Tech

  • Five signs an employee plans to leave with your company’s data

    A global high-tech manufacturer had reached its boiling point after several of its sales reps left the company unexpectedly and took with them sales leads and other data to their new employers. The company needed to stop the thefts before they happened. So the company hired several security analysts who […]

  • Office 2016 adopts branches, update-or-else strategy of Windows 10

    Enterprise subscribers to Office 365 get “Current Branch” and “Current Branch for Business” update and upgrade tracks Microsoft yesterday said it will launch Office 2016 for Windows on Sept. 22, and detailed how it will deliver updates and upgrades with a cadence and rules set similar to Windows 10’s. Office […]

  • 2015 reality check: IT spending, confidence on an upswing

    2015 continues to be a solid year for IT with budgets rising, confidence growing, and IT-business alignment strengthening. The pace of hiring dipped mid-year — an indicator of the tight market for talent rather than a harbinger of a slowdown. IT hits mid-year high notes The optimism buoying IT at […]

  • Microsoft and VMware cozy up, forgoing past rivalry

    The companies have worked together on a new device management initiative Microsoft’s new, more collaborative approach to the computing industry was on display at VMware’s annual conference in San Francisco Tuesday, when executives from both companies shared the stage to talk about new device management features in Windows 10. As […]

  • Millennials will move, take less money for IT jobs

    A new survey suggests millennials seeking IT jobs are willing to accept less money and relocate in exchange for positions they’re passionate about, but they also aren’t afraid to quickly move on if they are dissatisfied with current employers. Millennials who want to work in IT say they would consider […]

  • Why SharePoint is the last great on-premises application

    While it seems like almost every piece of IT is moving to cloud these days, there are still plenty of reasons to keep SharePoint in your server room – where it belongs. At the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) last month in Orlando, we heard many of the same grumblings we’ve […]

  • The No. 1 midsize place to work in IT: Credit Acceptance

    Ambitious IT pros at this auto financing company are rewarded with frequent pay raises, substantial bonuses and generous tuition reimbursement. Six months after arriving at Credit Acceptance Corp. as a contract tech support analyst, Chris Thomas hired on as a full-time employee. He hasn’t looked back. “I started at the […]

  • Next-generation endpoint protection not as easy as it sounds

    Endpoint protection technology is making strides and may soon be touted as anti-virus Rather than looking for signatures of known malware as traditional anti-virus software does, next-generation endpoint protection platforms analyze processes, changes and connections in order to spot activity that indicates foul play and while that approach is better […]

  • EBay to sell its enterprise unit four years after buying it

    EBay has reached a deal to sell its enterprise unit, a division focused on building and running online shopping sites for brick-and-mortar retailers, for less than half of what it paid four years ago. The $925 million deal, announced Thursday, will give control of eBay Enterprise to a group of […]

  • Closing the security loop with automated incident response

    A firmware flaw in older Apple computers could allow an attacker to slip a rootkit onto the machine, a security researcher says. Credit: IDGNS Organizations need to automate low-complexity, high-volume tasks that are eating up their experts’ time This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate […]