Eset Endpoint Security Pt Br

Utilities are renewing their interest in geographic information systems (GIS) software as a means to leverage geographic information for business execution rather…

According to new research from Forrester, 2016 will prove to be the most consequential year for companies adapting to digitally savvy, empowered…

The need for secure, private, multi-site connectivity will create sustained demand for multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) virtual private network (VPN) solutions over…

Windows 10 is poised to become the most widely installed version of Windows ever, following on the path of Windows XP and…

Worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow at a 17 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from $698.6 billion…

Advances in innovative cutting-edge technology for the entertainment industry is rapidly advancing the march toward virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR), new research from Futuresource Consulting reveals. The new report examines the potential of the technology across a wide spectrum of applications, including the…

Tablet shipment are expected to decline 8 percent in 2015, representing a notable slowdown according to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker — more than double IDC’s earlier projections. Tablet shipments are now expected to reach 212 million,…

According to research from Computer Economics, the financial services sector is leading all other vertical industries in increasing its IT spend, as the final vestiges of the 2008 crisis appear to have now been completely shaken off. Armed with strong balance sheets and a positive…

Washington, DC and London, UK – The state of the global innovation economy is alive and well, according to a recent survey report from Leading Edge Only conducted by BizTechReports. The survey features insights from organizations actively developing and implementing new technologies and solutions across a range of…

Innovation is not an event.  It is an ongoing series of decisions that take an organization committed to creativity and service out of its comfort zone again and again and again. It is also about making choices about where to innovate…and where to build on…

Security will always be the responsibility of enterprise executives charged with protecting critical assets. However, the complexity of today’s threat landscape, coupled with the speed at which new attacks and malware unleashed against individuals and institutions, is making Do-it-Yourself security strategies – which manage an…

In the face of an increasingly saturated smartphone market, mobile operators seeking new revenue streams are finding profitable new opportunities by leveraging existing investments in Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks to take advantage of connected home strategies. To optimize their offerings, however, mobile operators would…

CDW and HP recently hosted a gathering of high-level technologists to dine, network, and discuss the role of SDN and its potential for their organizations. Software-defined networks (SDNs) are receiving a lot of attention from IT executives and networking professionals today. CDW and HP recently…

Global manufacturing companies are beginning to recognize the business value of technologies that can increase asset efficiency, but deployment is lagging, according to a new Infosys study. Infosys and the Institute for Industrial Management (FIR) at the University of Aachen, Germany (RWTH) conducted the global…

Virtualization is a driving factor for the purchase of new security solutions, according to 76 percent of respondents from a recent survey by IHS Inc. subsidiary, Infonetics Research. The survey examined 137 medium and large businesses North America which operate their own data centers.   “The battle…

The enterprise network of the immediate future promises to open the door to a whole new era of innovation and productivity, as wireless access becomes the infrastructure on-ramp of choice, video traffic enables more intuitive communication and underlying infrastructures become more agile and intelligent. Indeed, optimizing enterprise networks…

For enterprises in the market for IP telephony, the cost of on-premises IP telephony are declining by 20 percent to 40 percent depending on the size of the rollout, according to Nemertes Research’s annual benchmark survey. The bad news: implementation costs are increasing in line…

Much has been written about the seismic shifts underway in the chief information officer (CIO) role. Only a few years ago, the duties of the CIO largely focused on procuring and managing information technology investments. These days, however, CIOs are tasked with leveraging technology so…

 Is your organization “future ready” — and what does the term “future-ready” really mean? Advances in technology — and the impact of technology on the way business is done — have triggered a fundamental transformation in the enterprise space over the past decade or so.…

Cloud computing services are now a critical ingredient for enterprises to deliver better applications with greater flexibility to win, serve, and retain customers. Business leaders and developers have traditionally led the charge, but CIOs are now on board. In a recent study, Cloud Computing, Forrester finds…

The Computer Economics 2015 IT Salary Report anticipates wages for typical IT workers will rise about 3.0 percent in the coming year, an increase that while modest by historical standards should yield real wage growth in the low-inflation environment. The study shows that even at…

Gartner, Inc. said that IT leaders have a significant opportunity to contribute to the business by creating a more flexible work environment that accommodates the needs of the business consumer. “Starting with the rise of PCs and the internet era, users have a greater influence…

Leading Edge Only (www.leadingedgeonly.com), an innovation marketplace dedicated to matching innovation seekers with innovation providers, has launched a new “innovation platform” designed to expose new ideas and solutions to the global corporate market. Leading Edge Only, or LEO, provides the world’s leading innovation platform used…

Attention San Francisco Bay Area Technology Executives! CIO magazine invites IT executives from the Bay Area to join us for dinner on Tuesday, October 21st to discuss the evolving role of Wide-Area Networks (WANs) in today’s converging infrastructure environment. This dinner is a great opportunity…

According to a report on The Future Trust from Technicolor, companies that have not “mobile- optimized” their infrastructures, applications, business processes – even their employee- and customer-facing websites – face an array of marketplace risks and missed opportunities that can be measured in the hundreds…

A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that revenues generated from Smart Home services are set to reach a global market value of $71 billion by 2018, rising from $33 billion last year. The new report, Smart Home Ecosystems & the Internet of Things, found…

According to a White Paper on Technicolor’s The Future Trust, the Internet of Things, or IoT, has become a bit like a “Rorschach Test.” People see what they want to see when the term is invoked. At its root IoT is about devices talking to…

The urgencies and demands associated with making it through the day often prevent enterprise technology executives from fully understanding the issues on the horizon that will fundamentally transform the way business is done.  This happens despite the fact that forces are already at work to…

Interactive Executive Agenda Explores the New Success Factors for Gaining Strategic Value from IT Investments CIO magazine contributing editors Abbie Lundberg and Lane Cooper have been tapped to moderate the general sessions for CSC ASPIRE 2014 conference at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Florida…

CIO Magazine, Network World and Computerworld team up with CDW to Co-Host Interactive Executive Panel Discussion and Networking Event with Wine Tasting. On September 23rd, 2014, Lane Cooper, editorial director of BizTechReports, will moderate the Enterprise Collaboration Summit in Washington DC. The evening event —…

Pressure to reduce costs while elevating the level of services government agencies provide to their citizens is defining how federal, state and local officials implement their technology transformation initiatives.  Not only are many agencies learning from private sector initiatives on the adoption of public, private…

The financial services sector has always been an attractive target to hackers and malware developers of all stripes.  Regardless of motivation — whether for financial gain, political disruption, or plain-old mischievousness — penetrating and compromising systems of retail, commercial, securities and other financial institutions has…

While Google Plus can’t match Facebook for either number of users or intensity of usage, it offers marketers the opportunity to build deeper social relationships than you might think, especially when compared with Twitter. In fact, Forrester data shows Google Plus has nearly the same…

Health care providers in India are expected to spend $1.08 billion US Dollars (USD) on IT products and services in 2014, an increase of 4 percent over 2013, according to Gartner, Inc. This forecast includes spending by health care providers (includes hospitals and hospital systems,…

The need to enhance communication and collaboration in the workplace to increase employee engagement, accelerate decision-making, and boost overall productivity is driving the global enterprise social networking market. Organizations are integrating purposeful social collaboration functionality into workflows to dynamically connect people and information at the…

Here is a little good news for CIOs who feel they are losing control to non-tech execs making liberal use of their corporate credit cards. According to Forrester, while CMOs have certainly taken on a larger role when it comes to influencing business technology, data…

To lead…or to support.  That has been the perennial question that has dogged the most senior positions in IT since being accepted into the C-level suite.  As we approach the mid-point of the decade, the enterprise technology environment is undergoing a fundamental transformation.  CIOs are…

Web conferencing vendors are looking to tap the significant opportunities created by the emergence of disruptive new services, mobility and social collaboration. The transition from audio-only communication to richer audio, web and video collaboration is urging market participants to offer web conferencing solutions that not…

Gartner predicts that, through 2018, less than 0.01 percent of consumer mobile apps will be considered a financial success by their developers. This is partly because consumers are increasingly turning to recommendation engines, friends, social networking or advertising to discover mobile applications rather than sorting…

Mobile ads have come on strong in 2013, and they’ll continue to rise in 2014. A new report from research firm eMarketer revealed that mobile ad spending will reach $9.6 billion in 2013, more than double what it was in 2012. That trend should continue…

Organizations’ need to drive innovation and growth, coupled with a limited budget and the mainstreaming of consuming technology “as-a-service”, is creating the perfect condition for integrated platform solutions. Susan Tan, research director at Gartner, provides advice on how these integrated ready-to-deploy solution stacks provide enterprises…

‘Tis the season to prognosticate. International Data Corporation (IDC) has presented the first of its annual predictions for the coming year in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. IDC’s predictions for 2014 were heavily influenced by the 3rd Platform, the industry’s emerging platform for…

Executives at organizations are overwhelmingly confident in their readiness to combat security threats, but may not be prepared for dangers linked to new technology models and increasingly sophisticated threats, according to a new study released today by CompTIA, the non-profit association for the information technology…

Karl Collins, vice president of technical services and infrastructure at SavaSeniorCare Administrative Services, has been one of the most interesting participants in the executive roundtable series that I get to moderate with CIO magazine, Network World and Computerworld. When I come to the San Francisco…

Frost & Sullivan has created an interesting resource for those CIOs who are committed to leveraging IT for playing offense — not just cutting costs defensively — for their organizations. But first, a little background: Companies across industries realize information and communication technologies (ICT) play…

I have almost taken it as an article of faith that small- and medium-sized business are leading the way in cloud adoption. The seemingly unassailable logic was that these firms tend to be unburdened by investments in legacy systems, and are therefore free to take…

Burberry, Nike, Rolls-Royce. These are firms that understand true digital business, having embraced digital technologies to fundamentally alter the way they bring value to customers. But this list of leaders is short, and for most firms, the scope of digital transformation is vast with many…

The use of cloud computing is projected to account for the majority of new IT spending by 2016, according to a recent Gartner, Inc. report. Additionally, 2016 is forecast to be a defining year for cloud, as private cloud begins to give way to hybrid…

According to research funded by Wandera, a provider of Mobile Data Optimization (MDO), the global workforce is driving runaway growth in data usage while creating an increasing cost and management headache for enterprise mobility teams. Both domestic and roaming data usage are significantly up (8%…

Since last September, hackers have targeted major U.S. financial institutions and affected prestigious organizations, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Company, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo, USA Today reports. Following an August outage that shut down stock trading for three hours and put hundreds…

A whole lot of digital ink has been spilled describing the importance of innovation and agility to organizations that expect to thrive in today’s turbulent economy. This is held as a truism across all industries, but is especially true for those operating in dynamic environments,…

Frost & Sullivan noted recently that businesses in North America are expected to turn more to IP telephony and Unified Communiation and Collaboration services as they look to mitigate the cost and hassle of integrating multi-vendor solutions on their premises, enabling greater flexibility during growth…

Even though 4G’s share of cellular subscriptions stood at a meager 2.9% at the end of 2Q 2013, it is expected to account for slightly more than 20% of the total data consumed on mobile networks worldwide this year. After surpassing 3G networks in 2016,…

What makes a country ripe for eCommerce expansion? There are the obvious macroeconomic conditions and consumer market size, but really, it’s more than that. For firms to understand the 360-degree view of a region’s online retail readiness, factors such as consumer payment behavior, courier infrastructure,…

Worldwide PC shipment forecasts for 2013 are now projecting a 9.7 percent decrease year-over-year, due to the continued expansion of mobile device options and the end of the emerging market growth on which the industry had been relying, deepening the longest market contraction on record,…

Elected and appointed municipal leaders around the world increasingly are addressing the challenge of improving citizen services in budget constrained environments. While technology long has played a critical role in improving the efficiency and productivity of city workforces, a concept called the Internet of Things…

Everywhere you turn these days, you’ll hear plenty of buzz about exponential growth in business intelligence (BI) and analytics space.  But unlike some IT trends that are embryonic enough to be one part business case and nine parts vaporware, BI and analytics are mission-critical solutions…

Sixty-five percent of CIOs believe that the main barrier preventing organizations from achieving continuous optimization of IT costs was related to mindset, according to a recent Gartner Inc., survey of 2,053 CIOs. After years of tactical cost-cutting, it can be difficult to get everyone in…

The global service provider VoIP and IMS equipment market grew 30 percent in the second quarter of 2013 to reach $936 million, in part due to the North American VoLTE sector which grew 78 percent year-over-year, according to a recent Infonetics Research report. Additionally, the…

Security concerns are projected to drive 30 percent of all bring-your-own-device (BYOD) purchasing criteria by 2015, according to a recent Gartner, Inc. report. With consumer adoption and willingness to pay for antivirus software on mobile devices low and consumer use of personal mobile devices for…

Small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) are making major changes to their business models to take advantage of new technologies such as cloud and social media, in order to compete with large enterprises in global markets. Additionally, the number of SMEs that do business in six…

With the rise in consumption of video on mobile devices for work-related purposes, and the increasing pressure organizations are under to support and manage it, at least 60 percent of information workers are predicted to interact with content applications via a mobile device by 2015,…

We keep hearing about how very digital the global economy has become. And it is certainly true that the amount of business done electronically in the business-to-consumer (B2C) space has been astounding and pervasive. In the business-to-business (B2B) space there has also been a lot…

Chief Information Officers who expect to continue to play an influential role in the executive suite of their organizations will have to: • Be seen as proactive and engaged enablers of change in today’s dynamic business environment; • Anticipate user requirements and emerging technological capabilities;…

According to a recent market forecast by Forrester Research, the global tech market is expected to experience 5.4 percent growth in 2013 as a transition year before expected increased spending in 2014 will grow to 6.7 percent globally. According to Andrew Bartels, a Forrester vice…

According to a new report from Gartner, 30 percent of businesses will be directly or indirectly monetizing their information assets by trading, bartering or outright selling them by 2016 because of the high financial demands associated with storing them. The report indicates that these companies,…

Technology purchase intentions across a broad spectrum of North American businesses, educational institutions and government agencies increased 21.2 percent according to Harte-Hanks’ December 2012 Technology Purchase Index (TPI). Among specific technology areas, the latest index also shows a 15.4-percent increase in cloud initiatives, as well…

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 4.2 percent increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. The 2013 outlook for IT spending growth in U.S. dollars has been revised upward from 3.8…

Taking a hybrid approach that supports traditional and cloud-based IT solutions is key to business cloud adoption in China, according to the Strategy Analytics Business Cloud Strategies (BCS) service report. The new report, “Chinese Organizations Adopt SaaS and Other Business Clouds,” describes the extent to…

As the debate over the Fiscal Cliff rages on (or festers, depending on your point of view) we were wondering what impact this issue is having on the marketing plans of organizations that provide technology solutions to enterprise IT departments.   From December 3 to December…

Healthcare organizations face an uphill battle in their efforts to stop data breaches, according to the Third Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security by Ponemon Institute. The study, sponsored by sponsored by ID Experts, found that 94 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed…

Despite Pentagon cuts, Department of Defense (DoD) spending for command and control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) services totaled $20.89 billion last year. It will grow to$28 billion in 2017, according to Frost & Sullivan’s Aerospace & Defense practice. Continuing combat operations drives…

According to Frost & Sullivan, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) is the answer for meeting concerns about loss of privacy and data protection in Smart Metering and to meet European Union (EU) deadlines for deployment—a formula for a dramatic increase in demand for ICT and…

According to a new book from Forrester Research, Inc., the only way for established businesses to compete with digital disruptors is to start thinking and acting like one. The book, Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation, written by James McQuivey, a Forrester vice…

The consumerization of smart phones and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) are the biggest trends driving network security issues in the Middle East today, according to Frost & Sullivan. Frost addressed these threats to enterprise security and discussed enterprise security solutions and strategies at its conference, Middle East…

According to a new analysis from Frost & Sullivan, the Enterprise Social Media and Web 2.0 Market in 2010 experienced more than 20 percent growth, generating revenues of $28.6 million. It is expected to reach $126 million in 2017. Frost & Sullivan discussed how enterprises…

New research from Parks Associates indicates smart watch adoption has nearly doubled, from 4 percent of U.S. broadband households at the start of 2014 to 7 percent now — with 10 percent planning to buy a smart watch by mid-2016. “The wearables market is growing…

The Internet of Things (IoT) market will be responsible for 150 million unit shipments of multicore microcontroller unit (MCU) chips in 2015, according to a new market study by ABI Research. What’s more, ABI expects that number to rise to an impressive 1.3 billion units…