An Accellion Thanksgiving!
An article in CIO reminds us all of the importance of information sharing and collaboration in successful organizations. The need to share and collaborate is not new at all. We can go back to 1620 when...
View ArticleNew Research to Drive Enterprise Mobile Policies
With so many organizations wondering how to support the boom of mobile workers, we recently hosted a sponsored webinar, “Empowering the BYOD Workforce”, to provide insight into the state of mobile...
View ArticleGambling, Dropbox, and Box Top IT’s Most Banned Apps List
No one would be shocked to learn that organizations aren’t big fans of employees playing online poker or roulette on the job. Which is why, when 1,200 IT decisions makers at private companies were...
View ArticleGet Ahead of the Curve with Cloud based Collaboration
According to analyst firm, Enterprise Strategy Group, the enterprise cloud based file sharing revolution is being driven not by IT, but by end users – individuals who need to access and share data...
View ArticleBYOD Grabs Headlines within the Legal Community
A topic that concerns every law firm CIO and IT manager today is whether to permit legal professionals to bring their own computing devices to work, for work. In other words, to support BYOD or not to...
View ArticleAre Consumer-based Apps Multiplying Within your Organization?
Dropbox, Box, YouSendIt, Google Drive, Evernote, Skype, Google Hangouts. These are just some of the apps that Delyn Simon – a 42-year old executive – rattled off to Quentin Hardy at The New York Times...
View ArticleIs Your Organization’s Productivity Keeping Pace?
Employees are more productive than ever. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, worker productivity grew 80 percent from 1973 to 2011, and has risen 25 percent in the past 10 years alone. This...
View ArticleYour Deleted Cloud Files Are Far From Gone
It happens every day: individuals on the go turn to free cloud file sharing services to quickly share and access files on mobile devices. The use of these free cloud services including Dropbox and Box...
View ArticleDo You Know Where Your Data Is?
Cloud-based file sharing and collaboration solutions are ripe for the picking, but what’s right for one organization might not be right for another. Accellion presented the pros and cons of various...
View ArticleThe Effects of Mobile on the Enterprise
Did you know that as smartphone use increases in a particular industry, the number of data breaches rise as well? Enterprises want their employees to use mobile devices, but the data security concerns...
View ArticlePRISM and Privacy: Reinforcing IT Instincts
The top-secret National Security Administration (NSA) data mining program isn’t so secret anymore, and on Friday, July 18, it was reported by Reuters that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court...
View ArticleGetting jumpy about the cloud?
I read an excellent article in The Register that, for me, was a leap forward in understanding the issue of data sovereignty. The author, Aaron Milne, makes the killer point that it doesn’t matter who...
View ArticleSharePoint on a Mobile Device – Can’t Get There From Here?
The widespread use of Microsoft SharePoint has made it a must-have tool for information and knowledge workers. However, with the increasing use of mobile devices in the workplace, employees want...
View ArticleDisconnected: IT and business users
“Those doctors and their latest toys. Prima donnas all of them!” At a conference last year an IT professional, from a large, Mid-West healthcare provider, uttered this phrase as we discussed how mobile...
View ArticleAre your employees gambling on the public cloud?
How would you feel if a competitor picked up your product specs? An investor got a copy of your quarterly financials before earnings? An employee’s personnel file ended up with the press? Not great?...
View ArticleAre you HIPAA Compliant?
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule is now in full effect. While the Rule technically went live back in March, as of September 23, 2013 organizations can be held accountable for noncompliance and face fines of up...
View ArticleDeparting Employees are an IT Nightmare
When an employee leaves your company, whether on good terms or not, the last thing you want is them walking out of the door with proprietary company documents. Yet, it’s happening more than you might...
View ArticleBox.com – Three Strikes; You’re Out
Dan Tynan, a reporter, is playing the role of umpire. No, he hasn’t been on the field for the Red Sox/Cardinals world series games, but he is calling the shots when it comes to security &...
View ArticleThe SharePoint Mobile Disconnect: Android Devices Left Out in the Cold
The surge in popularity of Android devices has caught many organizations off guard, wondering how to marry Android devices with content stored in SharePoint. According to IDC, Android OS posted a 163%...
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