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  • 11 October 2011

  • News: Don't get carried away by Hadoop's 'gee whiz' factor

    Companies should take a pragmatic approach to implementing Hadoop for their "big data" requirements, a new report released Tuesday by analyst firm Forrester Research urges.

  • Opinion: Banking regulations...in Kenya?

    Northeastern Africa has seen governments overthrown amid massive media coverage, while South Africa successfully hosted the World Cup. But there's an enormous land mass in between, and technology is starting to make a difference in some countries.

  • News: Cable group fears members will be left out of broadband fund

    A U.S. Federal Communications Commission plan to redirect telephone subsidies to rural areas to broadband deployment could leave out cable-based voice and broadband providers, a cable trade group said Tuesday.

  • News: The new mainstream

    IT directors share pointers on managing the myriad challenges of supporting remote users and staff who want to use their favourite devices at work.

  • News: News from the Red Zone

    The Press published an edition the day after Christchurch's February quake. With communications compromised, residents were even more reliant on news, but the paper's IT team has its own stories of resilience in the face of adversity.--

  • News: Security on a shoestring budget

    According to figures released recently by Kaspersky Lab, 1300 IT pros were asked about IT risks and security spending. Among large companies, the average security budget is $3.35 million, according to Kaspersky's data.

  • Opinion: Copy Mail's autocomplete database to a new Mac

    You've just started using a brand-new Mac. You launch Mail.app and start to compose an email to a friend. That's when it hits you: You haven't yet sent any messages on the new machine, so Mail.app hasn't had any addresses to remember, so it can't autocomplete your friend's address when you begin to type his name. Drat! Fortunately, as Marco Arment recently blogged, there's a way to copy Mail.app's autocomplete database from your old setup to your new one. (Marco also happens to be the developer of Macworld favorite Instapaper.)

  • News: Career Watch: Hot career: Data scientist

    Q&A: Anjul Bhambhri

  • News: Toronto's Platform Computing acquired by IBM

    IBM on Monday added to its long list of Canadian software acquisitions with the purchase of Platform Computing, a company whose ability to manage "grids" of computing workloads will help Big Blue make gains in the cloud computing market.

  • News: Extending the life of your data center

    This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 1,200-square-foot data center at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering -- that means the facility has been operating three years longer than CIO and vice president of operations Joanne Kossuth had originally planned. Now, even though the school needs a facility with more capacity and better connectivity, Kossuth has been forced to back-burner the issue because of the iffy economic times.

  • News: Experts explain greatest threats to cloud security

    Cloud security threats come in all shapes and sizes, so we asked eight experts to weigh in on what they see as the top threat to cloud security. The answers run the gamut, but in all cases, our cloud security panelists believe that these threats can be addressed.

  • News: Study: Many websites 'leaking' personal info to other firms

    Many top websites share their visitors' names, usernames or other personal information with their partners without telling users and, in some cases, without knowing they're doing it, according to a new study from Stanford University.

  • News: JetBlue supports iPhone -- as long as it's the employee's device

    Over the past several years, JetBlue has transformed itself from a traditional IT infrastructure with multiple data centers run by its employees to an almost completely outsourced model with virtual everything, from desktops to servers.

  • News: FairSearch.org urges AGs to tackle Google over antitrust

    FairSearch.org, a coalition of companies critical of Google's business practices, is urging all 50 U.S. state attorneys general to investigate the search giant over possible antitrust violations.

  • News: BlackBerry outage totally unexplained

    RIM has failed to make public the cause of yesterday's huge BlackBerry outage, which hit many small businesses and consumers who rely on the service.

  • News: 5 cloud security companies to watch

    Security is one of the major impediments to enterprises moving their resources into the cloud. So, it's not surprising that numerous cloud security companies are springing up, attempting to address specific cloud security issues, like protecting virtual machines or encrypting data in motion.

  • News: 4 essential cloud security tips

    More and more enterprise IT shops - as they get comfortable with virtualization practices in their own private clouds - are considering a jump to the public cloud. But before making that leap, consider these pieces of advice from those that have already jumped.

  • News: 8 ways to become a cloud security expert

    Information about how to securely navigate in the public clouds is, well, cloudy. We asked enterprise IT folks and IT consultants what resources they turned to get educated on this particular topic. The responses can loosely be broken down into three categories: niche conferences; big conferences, and authoritative voices accessible on the Internet.

  • News: Kenya expects increased investment with reduced spectrum fees

    With its recent move to reduce spectrum fees, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) is expecting increased investment in underserved areas and lower costs to the consumer.

  • News: IT Outsourcing Survey: Provider Profits Shrink, Growth Slows in India

    Established IT outsourcers are getting squeezed at both ends of the competitive spectrum. According to the annual offshore outsourcing survey conducted by Duke University's Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and PwC, incumbent India-based and U.S. IT service providers are under pressure from outsourcing upstarts in other countries that are stealing market share from them and from existing clients demanding price reductions.

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