Middle East, Thursday, October 30, 2008 - Twenty per cent of the IT services markets will move from a "hosted
model" to a cloud computing model (in which IT services are provided
through the internet) in the coming years, says a top Google official.
London, UK, March 07, 2008 - Internet users in the UK could lose as much as £10,077 per year as a
result of online identity fraud, according to a national survey for a
digital security firm.
That's the average total sum of monetary assets available in the online
accounts, including banking, gaming and shopping balances held by a UK
Web user.
The research shows that Internet users are putting a
collective £361 billion at risk by revealing personal data on Web sites
that are not secure or are poorly protected.
London, UK, Feb 25, 2008 - Three-quarters of UK companies have no contingency plans for data loss,
even though 90% had to recover data in the past year, according to
research from Kroll Ontrack.
The data recovery specialist surveyed a cross-section of more than 100
UK IT professionals and discovered that 65% of UK firms have no
dedicated budget available for data recovery.
Every UK business must carbon budget when the Climate Change Bill comes before parliament over the next year
The IT industry will need to start helping businesses meet their carbon
targets, according to panellists at a green computing forum.
The Climate Change Bill has already been drafted by Whitehall and will
create legislation that aims to reduce UK carbon dioxide
emissions by 60 percent through domestic and
international action by 2050.
London, UK, April 11, 2008 - The majority (79%) of those responsible for security in UK businesses
are not aware of the contents of information security standards BS 7799
and ISO 27000, according to a government survey.
The Information Security Breaches Survey is conducted every two years
on behalf of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform and managed by PricewaterdhouseCoopers (PwC).
The phenomenon of software as a service (SaaS) has changed the way
organisations access their applications, as more and more users deploy
hosted software delivered direct to a web browser.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, February 5, 2008 - Google Inc. today announced a
series of security products Powered by Postini™ that deliver message
filtering, encryption and archiving for any business environment.
Mountain View, CA, Thursday, October 09, 2008
- Large organizations and enterprise customers are
legally required to store business email messages securely and reliably
for litigation or other legal issues. Google already offers a one year
email retention for enterprise customers who host their business emails
on Google's servers. The company now announced that it is extending
email the time frame covered by its archiving service to up to 10 years.
