Cloud computing is penetrating multiple market sectors, which raises the important question how will it impact revenues for the companies that provide cloud-based services.
According to a recent IDC report the expected value of the U.S. cloud market will Continue reading “Cloud Services – Golden Times Still Ahead?” »
The number of Internet services is continuously increasing. This goes along with the need to create more user accounts, which have to be protected by adequate, ideally unique identifiers (ID) and passwords.
Today most Internet users have probably multiple IDs and passwords for their different accounts.
Who doesn’t feel overwhelmed by all of this? And honestly, we all are probably re-using our IDs and passwords over and over again, which however, may cause significant security holes. Continue reading “Single Sign-On Technology Boosts Password Security” »
The acronym “IaaS” is used for both “Infrastructure as a Service” that provides on-demand scalable technology and infrastructure and “for Information as a Service” that is discussed in this article.
Competition is progressively increasing in almost every market and information is becoming one of the most valuable business assets and for today’s businesses to function efficiently, information systems need to have access to correct data in real-time. Continue reading “Information as a Service – Setting your Business Apart” »
Phishing is the fraudulent act of sending emails (or phone calls), misleadingly claiming to be a legitimate business, to lure an individual into providing sensitive information such as banking information, social security numbers, credit card details and passwords that will be used for identity theft.
Cybercriminals may use social engineering to convince users to install malicious software or deceive them to reveal personal information. Continue reading “Cyber Security Threats IX – Phishing” »
Information technology (IT) departments are under increased pressure to improve productivity across broadening mobile networks and devices to support the proliferation of smartphones and tablets in the workplace. The process for IT to manage mobility within an enterprise is a series of successive know-hows that define the full mobility life cycle. Continue reading “Mobility as a Service (MaaS)” »
Progressively, business move their IT into the cloud to benefit from the broad range of possibilities, using Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to reach out to clients, manage data and develop intelligent business strategies that can keep up with rapidly developing technologies.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines cloud computing as having: Continue reading “Design of Cloud Migration” »
A computer virus is defined as a program that potentially causes damage to hardware, software or any data within a network. For businesses, it can drastically damage business operations, cooperation and client-vendor relationships. Continue reading “Cyber Security Threats IV – Viruses” »
More and more enterprises seek the help of third-parties to host business solutions rather than sourcing hardware and software themselves. The Software as a Service (SaaS) model allows those enterprises to get more efficient to achieve business agility. SaaS is reused across multiple channels, markets and customer segments. Continue reading “Business as a Service (BaaS) – The New Cloud Management Concept” »
Moving a software application to the cloud merely means running it in the web rather than on the traditional data center infrastructure.
The main advantages to migrate data and software operations to the cloud include Continue reading “Migrating the Cloud” »
Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are in general available as two main options: internally hosted EMRs or internet-based/cloud-based EMRs.
Internal EMRs are the traditional client server model that provides software locally on the client’s server (office or hospital network), in general, without data transmission or storage integration with remote systems.
The advantages of internal EMRs are that the user owns the application Continue reading “Electronic Medical Records II – What is a SaaS EMR?” »
