The channel is key for WatchGuard, and the company will be increasing its investments to aid the channel in supporting business security, according to its A/NZ regional director, David Higgins. But instead of increasing the number of disties and partnerships, Higgins said it will be focusing on strategic alliances.
The Asia-Pacific region will see the largest growth in smart city initiatives over the next 10 years and public safety technologies are central to this development, according to wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS).
In 2014, it seemed that no industry went unscathed. The data breaches this year were broad and deep. Software maker Adobe was hit for 152 million records. Online marketplace eBay was drained of another 145 million; Bank and financial services firm JP Morgan Chase 76 million; retailers Target and The Home Depot for another 70.
IBM has taken the next big step in its bid to command the Cloud with launch of a new Cloud Marketplace.
Size matters when it comes to security, according to Davi Ottenhelmer. Ottenhelmer, senior director of trust at EMC, titled his presentation at SOURCE Boston, "Delivering Security at Big Data Scale," and began with the premise that, "as things get larger, a lot of our assumptions break."
A recent survey by Forrester found that 7 per cent of IT executives and 9 per cent of business leaders feel they have gained a true return on investment from Big Data. That means there's a lot more business can be doing to glean insights from the massive amount of data that's potentially available to them.
Many organisations have trouble finding IT workers with the skills needed to implement big data analytics and Cloud computing strategies. But that skills gap isn't limited to engineers and developers.
Twenty-seven per cent of communications service providers (CSPs) has no strategy for Big Data analytics in 2013, and the vast amount of information they hold about their subscribers remains “largely untapped,” according to research firm, Analysys Mason.
It's that time of year when IT executives' thoughts turn to setting resolutions for the new year. We've talked to CIOs, IT analysts and other industry experts about the major trends for 2013 to come up with our own list of suggested IT resolutions.
At its first user conference, called AWS re: Invent, Amazon Web Services today launched its newest cloud-based service, called Redshift. Meant to be a petabyte-scale data warehouse, AWS officials say Redshift allows businesses to drop their data warehousing costs by 10 times compared to on-premise systems.
