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Recruiting IT security professionals can be tough, unless you have a great elevator pitch, says an insurance company CIO Hiring (and retaining) data security talent is one of the toughest jobs today, especially after a slew of high-profile data breaches that have driven demand and salaries sky-high. Robert S. Allen, […]
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Users love shadow IT, but IT departments hate the very idea. It doesn’t have to be that way. In most IT departments, the very words “shadow IT” conjure visions of out-of-control users merrily spreading sensitive data on insecure services and unapproved devices, risking huge losses and costing IT personnel lost […]
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All eyes are on Samsung Pay and its embedded LoopPay inside the Galaxy S6 smartphone Mobile in-store payments could grow dramatically in the U.S. as the result of a battle brewing among tech giants Google, Samsung and Apple. In the latest development, Samsung today revealed Samsung Pay, a new mobile […]
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This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Hybrid cloud is the talk of IT, but to avoid costly, labor-intensive megaprojects you cannot escape, pay particular attention to minimizing implementation and management complexity. […]
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Pundits say spectrum demand will overrun supply by 2018 or 2019. Grabbing someone else’s frequencies would be one solution. Unlicensed spectrum would be the logical place to expand traffic if, as mobile networks are finding, their licensed spectrum is running out. Why not shift over to unlicensed spectrum? It’s unlicensed, […]
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This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Everyone used to hire mobile app developers to build custom programs, but that often resulted in shoddy, insecure programs that sometimes didn’t even work. And […]
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IT’s work can be hidden away and therefore ignored. But it can pay to put a spotlight on it. Appreciating IT workers We all like to know that our efforts are appreciated. For people working in IT, recognition is too often neglected, simply because so much of what IT workers […]
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A new browser not named ‘IE’ would give Microsoft ways to leave legacy support behind Microsoft will unveil a browser not named Internet Explorer (IE) alongside Windows 10, according to an online report. Long-time Microsoft watcher and ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley cited unnamed sources on Monday to say that […]
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These CIOs are jumping on a fast-moving trend — mining small data sets to deliver valuable insights quickly to the right people at the right time. A lot of security processes failed during the breach of Target’s systems during last year’s holiday season, but one surprising revelation was that the […]
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New Amazon competitors offer some compelling deals in the cloud, but at what price? Hosting provider Atlantic.net launched a $0.99 per month cloud server this fall, which is significantly less expensive than the $0.013 per hour starting price for market-leader Amazon Web Services’ on-demand Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtual machines. […]