Opinion stories - Page 257

Converged and hyperconverged infrastructure (or CI and HCI) are being framed as the new hope of enterprise IT.

Digital transformation has already become one of the IT industry's hot topics, and will continue to grab headlines through 2016.

At the end of 2015, estimates showed that 3.2 billion people were online. This means that globally, 4.1 billion people were still not internet users.

As the enterprise transitions from disk to flash, the focus shifts from optimising for performance to optimising for capacity.

A new Trojan called Xbot is targeting Android users in Russia and Australia, stealing banking credentials and demanding a ransom.

Understanding the costs of managing data is crucial for businesses to make smart decisions and increase data value.

It doesn't make any sense to put so much pressure on Apple or Google when in the end, they don't control all the keys to the kingdom.

Many well regulated industries have DR compliance requirements imposed on them which, if not met, can have serious implications on a business.

Gartner's Peter Sondergaard participated in the recent Wall Street Journal CIO Network conference in California, which produced a number of insights.

In order to support the next twenty years of innovation, the coming major meta trend will reshape businesses and organisations around the world.

A quantitative, analytic and evidence-based approach is inhibited by the fact that people are predominantly emotional decision makers.

I've uncovered Israeli innovation countering soaring IoT attacks and Dark Web's underworld market indexing—key battlegrounds in cyber warfare.

CryptoWall 3.0 has been hugely successful – netting cybercriminals nearly $490 million NZD in its debut year. Now its successor has arrived.

Such data leaks can easily lead to trouble, ranging from phishing emails or loss of social network account access to identity theft and extortion.

Microsoft's 'Cloud First Licensing' strategy accelerates, reshaping the tech giant's cloud race with key licensing updates.

Hard to believe it but Facebook has only just turned 12, meaning it is still young enough to have not been around at the turn of the millennium.

Enterprises should develop their expertise in AI and cognitive computing and begin applying it as part of their digital initiatives.

The movement to cloud-based services is advancing rapidly, yet most corporate WANs are still built for the pre-cloud world.

Small businesses, give heed to SEO's power to boost your online presence, or risk obscurity in the digital age.

The era of the Internet of Things is ending; we are now entering the era of the Pervasive Digital Presence, according to a security analyst.