2 zettabytes of information each year. To put this into context, if this data was available as one page documents then you could fill the Empire State Building 1,287 times. Coping with such a huge amount of data doesn’t just call security processes into [...]

The dog days are over – time to change those pet-based passwords

It seems that not a week goes by without the media reporting another instance of a data breach. More often than not it is of user’s passwords becoming compromised. Given that a password is very often the last line of defence against an intrusion into our personal data, the risk that this presents cannot be [...]

Information? …It’s Gonna Cost Ya

It has nothing to do with the size of your inbox or shared drive or whether your competitive edge stems from a specific design blueprint or a secret ingredient. It could be that you have and need to keep reams and reams of customer information or maybe you simply have unique insight into a few [...]

Do not miss the warning signs – be prepared

It’s not just the Ukrainians and the Polish that are seeing a surge in demand as the Euro Championships take place. Here at Symantec, we have noticed some curious spikes in data usage, around the time of key games. For instance, our data processing centres saw a 20% uplift in week on week user traffic [...]

Sporting Events, Your Employees and Web Policies

The sports sections of newspapers are a must read for many people. Keeping up to date with the latest results is very important for some; and during major sporting events something in which almost everyone takes an interest. The internet has dramatically increased the desire for the latest news and commentary, allowing individuals unprecedented and [...]

Preparing for the unexpected

Our latest Symantec 2012 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey found that SMBs are increasingly planning and implementing virtualisation, cloud computing and mobility – a strategic IT trend we typically associate with larger enterprise businesses. It seems that SMBs are becoming more aware of the threat that a break in business could pose to the company and, as a [...]

Spam is decreasing. Is it the beginning of the end for e-mail?

When was the last time that you received an e-mail offering you a discount on pharmaceutical products? If you are using a corporate e-mail system or one of the larger Internet e-mail providers, the chances are it was a while ago. And yet until recently over 90% of e-mail sent was spam. This is something [...]

Taming the tablet

Without question, the iPad has been the most disruptive piece of technology released within the last decade for businesses. The speed of its uptake has surprised everybody, and its uptake in boardrooms and amongst senior executives has dramatically changed the workplace. In business meetings and conferences across the world an exec will turn up with [...]

Free Wifi: Why do we trust it?

Imagine walking along a street on a sunny day. You’re thirsty and, sitting on a table outside a cafe, there is an ice cold, open bottle of beer. Would you pick it up and drink it? Probably not. Most of us would resist the temptation because we don’t know where it’s been or who’s already [...]