2014 sees 5 ways Cloud Services can reduce security fears
Though the growth of enterprise use of cloud services has been phenomenal in the 2013, owing to some of the perceived security shortcomings continue to be the biggest hindrance for companies in adopting the services. The cloud explosion is evident as cloud services have already become a part of the corporate infrastructure more often by means of workers adopting the services without any approval from the IT department.
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Human slave trade now under the scanner through Big Data
Technology is for the humans and hence any innovation helping humankind is embraced immediately. This advent has impact in more ways than one what with the Human traffickers now staying at the front of the tech curve from burner phones to Bitcoin. However many anti-trafficking agencies outside US still use the old school methods of spreadsheets and paper making analyzing and sharing of data nearly impossible and highly complicated.
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Now a cloud apps security initiative on Mobile Devices from IBM
IBM has succeeded in improving the security of cloud applications and mobile users through its newly invented and patented technology. This new technology helps businesses support secure transactions by preventing mobile devices from accessing many a malicious software code even after its encryption much later after it became infected.
The BYOD trend was seeing more and more employee-owned devices entering the workplace premises and connecting itself to corporate data, service and applications. IBM developed this innovation in order to break this practice. In case you want to look up the invention (U.S. Patent #8,341,747) it is listed as a “method to provide a secure virtual machine launcher”
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Yammer vs. Jive: It looks unlikely to always get what you want
Yammer was in spotlight after its June 2012 acquisition by Microsoft. After Microsoft’s deployment of enterprise-level social media in SharePoint 2010 which was appeared quite shaky, the company has been signaling to the business community about its seriousness regarding enterprise social media and how its rational take on how the world wouldn’t be waiting for Microsoft to create the right tool in the right time.
Yammer shows the same advantages like that of SharePoint online. Being a cloud-based technology, there is no hardware investments required or even any subsequent maintenance. It can be deployed swiftly; administration and security are also covered; and the platform easily scales as needed without the need of any intervention.
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