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Photos: Qualcomm's Snapdragon-powered Android smartbook on show
Photo This week saw chipmaker Qualcomm taking the wraps off a range of hardware powered by its Snapdragon platform. Among the devices on show was this Lenovo smartbook (pictured above and below) which runs the Google Android OS. [20 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Cloud computing more expensive than we thought?
Comment The downside of this was the difficulty in accurately predicting cost expenditures in line with future initiatives. It's not just the technology that's important - how you account for its cost can also have a huge impact... [19 Nov 2009]
Does your business really need an office?
Comment As general manager of Group Property at mining giant Rio Tinto, Neil Usher has a remit to determine the shape and form of the company's future workplace. Richard Leyland is a futurist and writer, with a particular focus... [17 Nov 2009]
Adapting to a New Future: Impact of the Credit CARD Act of 2009 on Financial Institutions
White Paper These firms are approaching the situation as a call to examine and improve businesses processes across the enterprise while considering the future business model for credit card lending as a whole. Consistent with the... [13 Nov 2009]
The Future of Risk Management and Internal Control
White Paper Risk management isn't just about protecting business - it's also about making it better. Risk management shouldn't be thought of as a stand-alone compliance or control activity, but as a competency that allows organization to realize its... [13 Nov 2009]
Hedge Funds to Reconsider Administrators for Valuations and Risk Analytics
White Paper The lingering credit crisis has surfaced issues for hedge funds that will have reverberations far into the future. The immediate impacts are already telling, for example in valuation. Hedge fund managers are being pushed... [13 Nov 2009]
In Search of a Silver Bullet for Risk Management
White Paper For the foreseeable future, the industry can expect elevated levels of distrust, scrutiny and regulation. With government funding of the financial services sector in full swing nearly the world over, all eyes are focused... [13 Nov 2009]
Recession Proof Your Business Email Through Outsourcing
White Paper Email's importance is overshadowed only by the formidable task of keeping everything up and running as close to 24x7 as possible, adding new capabilities to the email infrastructure over time, protecting against new and ever more... [13 Nov 2009]
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Using Server Isolation and Encryption as an IT Compliance Best Practice
White Paper This paper addresses the challenges of IT compliance requirements driven by legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) and how the best response is to take a broad risk-based approach that builds on a base of server... [13 Nov 2009]
Proactive Is Better Than Reactive: Testing Password Safety - A Key to Securing a Corporate Network
White Paper So a few dollars spent on defending against security threats now can reap millions in avoiding future losses due to hacking of enterprise network. Information protection gets much attention these days. [13 Nov 2009]
Risk, Responsibility & Opportunity: The CEO's Guide to Climate Action
White Paper Some of these findings are included in this report and they paint a very gloomy picture of the future of planet. Thanks to science it now has an increasingly clear and ominous picture of how climate is changing. [13 Nov 2009]
Why Outsourcing Your PKI Provides the Best Value: A Total Cost of Ownership Analysis
White Paper Organizations require knowledgeable staff, a formal and binding set of policies and procedures, secure facilities, hardware that meets future extensibility requirements, and PKI software to create and manage... [13 Nov 2009]
Future-Forward to 802.11 n: The Testing Challenge in Wireless Networking
White Paper Meanwhile, how can manufacturers cope with the confusion and promise surrounding 802.11's future? The crucial interoperability of wireless network devices built around the 802.11 standard is threatened by the advent of... [12 Nov 2009]
2008 Internet Malware Trends: Storm and the Future of Social Engineering
White Paper Estimates of the number of computers infected with Storm ranged widely, with some security researchers positing that up to 50 million computers had been infected. Cisco's IronPort Systems estimates that, at its most destructive point in... [12 Nov 2009]
Proofpoint Offers a Strong ILP Solution With Great Future Promise
White Paper Proofpoint offers a strong Information Leak Prevention (ILP) solution that holds its ground among industry heavyweights in a number of specialized areas of functionality. But the company's most powerful feature is its strong partner... [12 Nov 2009]
