Email security: Spam rate falls below 50% 29. July 2015 by Ralph Novak According to the latest intelligence report by the IT security specialist Symantec, the share of spam mail of the total amount of emails sent worldwide fell below 50% in June 2015. This represents the lowest level since September 2003.
Mobile data: Data volume expected to double by the end of 2015 29. July 2015 by Ralph Novak According to market researchers at Gartner, the global mobile data volume is forecast to reach 52 million terabytes (TB) for the entire year of 2015. Compared with 2014, this equates to an increase of 59%. This growth is expected to continue until at least 2018 and reach a volume of 173 million TB.
Deep Web: Even Google has no idea of the phenomenon 29. July 2015 by Ralph Novak Like an iceberg, of which only the tip is visible, the Internet harbours a huge amount of data that goes entirely unnoticed. Only a small part of it poses a serious problem, however.
Customer service: Customers want flexible communication 24. July 2015 by Ralph Novak Consumers expect companies to be available at all times and provide quick responses via various channels, including via social media and video. This was a result of a study entitled “Autonomous Customer 2015”, which BT and Avaya conducted with 5,500 participants in ten countries.
Social networks: Insider attacks take advantage of professional contacts 24. July 2015 by Ralph Novak Social networks for professionals are not secure either; indeed, they are rather popular with online fraudsters. In this area, people often give strangers access to so much personal and business data that they can quickly become the victims of cybercrime, warns Raimund Genes, CTO of Trend Micro.
Market analysis: Prospects remain positive despite falling PC sales 24. July 2015 by Ralph Novak According to the latest data of the market research institute Gartner, 68.4 million PCs were delivered worldwide in the second quarter of 2015. This represents a decrease of 9.5% compared with the same quarter of the previous year. Analysts forecast a 4.4% reduction in sales for the full year of 2015.
Warehousing: Lack of transparency leads to rising costs 24. July 2015 by Ralph Novak Many companies could manage their stock of inventory more efficiently and boost profitability through real-time responses to increases in demand or disruptions to the supplier network. However, the annual study “Vendor Managed Inventory Strategies”, which Gate Point Research conducted on behalf of E2open, points out some fatal trends in recent years.
Internet trends: Increasing mobility is changing network structures 24. July 2015 by Ralph Novak The future of telecommunications will see an unprecedented increase in the demand for networking due to the fusion of traditional industries with the Internet. This will result in comprehensive networking, which will feature high data rates of good quality and at competitive prices. This was forecasted by the “11th Analyst Conference of 2015” organised by …
Data centres: A third of all servers are redundant 17. July 2015 by Ralph Novak Some 30% of all servers are in operation in data centres despite the fact that they are actually no longer required. This was the finding of a study conducted by the consulting company Anthesis Group in collaboration with Jonathan Koomay, a research fellow at Stanford University.
Problems with adware: Over 12 billion alerts worldwide 17. July 2015 by Ralph Novak Whether on a Mac, Android or PC, all Internet users are affected by adware. Between April and June, Kaspersky Lab identified more than 100 million adware alerts in Germany alone, that’s almost 8% of all alerts triggered by adware worldwide. The analysis is based on anonymous data, taken from the global Kaspersky Security Network (KSN).
