Two online polls indicate IT organizations will be investing in cloud computing projects, especially private clouds in 2011, echoing similar predictions from a number of other sources. – Investing in private clouds is a top priority for IT organizations in 2011,
according to two recent online polls, Unisys said on Jan. 26.
The two polls were conducted on the Unisys Website. The first poll, in
December 2010, asked visitors about their cloud computing implementation plans.
The sec…
RIM’s PlayBook is attracting increased developer interest, but lags behind both the iPad and Android tablets in a new survey by Appcelerator and IDC. – Developers are increasingly interested in Research In
Motions upcoming PlayBook platform, at least according to new survey data
posted by Appcelerator and research firm IDC. However, that same data suggests
the iPad and Android tablets continue to dominate developers attention.
Appcelerator and…
A new joint survey from Appcelerator and IDC shows that the emergence of tablet computers has caused developers to refocus their development strategies. – Appcelerator, maker of tools for building mobile, desktop and tablet applications, and IDC have announced results of a joint survey showing that the onslaught of tablet systems has caused some developers to refocus their development efforts.
Indeed, the joint Appcelerator-IDC survey of more than 2…
A survey asks individuals to rank which projects on their 2011 IT road map are expected to be the most challenging. – Fifty-one percent of data center managers and decision makers at large
organizations see technology refreshes as the top data center priority for
2011, according to a survey from IT infrastructure specialist SANpulse. This
finding highlights the fact that mean time to migrate (MTTM) is critical f…
While spam declined dramatically in 2010, social networking threats, identity theft scams and phishing campaigns increased in sophistication and complexity, according to Ciscos Annual Review. – Spam volumes decreased dramatically even as users fell for
increasingly sophisticated social-engineering scams in 2010, according to
Ciscos Annual Security Report, released Jan. 20.
2010 will be known as the “year the tide turned” for spam, Henry
Stern, Cisco senior security researcher, told eWE…
Ninety percent of survey respondents said virtualization will take on greater importance in their network in 2011. – In the future, mobile phones will dominate, with businesses moving
to a quot;bring your own device quot; strategy and voice virtualization will
take on more importance in business’ networks, according to survey
results taken by business communications and collaboration software and
services pro…
Companies are still holding back on salary increases for IT professionals, and many workers say they are going to switch employers to boost their salaries, according to a report from Dice. – Even as the economy recovers and companies start hiring IT workers again,
the average pay for technology workers remained flat for a second year in a
row, according to the results of a survey released by technology and engineering career Website Dice
on Jan. 19.
The online poll of nearly 20,000 …
U.S.-based businesses ranked 10th overall for backup and disaster recovery (DR) preparedness, according to a survey. – A survey of more than 3,000 small to medium-size businesses (SMB)
conducted by the Ponemon Institute revealed that while attitudes
towards backup and recovery differ widely around the world, businesses
everywhere want a single backup and recovery solution for physical,
virtual and cloud environm…
A Symantec survey finds small businesses are at risk of data loss and many are unprepared for such an event. – Security specialist Symantec Corp. announced the findings of its 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey, which measured the attitudes and practices of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and their customers toward disaster preparedness. The survey findings suggested that though SMBs are at risk, …
Smaller companies are spending more on mobile services and devices, according to a new survey, with potential to stall their IT adoption. – Given the rise of mobile devices in both the consumer and
business spheres, its perhaps no surprise that small and midsize businesses are spending an increasing
amount on tablets and smartphones.
A newly completed study by the research firm SMB Group
suggests that SMBs (which it defines as comp…
During the past several years, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard& or PCI DSS& has in some ways stood out as a model of industry self-regulation. Born from internal standards from American Express, MasterCard, Visa, Discover and the Japan Credit Bureau, PCI DSS was synthesized together to align the policies of the payment card industry in order to prevent credit card fraud. In the past several years, the standard has undergone its share of changes, culminating with the recent release of PCI DSS 2.0. While passing a PCI DSS checklist should not be taken as evidence that security is foolproof, it is also true that an analysis released by Verizon in October 2010 found breached organizations are 50 percent less likely to be compliant than a normal population of clients using its PCI assessment service. But all roses have thorns. In a Cisco-sponsored survey, InsightExpress questioned 500 IT decision makers about PCI DSS, offering a window into some of the challenges and costs associated with compliance as well as what technologies they are adopting to meet those requirements. Some of the answers may surprise you. – …
A survey by Unisys and MeriTalk found that although the federal government spends more than $35 billion maintaining legacy applications, modernization efforts are running behind. – The federal government spends about half of its annual IT budget maintaining older legacy applications, and that almost half of all the applications are based on legacy technology that needs to be modernized, according to a recent study.
However, the problem, according to the survey conducted by th…
Some 80 percent of those polled by CommVault reported that they will allocate as much as 20 percent of their budgets on data protection hardware, software, services/support and media. – Several key IT researchers
already have reported that global and U.S. IT spending in 2011 is expected to
increase modestly over that of 2010, thanks to an uptick in the general
ecomony.
Now some storage-specific
market research is coming to the fore. CommVault on Jan. 10 released the
results …
To pick up on the previous blog posting, the end of year holiday break is now a rapidly fading memory, another new year stretching out in front of us. What does 2011 hold in store for the auto industry?
We would very much like to know what you think. We’ve put together a short survey to gather your thoughts and opinons (we did something similar last year). And, with only 10 questions, it should only take a few minutes to complete.
The survey is live now, so please dive in and have your say.
Magic Survey Tools software is customized by Webmyne Systems. More than five years in the field of International market research software doing marketing analysis, software and research.
According to survey results, 13 percent of employers expect to hire part-time employees in the next 12 months. – If finding a new job is high on many peoples lists
of New Year’s resolutions, the prospects are likely to improve to some degree,
according to CareerBuilder’s annual job forecast. Compared with 2010, more
employers plan to add full-time, permanent headcount in 2011, with a continued
emphasis on …
Among the top three areas of focus for businesses are software, hardware and a company’s Website. – Heading into the new year, a majority of small to medium-size businesses are
optimistic and are planning moderate changes in 2011, according to a survey of
more than 1,000 SMB decision makers. With 84 percent of the SMBs surveyed
predicting that sales will increase or remain the same, many busine…
One in 5 U.S. adults surveyed said they would planned to own a tablet by 2014, giving Apple, Android and the latecomers plenty of time to duke it out over market share. – The market carved out by Apple’s iPad has a bright
future, as 1 in 5 American Adults plan to own a tablet computer by 2014, according
to a survey of 2,288 participants from Fuze Box and Harris Interactive.
Market researcher Harris conducted the survey online Nov.
10 through Nov. 12 on behalf of …
Many large organizations are already active in cloud
computing in some form and are planning more deployments, according to a CA Technologies study. – Many enterprises, including the largest, are actively
exploring cloud computing, according to the results of a study released by CA
Technologies on Dec. 16.
More than 80 percent of surveyed enterprises and 92
percent of the largest enterprises, have at least one cloud service, the report
found….
Ekahau Mobile Survey delivers a nice mix of WiFi stumbling tools and performance measurement to Android-based smartphones and tablets, supporting many Android devices running Android OS 2.1 or higher. Mobile Survey ($299) is sold through the Ekahau Web store, rather than the Android Market, so the device to be used with Mobile Survey must support non-Market application sources. The software performs both active and passive WiFi scans with the ability to measure detected network performance against multicriteria templates tailored for specific network use cases. Unfortunately, Mobile Survey is hampered because most Android smartphones don’t support 5 GHz 802.11n and only have a single transmit/receive chain, even though the software claims to be able to handle the higher frequency band and better antenna configurations. To read the full review, check out "Ekahau Mobile Survey for Android Troubleshoots WiFi Networks". Or if you have experience with Ekahau Mobile Survey, share your thoughts at http://labs.eweek.com. – …
