| | | INSIDER Alert | | Your guide to the top content posted this week for Insider members | | | | InfoWorld The primary mission of computing has always been to automate business. The secondary mission has been to automate the automation, a quest that grows ever more urgent as data center technology achieves such towering complexity it threatens to collapse under its own weight. | | InfoWorld Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps have raised the bar for cloud productivity suites. Formerly pale shadows of available desktop programs, the two suites are now more than enough for many offices and businesses. But are they right for you? In this exhaustive review, InfoWorld covers multiple aspects of the cloud suites, starting with the many Office 365 SKUs and Google Apps for Business options and proceeding to: READ MORE | | Network World Most over-hyped technology trends wear out their welcome pretty quickly, which should make skeptics among us wary about Big Data. However, while Big Data is being touted as the latest trend that will change the world, the skeptics aren’t as, well, skeptical as they were about cloud and social. That’s probably because Big Data is generating real-world wins for the companies embracing it. Already, Big Data analytics is starting to fundamentally change such disparate disciplines as pharmaceutical research, sales and marketing, and product development. Many use cases, such as smart cities and driverless cars, even get us excited about a Jetsons-like existence where the world around us seems to anticipate our needs. Those scenarios may be the future of Big Data, but they’re not the “now” of Big Data.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | Network World Smartphones, tablets, social networks, and cloud services are all popular, incredibly useful -- and a security risk. These days, the security focus is on mobile devices, as they tend to be used a lot to work with corporate information, but the variety of platforms, the fact many are employee-owned, and uneven security capabilities mean it's a real challenge -- sometimes an impossible challenge -- to manage them in the same way as the corporate PC.The issue is not so much hacking; outside of malware easily available in the Android's Google Play store, mobile devices are safer than PCs from hackers. Instead, the issue is inappropriate information usage, where employees inadvertently spill the beans about contacts, embarrass people, violate any number of privacy regulations, and neglect compliance obligations. Most people do it inadvertently, some people do it deliberately -- but what matters is that they do it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | | |
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