This is the first ever Computer Geekly Weekly IT news roundup video where TechFluff's Hermione Way picks the best articles from the past week and with a tongue-in-cheek twist.
With the potential to free staff from the confines of the office and make them more efficient and productive on the move, mobile communications are moving up the corporate agenda. But, while enabling smarter working practices, mobile technologies can also increase security risks. An exclusive Computer Weekly roundtable, in association with Vodafone, discussed how organisations can address these issues.
Renowned leadership expert and best-selling author Dr. Stephen R. Covey addressed an audience of leading CIOs at the CIO 100 Symposium in August through a new model for telepresence-enabled lecture services.
IT and communications systems are evolving rapidly in order to offer users the fastest and most efficient tools to do their jobs.
Yet these jobs themselves are just as challenging as ever, if not more so. Today’s increasing business pressures and tighter budgets are forcing firms to change the way they work and extend the boundaries of the organisation to include mobile and home working.
Recent research from Gartner has suggested that for organisations, virtualisation will be the highest-impact trend-changing infrastructure and operations through 2012.
Key drivers are a much-needed simplification of the business infrastructure, the drive towards Green IT, and let’s face it, for many, a sheer naked drive to consolidate resources and increase efficiency. But whatever you’re trying to virtualise – whether it is storage, servers or desktops - it has to be managed effectively.
Integrated IT systems could have prevented the collapse of Barings Bank, says Nick Leeson, the trader who hid £826m in losses that led to the bank’s demise in 1995.
An industry-wide collaborative approach to solving common security problems is the best approach to addressing cyber threats, according to RSA, the security division of EMC.
Internet banking is growing at a phenomenal rate bringing with it the growth of internet fraud. Cronto banking believe they have devised a system that will make transfers secure with the use of mobile phones.
