Новости за 12.10.2016

IT and engineering salaries in the U.S. rose nearly 4% in 2015, the second-highest annual increase since 2010, according to a survey from IEEE-USA.

There's a lot of clap-trap going around about what could be wrong with the lithium-ion batteries in the dozens of Note7s that overheated, smoked, and even caught fire in original and replacement units.

Hard drives might take a back seat to SSDs when it comes to sex appeal, but when it comes to space on the cheap, Seagate’s BarraCuda line will turn heads.

Determining the total cost of ownership (TCO) of business printers involves much more than comparing purchase prices. Over a printer’s lifetime, the impact of its ongoing costs can far outweigh any initial expenditure. We discussed some of the basic considerations of TCO in an earlier post, but to fully understand the economics of a printer purchase, buyers must consider a variety of complex expense factors, both capital and operational.

Blockchain technology began as a validating technology for bitcoin digital currency. It created a record of digital events distributed across different participants or entities involved in a transaction. Now blockchain is being pursued to provide global authenticity and security for any type of data and transactions.

The White House sees artificial intelligence as an increasingly critical technology that can fight cyberattacks, upgrade weapons of war, improve health care and even unclog traffic for the commute home.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is rejecting claims that his country is behind any U.S. election-related hacking, saying "hysteria" is fueling the allegations.

Resource-strapped IT teams are constantly being asked to do less with more and demonstrate their value in hard dollars. Fortunately, some seemingly small and not-so-obvious changes can have significant impacts on efficiency and productivity at the office.

The public sector is undergoing a digital transformation. Driven by budget cuts, maturing technology, and customer demand, government agencies are slowly adopting the same solutions private enterprises use to streamline business operations and deliver better service. 

Conventional wisdom has long held that for small and medium businesses, bigger or more complex print jobs should be outsourced to a commercial printer. But is that still the case? Due to advancements in office MFP technology, perhaps not.

Teleworking is no longer a perk of the privileged, it’s the new face of the modern workplace. The regular work-at-home population has grown more than 100 percent over the last decade, and 3.7 million employees now work from home at least half the time.

The explosion-implosion of Samsung's premier Galaxy Note7 line may boost sales of Apple's iPhone, analysts said today, but the Cupertino, Calif. company is unlikely to publicly gloat over its rival's troubles or leverage them to push its own smartphone.

Ahhh -- the enterprise file sharing space (EFSS), a sector awash with more vendors and more confusion than you can shake a stick at. From the pure-play vendors who are "all-in" in the public cloud (Box and Dropbox), to the vendors who offer EFSS as an adjunct to their core platform (Microsoft and Google) to those who offer a hybrid differentiation (Egnyte and Accellion, for example). What is a customer to do when faced with such choice?

There's not a huge amount of love lost between Australia and New Zealand. From this Kiwi's perspective, the fact that we seem to beat them in every sport that matters and that they're always keen to call our successful actors, rock bands and racehorses their own would lead readers to assume that I find it hard to celebrate successful Aussie tech. Nothing could be further form the truth, however, and I've been a big fan of Atlassian for a very long time.

The internet of insecure things just keeps getting murkier and more problematic. Researchers have determined that hackers are abusing a 12-year-old vulnerability in OpenSSH to attack the ‘internet of unpatchable things’.

It's been a rough few months for Mobileye, maker of the assisted driving platform used in cars from automaker Tesla. The two have been at odds over what caused recent Tesla accidents, with the car maker blaming Mobileye's system.

As mobility becomes the new norm, organizations are understandably seeking the most appropriate blend between protection and usability. After all, even though security needs to remain at the core of whatever route the enterprise elects, IT leadership is well aware that whenever usability is significantly impacted, the user base will find workarounds.

Does anyone remember the olden days when Microsoft would seemingly try to induce analysts to try to skew results to help create market dominance? That’s part of what the anti-trust case was about, but I digress.

While business intelligence software like Tableau helps companies better understand the data that they have saved up in systems of record like databases and CRM software, it can be hard to get the entire picture of a business from the plethora of different sources available.

It's not a stretch to say that most organizations have at least some old hardware and software still in use. An old computer that's still chugging along, running an old operating system and perhaps an application that is hard to replace, doesn't necessarily raise a red flag with IT staff. Why spend money on new equipment or software if what's already in-house is adequate and functioning?

Microsoft may need a refresher course on what constitutes good software support.

Samsung Electronics cut its revenue and profit forecast for the third quarter after the disastrous launch of its flagship Galaxy Note7 smartphone, which the company had to recall and eventually stopped producing after reports of overheating batteries.

Intel has introduced a company-branded commercial drone, the Falcon 8+, for North American markets, with the aim to lead in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market, particularly in the commercial segment.

A University of California IT employee whose job is being outsourced to India recently wrote Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for help.

Deploying new software to production can be hard -- really hard. If you’re among the many businesses adopting new infrastructure and deployment technology today, you’re keenly aware of how difficult it can be. Even as you adopt modern devops tools to streamline development, test, deployment, and ongoing management, and to bring development and operations teams closer together, it often seems you're only creating new silos.