US company Splunk specialises in making machine data accessible, usable and valuable. The company is growing at high double-digit rates every year and its platform is used by 5,200 customers, including more than 50 of the Fortune 100. DJ Skillman leads Splunk’s technology and growth strategies in EMEA. He has technical experience of scaling the platform to handle large sites generating multiple terabytes of machine data every day.
15.Mar.2013 09:55
IT security is viewed by 71pc of business owners in Ireland as the biggest technology challenge they face today. While only 20pc consider supporting bring your own device (BYOD) a security challenge, Vodafone has warned that with a near 40pc smartphone activation rate the potential security risks of the mobile workforce aren’t fully understood.
13.Mar.2013 12:04
A new service launched by Google aims to assist website owners whose sites have been compromised with step-by-step videos and articles instructing them on how to address the issue.
13.Mar.2013 09:29
In February, international retail financial derivatives trading company the IG Group set up its new operation in Ireland. We spoke to chief operating officer Peter Hetherington about the changing face of technology and how it is transforming the online platform.
12.Mar.2013 10:59
Boylesports Online’s CEO Keith O’Loughlin knows his IT will stay the course, thanks to a smart punt on virtualisation. On the eve of the Cheltenham Festival, he explains why it’s horses for courses when it comes to picking a winner to provide the right technology to the business.
08.Mar.2013 06:00
By 2016, more than a third of workers around the world will no longer see the physical workplace as a place they have to go to, thanks to the cloud and bring your own device (BYOD) trends. According to the latest Cisco TechWatch 2013, 76pc of companies expect to move to the next-generation workspace in three years.
07.Mar.2013 15:51
While there has been an abrupt drop in malware targeting the declining Symbian platform to just 4pc of all mobile threats, malware targeted at the Android ecosystem accounted for 79pc of all mobile threats detected in 2012, according to a report by F-Secure.
07.Mar.2013 11:41
The Vatican is to embark on a major nine-year project that will see it digitise its catalogue of 80,000 historic manuscripts, 40m pages and 8,900 incunabula, as part of EMC’s Information Heritage initiative.
07.Mar.2013 10:43
Consumers will spend 1.5bn hours and US$22bn this year identifying, fixing and recovering from the impact of malware embedded in pirated software, while global enterprises will spend US$114bn in 2013 to handle the aftermath of a malware-induced cyberattack, a new study suggests.
06.Mar.2013 12:00
Omnipay’s CTO talks to Siliconrepublic.com about building a platform to disrupt the e-commerce payments sector, the importance of security and why it’s not always good to be on the bleeding edge.
01.Mar.2013 10:34
One-third of mobile phone or tablet owners have failed to protect their devices with a PIN or password, and most tablet owners have even shared their PIN with someone else, a global survey of 3,000 consumers by McAfee and One Poll suggests.
28.Feb.2013 06:00
Many information security teams are understaffed and don’t always have the appropriate skills to tackle new risks, a major new survey has found.
27.Feb.2013 08:12
Educational institutions across Europe are struggling to keep up with advances in technology that would simplify and improve the delivery of education services, the recent Ricoh Document Governance Index has found.
26.Feb.2013 12:44
Most CIOs believe mobility will generate significant sources of new revenue for their businesses, and most will invest 31-40pc of their discretionary budgets to achieve that goal – compared with only 19pc of CIOs surveyed last year, Accenture reports.
26.Feb.2013 06:00
The same cyber attacks being experienced by Facebook and Apple are also occurring at Microsoft, the software giant has revealed.
23.Feb.2013 12:32
Two-thirds of Irish employees admit they would immediately alter their online behaviour if they had as much as an inkling that their employers were monitoring their online activity, a survey of 250 office workers has revealed.
22.Feb.2013 12:28
