Latest SMB Tech Articles

• 19 June 2013

• News: The panic is over. Facebook is back up

  Facebook suffered a service disruption for about four hours Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times.

• News: Apple end-to-end encryption far from bulletproof

  Apple won't provide experts with details of encryption architecture, so what it means by 'cannot decrypt"' data is unclear, expert says

• News: Myriad IT launches infrastructure services

  Technology services company, Myraid IT, has launched its newest line of business, Infrastructure Services, to provide its customers with managed services, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and bespoke support.

• News: Dell committee says Icahn's new proposal is not 'actionable'

  A Dell special committee has rejected a new proposal from a key shareholder Carl C. Icahn, and said it will continue to support the proposal by founder Michael Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners to take the company private.

• 18 June 2013

• News: GE thinks it's time to put industrial data in the cloud

  Internet tools are just starting to be applied to industrial tasks such as maintaining equipment and optimizing operations, but the wealth of data being produced by industrial systems could make this a major focus of development in the coming years.

• News: Microsoft Dynamics ERP software now available on the Azure cloud

  Microsoft is upping the stakes in the growing market for cloud-based ERP, with its Dynamics GP 2013 and NAV 2013 products now available for deployment on its Azure service.

• News: Google puts $7M into fighting child porn, abuse

  Google said it's spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them.

• News: Venture firm Accel makes another huge Big Data bet

  Accel Partners Tuesday announced a $100 million fund to back software companies exploiting the technology foundation built by the first wave of Big Data start-ups.

• News: Wall Street sets example for testing security defenses

  Quantum Dawn 2 will test institutions' playbooks while also finding more efficient ways to share real-time information

• News: How to Evaluate the Risk of Outsourcing Locations

  IT organizations and CIOs don't contract and outsource to countries, they contract and outsource to companies. Given that, it's time to stop assessing location-based risk in a vacuum because sometimes the 'riskiest' suppliers may have the most innovative solutions.

• News: Most data in organisations is "junk," difficult to get context: CommVault

  Big Data without context is just noise, according to CommVault A/NZ area vice president, Bryan Stibbard.

• News: Verizon extends private IP service to Equinix datacentres

  Broadband, wireless and communications services provider, Verizon has partnered with datacentre and co-location provider, Equinix, to offer Verizon's private IP service in Equinix's International Business Exchange (IBX) datacentres globally.

• News: Microsoft kills linked accounts in Outlook.com

  Microsoft said Monday that it is eliminating the ability to link accounts within Outlook.com, replacing them with aliases instead.

• News: Jive boosts mobile capabilities of its enterprise social suite

  Jive Software is making a mobile push with new and enhanced mobile applications that have an emphasis on helping users of the enterprise social networking (ESN) suite create, not just view, content from their tablets and smartphones.

• News: Aon centralises telecoms management

  Insurance broker Aon is centralising its telecoms management with Azzurri after its outsourcing supplier ended an IT services contract.

• News: Open Data Center Alliance tackles big data analysis

  The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers.

• News: NewsGator's SharePoint add-on tries to filter, reduce enterprise social noise

  NewsGator has upgraded its Social Sites enterprise social networking (ESN) add-on for SharePoint to make the software better able to tailor the content, notifications and capabilities it displays for each user.

• 17 June 2013

• News: 5 Ways to Evaluate Your IT Outsourcing Maturity

  IT outsourcing has become increasingly integral to building and operating the enterprise IT environment, but many IT services customers remain frustrated with their results.

• News: Rising SSL traffic to degrade firewall performance

  Drop in performance caused by extra workload required to decrypt data packets to look for malicious code, then re-encrypting before sending

• 15 June 2013

• Feature: How to create a better LinkedIn profile

  LinkedIn allows you to build a more professional-looking social media presence for yourself and make the right contacts to help you climb the corporate ladder or promote yourself to new and potential employers.

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