Hosted data centers have become a common avenue for enterprises to access and deliver IT services, but they’re also a hit with cyber criminals.
According to a recent report by ThreatMatrix, there is a correlation between top U.S. cities for online fraud and those that are home to hosted data centers, with Tampa, Fla. topping the list, followed by New York. Major U.S. cities rounding out the top 10 included Los Angeles, Atlanta and Chicago. [Read the full story on IT World Canada]
Windows 10 is here, and there’s no shortage of help available from Microsoft partners willing to help enterprises make the transition.
Just as the new operating system hit the market, HP was one company who announced a slew of tools aimed at helping organizations make the move. Its portfolio of services include the HP Test Drive Services for Windows 10, HP Transformation Services for Windows 10, HP Roadmap Service for Windows 10, and the HP WebApp Accelerator Service for Internet Explorer 11. [Read the full story on IT World Canada]
Enterprises are hungry for wireless bandwidth, and upgrading access points to 802.11ac is not enough.
According to a forecast recently released by Dell’Oro Group, the overall Wireless LAN market will hit a market high of almost US$13 billion in 2019 – more than 30 per cent growth over 2015 revenues, in part because it’s become easier for IT departments to deploy more WiFi access, according to Chris DePuy, VP at Dell’Oro. “We’ve seen exceptional unit growth for wireless LAN access points in the past few years.” [Read the full story on IT World Canada]
The paperless office might be saving trees, but connectivity may or may not be saving IT departments money. As workers become more mobile and connected wireless through multiple devices, there’s certainly money to be saved on cabling, but what about devices and peripherals? [Read the full story on IT World Canada]
IBM is putting data warehousing into the cloud. Having formally launched IBM Cloud Data Services earlier this year, the company has been pulling together a broad proud portfolio of services, including the integration of Cloudant, a database-as-a-service provider it acquired in March 2014.
DashDB Enterprise MPP (massive parallel processing), is the first new major product for IBM Cloud Data Services, and uses in-memory technology to speed up analysis. It is a fully managed data warehouse that the company said gives an enterprises a method of analyzing their operations without requiring the resources to running something on-premise; customers can use it to either extend on-premises data warehouses to the cloud or build new, self-service cloud warehousing infrastructure. [Read the full story on IT World Canada]
A great deal of the discussion of drones has revolved around the privacy, safety and security of the general public, but as new applications surface for their use, the talk is shifting to how their deployment affects IT departments.
According to recent research released by Tractica, companies, universities, and government agencies are all actively assessing the opportunity for drones to disrupt some industries and create innovative business models in others. The two primary application markets in the commercial drone sector are aerial im
aging and data analysis. [Read the full story on IT World Canada]
A recent survey found that, surprisingly, a majority of users were satisfied with their IT help desk. Now a new report from Software Advice suggests the primary driver for updating help desk software is that organizations see customer service as an area in which they can gain competitive advantage. However, the report also found that Canadian organizations are more likely to be still making the move from manual systems. [Read the full story on IT World Canada]
Toronto’s Centennial College has become an early adopter of mobile investigative software as part of its Police Foundations curriculum.
Starting in the fall, students will be able install SceneDoc on their smartphone or tablet, allowing them to complete electronic paperwork, create scene drawings, add multimedia files and take notes, either through text or voice dictation. [Read the full story on IT World Canada]
The NVM Express Work Group has decided to incorporate itself to further the NVM Express (NVMe) specification for accessing solid-state disks (SSDs) on a PCI Express (PCIe) bus. NVMe is a standardized register interface, command, and feature set for PCIe-based storage technologies such as SSDs, designed specifically for non-volatile memory. It is optimized for high performance and low latency, scaling from client to enterprise segments. Read Full Article.
As DDR4 awaits widespread adoption and new technologies such as hybrid memory cube continue to be fleshed out, there remains opportunity to improve on DDR3’s performance, and more importantly, its design and manufacturing. Last week, Samsung announced it was mass producing what the company said is the most advanced 4Gb DDR3 memory based on a new 20 nanometer process technology using immersion ArF lithography. Read Full Article.