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Google’s biggest strength is helping enterprises “run like Google”—something that even old-school companies have discovered they can now do. 2017 was a good year for Google Cloud Platform. But 2018 promises to be even better. Although Google still sits well behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in cloud revenue, with just 2.3 percent market … Read more
The issue of cyber security has been thrust into the spotlight this year like never before, with overwhelming attacks gaining international coverage. Evolving & ever growing IoT landscape will widen attack surface for cyber criminals (IoT adoption by corporations, smart homes). It has been predicted that there will be more than 20 billion IoT devices … Read more
2018 could be the year that governments take a more active role in IoT security, and put pressure on device manufacturers to do the right thing for consumers. 2017 will likely be remembered as the year of ransomware, with high-profile attacks by WannaCry and NotPetya dominating the headlines and causing widespread disruption to organisations around … Read more
Smarter infrastructure, workload rationalization, as-a-service procurement on tap for data centers worldwide. The lifecycle of a data center is measured in decades, yet the tech that’s inside is changing constantly. “Today’s data centers are really out of sync with the equipment that’s inside them. It would be like using the enclosure for a 1984 Macintosh … Read more
The most effective and proactive way of controlling that security risk is by finding and removing vulnerabilities in base images. Containers provide an effective way to deliver a compact, portable environment for running applications across shared server resources. But enterprises are advised to take precautions before embracing this approach to operating-system-level virtualization. Security risks unique … Read more
The world of enterprise Wi-Fi moves fast, but 2018 is going to see gear based on 802.11ac Wave 2 remain the state of the art – its successor, 802.11ax, is still one for the future. Wave 2 is the latest Wi-Fi standard to be certified by the IEEE. Its main technological innovation is MU-MIMO, or … Read more
The global security threat outlook evolves with every coming year. To combat the threat in 2018, enterprises must understand these five global cyber threats. If you thought 2017 was a dire year for data breaches, wait until 2018. The Information Security Forum (ISF), a global, independent information security body that focuses on cyber security and … Read more
Businesses must check their software licences before they introduce robotic process automation or they risk breaking the rules. This article mostly refers to the UK market. However, the principles discussed apply to any market. Robotic process automation has the potential to deliver significant cost efficiencies to many businesses, but those efficiencies could be wiped out … Read more
McAfee forecasts developments in adversarial machine learning, ransomware, serverless apps, connected home privacy and privacy of child-generated content. McAfee Inc.’s most recent threat analyst report has identified five key cyber security trends to watch in 2018. This year’s report focuses on the evolution of ransomware from traditional to new applications, the cyber security implications of … Read more
As Cisco transitions from hardware to software, it’s rolling out a whole new line of products for IoT and cloud. As the preeminent networking company shapes its plans for 2018, analysts and users say Cisco is at somewhat of an inflection point, transitioning from a hardware-based company to an integrated hardware and software-focused one. In … Read more
