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This article is part of the August 2012 issue of Compliance and risk
Public Wi-Fi is beginning to find its way into every corner of the UK. It is no longer the domain of the American-style coffee shop, with pubs, retailers and even theme parks offering their own connections. However, this is not enough for the data-hungry devices in most people’s pockets, and both consumers and business users are looking for connections on the move, not just over an espresso. Technology has now been developed to take advantage of existing residential Wi-Fi connections, enabling customers signed up for home broadband deals with their internet service provider (ISP) to use other customers' routers to connect to the internet on the move. In the UK, BT has its Fon offering, in France there are similar deals available from three providers, and now a Swedish firm called Anyfi Networks is testing its own software to enable the process without having to sign in through a web portal each time you want to connect to a different network. The idea makes sense. As Anyfi says on its website, why invest billions of dollars in beefing up cellular networks ... Access >>>
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Compliance, risk and the coming EU data protection framework: a CISO's perspective
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Compliance and risk managers in Europe are facing one of the biggest challenges for decades as the region moves to a new data protection framework
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Data virtualisation on rise as ETL alternative for data integration
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The Phone House and Novartis have turned to data virtualisation from Denodo and Composite to gain a single logical view of disparate data sources.
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Compliance, risk and the coming EU data protection framework: a CISO's perspective
by Warwick Ashford
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The implications for storage of EU data protection regulation
by Mathieu Gorge
EU data protection regulations are set to change, and the implications for data storage are manifold and include far-reaching effects on in-house and external cloud storage.
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The implications for storage of EU data protection regulation
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Law firm's infrastructure overhaul lowers costs, improves productivity
by Archana Venkatraman
A law firm upgrades its legacy systems and deployed a new data back up and disaster recovery strategy. Here’s how it lowered costs and improved IT efficiency.
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Are shared private broadband connections the future of Wi-Fi on the go?
by Jennifer Scott
We look at whether the growing trend of software opening up home routers for public Wi-Fi consumption is the future
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Law firm's infrastructure overhaul lowers costs, improves productivity
by Archana Venkatraman
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