Insider Threats are a Top Security Concern
One of the biggest security threats businesses have had to cope with recently are what are referred to as insider threats. Defined as malicious activity done from within a company, no business is immune to them, which means they can be hard to manage. When companies define their cyber security . . .
Security Risks Associated With IoT
The latest technological advances allow people to communicate and interact with each other and their devices in ways they never thought possible, creating a world of limitless potential. Although IoT, or the Internet of Things, adds a layer of convenience to businesses of all sizes, problems can arise. In particular, . . .
Hard-Drive Suppliers Crippled by Thailand Flooding
How important is a Disaster Recovery Plan to your Network Support Business in Boston? It's been three weeks since monsoon run-off flowed over more than 1,000 factories across central Thailand. Flood waters are only slightly receding, which leaves the world’s largest computer makers without being able to provide a date . . .
Managed Services for your Boston Small Business
We thought this information might be useful to Boston area businesses like ours. The Australian-based crowdsourcing website for creative projects DesignCrowd has received a $3 million investment from Starfish Ventures. DesignCrowd allows anyone to upload a design project, set a deadline, set a budget and invite the platform’s group designers. . . .
US Government May Use Cloud Soon
A new U.S. Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap draft sets out action items that government IT authorities say will speed the adoption of safe and secure cloud implementations suitable for their use but is cloud computing ready? While popular among consumers who love their Google Apps, Facebook, and Dropbox, cloud . . .
What’s the Future of Computing Look Like?
What's going on in California now will have an impact on Boston Computer Networking Support sometime in the, not so far off, future. Somewhere behind the thick walls of IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, scientists are busy teaching a computer chip to learn from what it sees, kind . . .
Harvard Business School Makes $50K Award
Will the $50,000 Harvard Business School awarded to student entrepreneurs help your Boston Small Business? We'd like to think so. The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS picked seven winners for what is the first round of its Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Funding, covering the 2011-2012 academic year, according . . .
HP Backs Off Spin Off
Interesting news for IT Consultants in Boston: Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman, by abandoning a proposal to spin off the company’s market-leading personal-computer unit, took a step toward unwinding the moves that led to her predecessor’s ouster. In her first major decision since taking over back in September, . . .
Broadband Core Service of Time Warner
Here's something about Time Warner Cable that we thought we'd share with Boston Area Technology Support providers . Time Warner Cable continues to feel the loss of video subscribers, but it’s trying to make up for the decline by betting more heavily on broadband as its core service. The cable . . .
Facebook Setting up Shop in the Arctic?
If you're an IT Manager in the Boston Area would you like to move closer to the Arctic Circle? Facebook is going to build a server farm in Sweden on the edge of the Arctic Circle, the first non-U.S location. The site of the farm was chosen specifically because it's . . .
Do you know Siri?
Those who provide IT Service to the Boston Area might want to share this with their clients. In case you don't yet know about Siri here's the scoop. According to Apple, your wish is Siri's command. Sounds a bit like a Genie in a bottle or the voice of a . . .
