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Your smartphone just became even more useful in the event of a disaster. If you are in an area that has been declared a disaster zone, you can now use your smartphone to apply for federal assistance.

Outbound spam is a growing problem. What is meant by outbound spam and how is it different from the spam you well know? According to Osterman Research, inbound spam has been a problem for about the past nine years and represents upwards of 80 percent of all email. Outbound spam, in Osterman Research’s view, is a rapidly growing problem for service providers who act as “unwilling ...

In the past two decades, Indiana Wesleyan University evolved from a small liberal arts college with 1,000 students to a university with campuses spread over three states. However, with this growth came data backup and restore challenges that the university’s legacy tape library wasn’t designed to accommodate.

According to the Identify Theft Research Center, data breaches involving personally identifiable information (PII) increased over 600 percent this past year with over 222 million records being compromised. The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) believes that few events can damage a company’s reputation and create mistrust than breaches to PII. Beyond that, breaches are expensive: the Ponemon Institute’s...

According to a recent study by the Enterprise Strategy Group, 60 percent of enterprises have a desktop virtualization strategy and 45 percent of them will have virtualized 50 percent of their desktops within the next three years. But despite the smaller economic impact of cleaning or rebuilding infected virtual endpoints, most usage scenarios of virtual desktops have a risk profile nearly identical to that of physical desktops...