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The Past, Present, and Future of Computer Firewall Protection

Interestingly enough, the term “firewall” comes from a very literal place. In the 1800’s a firewall was literally a wall that was built to confine any potential fires and keep them from spreading. They were popular in urban cities and places where buildings were close together and thus were at a great risk of a […]

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User Experience Assurance Is Big Data Job One

Assuring user experience should be the top priority among big data projects for enterprises and cloud service providers. Megatrends such as mobile, cloud and social drive the need for application awareness via better visibility and control. With survey after survey showing availability as the #1 priority, spending on user experience assurance, also known as application […]

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Technology in the Elementary Classroom

Remember sitting in a classroom with your classmates, all facing the chalkboard, listening to the teacher drone on and on about the chapter you had just read? That classroom is a distant memory. Today’s classroom bares little resemblance to even the ones of a decade ago. Now you see student sitting in peer learning groups, […]

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Simplicity or Complexity?

Oh! we are so lucky to be in an era where tasks are quickly completed. Thanks to those innovative developers who made our lives easier, we seem to be saving lot of time with these software systems or solutions. Products like Excel, Word or PowerPoint with which we are able to maintain, update or delete […]

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BYOD: Opening Up a Dialogue Between IT and the End User

If a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programme is not properly managed and implemented, then things can potentially go badly wrong for employer and employee. Employees who bring their own Smartphone or iPad to work and expect to be able to access the same apps and programmes they do on company devices may find easy […]

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The Give and Take of BYOD and MDM

We know that allowing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has the potential to increase employees’ productivity and also keep the workforce happy as well as improve customer satisfaction and engagement with potential customers, but the whole concept of BYOD is clearly not without significant risks and managing a BYOD programme can bring its own set […]