Gaming is not an addiction

It’s common to hear parents complain that their children are “addicted” to video games. Some researchers even claim these games are comparable to illegal drugs in terms of their influence…

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Why an Incident Response Plan Is Not Enough for Network Security

Cyber-attacks grow steadily each year. Hackers have managed to make the internet their playground, holding the data they steal to ransom and getting pay-offs worth millions of dollars. In order…

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Fake news alert! Internet breaches are not cloud breaches

Hacked accounts are in the news on practically a daily basis: Yahoo uncovered another massive cyberattack, with more than 1 billion user accounts compromised, making it the largest breach in…

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Latest survey data warns SMBs are not using automation for cloud backups

Almost 70% of small businesses in a survey from B2B analyst and reviews firm Clutch say they rely on their cloud storage provider for backups, with only 15% opting for…

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New Data Shows Instagram Stories is Not Slowing Snapchat Use – Yet

It’s only been two weeks since the launch of Instagram’s new Snapchat-cloning ‘Stories’ option, but already some have declared it a Snapchat killer, a means for Facebook to finally fend…

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I’m Not a Fan of Final Fantasy, But I’m Getting Final Fantasy 15

One editor talks about why he plans on taking the plunge withFinal Fantasy 15, as someone that’s never really liked the series leading up to the new game’s release. I…

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Why the resiliency of the mainframe is not a surprise in the cloud computing age

Cynics have been foretelling the imminent demise of the mainframe since the early 1990s, but all the evidence continues to point to the contrary. Today, 96% of the world’s banks…

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Why financial firms are missing out by not embracing the cloud

The financial sector’s high security and compliance standards have traditionally made it something of a laggard in the adoption of cloud computing. Yet there are indications that momentum is shifting…

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Why the resiliency of the mainframe is not a surprise in the cloud computing age

Cynics have been foretelling the imminent demise of the mainframe since the early 1990s, but all the evidence continues to point to the contrary. Today, 96% of the world’s banks…

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Software defined data centres will be vital for business agility – but not just yet

Analyst house Gartner argues the software defined data centre (SDDC), otherwise known as the virtual data centre (VDC), is not the right choice for every IT organisation today – but…

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