Stories by Mark Phillips

Governance vital for Cloud computing

Global IT association ISACA has issued a new guide outlining how to implement effective controls and governance for Cloud computing.

By Mark Phillips | 07 September, 2011 10:58

Tags: cloud, cloud computing, enterprise, enterprises, ISACA

Small businesses challenged by virtualization

Small businesses may have a strong interest in virtualization, but they are still a long way from effectively adopting it. In fact, according to a new study by Symantec Corp, as they attempt to implement server virtualization, many are actually putting their data at risk.

By Mark Phillips | 25 August, 2011 14:55

Tags: small businesses, Symantec Corp, virtualisation, Virtualization

Top tips for fighting targeted cyber threats

Targeted attacks are penetrating standard levels of security controls and causing significant business damage to enterprises that do not evolve their security controls, according to Gartner vice president and analyst, John Pescatore.

By Mark Phillips | 25 August, 2011 14:48

Tags: cybercrime, security

China tops US as world’s biggest PC market

China has finally surpassed the United States to become the largest PC market in the world.

By Mark Phillips | 25 August, 2011 10:49

Tags: PC sales

Web breaches blamed on lacklustre security

With attacks on websites by the likes of Anonymous rarely out of the headlines, independent analyst Ovum has blamed Web developers for not putting enough importance on ensuring sites and applications are secure.

By Mark Phillips | 25 August, 2011 09:43

Tags: security, Web security

Social media has high workplace cost

A calculator which measures the cost to companies of time spent by employees using social media has revealed that an average business with 52 employees loses as much as $US65,000 a year from non-work-related social media activity.

By Mark Phillips | 23 August, 2011 10:31

Tags: enterprise, management, social media

New multi-vendor management solution

As more enterprises turn to multi-sourcing as a way to drive down IT costs, minimise delivery risk and increase efficiency, HP Enterprise Services has unveiled a service that aims to facilitate enterprise control of multi-vendor service environments.

By Mark Phillips | 19 August, 2011 11:55

Tags: enterprise, Hewlett-Packard (HP), HP, HP Enterprise Services, Multi-supplier Integration (MSI)

PC market to wane as new innovations take hold

It’s been 30 years since the advent of the IBM Personal Computer, but according to IBM designer Dr Mark Dean, who worked on the original 5150, the days of the PC are now numbered.

By Mark Phillips | 19 August, 2011 11:44

Tags: IBM, IBM Personal Computer, pc, personal computer

IT service management awarded in Perth

Monash University, Australian Defence Organisation, Australian Electoral Commission and the Doric Group are just some of the finalists in this year’s IT service management (ITSM) awards.

By Mark Phillips | 12 August, 2011 17:04

Tags: Australian Defence Organisation, Australian Electoral Commission, Doric Group, itsm, Monash University, Sinclair Knight Merz

New focus on Cloud security

US-based not-for-profit Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has unveiled a free initiative designed to encourage transparency of security practices within Cloud providers.

By Mark Phillips | 12 August, 2011 12:09

Tags: cloud

More Cloud on the horizon

Asia-Pacific insurers are planning to increase their IT budgets in 2011–2012 and -- interesting for an industry that is traditionally slow to adopt new technologies -- 43 per cent of respondents in a new study have already deployed or are experimenting with private Cloud.

By Mark Phillips | 11 August, 2011 17:02

Tags: cloud computing, ovum

Compromise likely on Cloud computing

At this week’s Gartner Summit in Sydney a suggestion that by 2016, 20 per cent of all business organisation’s IT will be purely Cloud-based was put to delegates and a panel of IT gurus. Roughly 70 per cent of an audience of around 250 agreed with the prediction. Here’s some of what the panel had to say.

By Mark Phillips | 11 August, 2011 10:57

Tags: business, cloud computing, enterprise, Gartner Summit 2011, Matt Stodolnic, virtualisation, Virtualization, VMware

New study a fillip for NBN

The case for a National Broadband Network (NBN) has been given a fillip by research findings that show by 2015 there will be an almost six-fold increase in internet traffic in Australia.

By Mark Phillips | 10 August, 2011 12:02

Tags: NBN, networking

Talent war heats up

With demand for skilled technology professionals now exceeding supply, in a bid to retain their top talent employers will be awarding average salary increases of 3-4 per cent through 2011 and 2012.

By Mark Phillips | 10 August, 2011 12:00

Tags: enterprise, Michael Page International, salary, Salary & Employment Forecast

2016: All in the Cloud?

If there is one top-of-mind issue among CIOs today, it is Cloud computing. But how will it be positioned five years from now — as an innovation that brought about overriding change in the way IT delivers business service or, as some predict, something responsible for nothing more than incremental change to the familiar hosting arrangements and one that back in 2011 was wrapped in massive hype?

By Mark Phillips | 10 August, 2011 10:14

Tags: cloud, cloud computing, Gartner, Gartner Summit 2011, SaaS, software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), storage, virtualisation, Virtualization

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