Symantec Survey Finds Split in How to Implement Mobility; Francis deSouza Comments
A Symantec survey has divided organizations into two categories regarding how they choose to implement mobile devices into the workplace in response to user demand and other pressures. The company identified “innovators” as those who readily embrace mobility and “traditionals” that are reluctant to implement it, Symantec says in its findings. Sixty-six percent of companies [...]
Nearly two-fifths, or 42 percent, of chief information officers told an Accenture survey managing increased use of mobile devices is one of their top five priorities. Thirty-four percent of the 413 CIOs surveyed said mobility was a priority of theirs for 2013, Silicon Republic reports. Tina Costanza writes 43 percent said their biggest need was [...]
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Close to three-quarters, or 74 per cent of respondents, to a Deloitte survey rank security risks of employees bringing their own mobile devices into the workplace as a “high or average” concern. Deloitte also 50 percent of surveyed businesses had a BYOD policy and 10 percent did not address BYOD risks at all, according to [...]
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Deloitte Team Surveys 3G Data Usage Impact on GDP; Tom Phillips, Robert Pepper Comment
November 26, 2012 No CommentCountries characterized by a higher level of data usage per 3G connection have seen an increase in their gross domestic product per capita growth of up to 1.4 percentage points, according to a report from Deloitte and GSMA. A 10 percent uptick 2G to 3G penetration increases GDP per capita growth by 0.15 percentage points [...]
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According to a Quest Software survey, improving business agility, delivering cost savings, meeting increasingly demanding user expectations and managing the growing mobile workforce will be the top drivers of IT spending on virtualization initiatives in 2012. More than half of the respondents surveyed revealed that at least 25 percent of their 2012 IT budgets will [...]
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Iron Mountain, Inc., recently released a survey outlining how businesses both prepare and cope with data loss in the event of a disaster. The survey generated responses from 1,200 individuals responsible for protecting their organization’s data and helped highlight the major obstacles they face, both in the long and short-terms. The survey painted a clear picture [...]
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According to the 2011 IBM Tech Trends Report, developers worldwide believe Watson’s analytics capabilities will transform industries that are managing massive amounts of data. IBM surveyed more than 4,000 information technology professionals from 93 countries and 25 industries who provided their views on future IT trends. The survey revealed business analytics software is the most widely [...]
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Symantec Finds Small, Midsize Firms Think Cyberattacks Won’t Happen to Them
November 17, 2011 No CommentA recently released study from Symantec Corp. found that most are aware of potential threats, but it seems small and medium businesses don’t think it could happen to them. The company’s 2011 SMB Threat Awareness Poll revealed high levels of awareness, but did find that SMBs may not be implementing the correct safeguards despite awareness levels, according to the [...]
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