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1. What is business analytics? Business analytics is the practical application of statistical analysis and technologies on business data to identify and anticipate trends and predict business outcomes. Research firm Gartner defines business analytics as “solutions used to build analysis models and simulations to create scenarios, understand realities, and predict future states.” While quantitative analysis, operational analysis, and data visualizations are key components of business analytics, the goal is to use the insights gained to…

An anonymous hacker has claimed to have stolen the personal information of 1 billion Chinese citizens, representing one of the biggest data breaches in history. Posting on the hacker forum Breach Forums last week, an online user posting under the name ‘ChinaDan’ said they obtained the information from a leaked Shanghai National Police database. They wrote that the databases “contain information on 1 Billion Chinese national residents and several billion case records, including: name, address,…

An investigation into cybersecurity at UK public services revealed a large disparity in defense budgets, hundreds of website vulnerabilities and staff email addresses and passwords at one council posted in full online. The ITV News investigation found that one UK council spent only £32,000 a year on cybersecurity. By comparison, another council – with a smaller population – had an annual cybersecurity budget of £1m, over 30 times larger. The investigation also revealed that one hospital had only…

The logical progression from the virtualization of servers and storage in VSANs was hyperconvergence. By abstracting the three elements of storage, compute, and networking, data centers were promised limitless infrastructure control. That promised ideal was in keeping with the aims of hyperscale operators needing to grow to meet increased demand and that had to modernize their infrastructure to stay agile. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) offered elasticity and scalability on a per-use basis for multiple clients, each…

NATO has announced plans to develop virtual rapid response capabilities “to respond to significant malicious cyber activities.” The plans were unveiled in a declaration published following the NATO Summit in Madrid, Spain, last week. The latest summit took on extra significance in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, amid fears of the conflict spilling beyond the current borders into NATO territory. Referring to the war, the declaration read: “We, the Heads of State…

The world has become far more complicated. For businesses, the need to balance employee safety, changed expectations about how and where we work, and the shifting threat landscape have transformed the very nature of how we use our computers. While users have always wanted safe, reliable and high performing PCs and notebooks, delivering this in the post-pandemic world poses an immense challenge. And with workplaces and teams distributed more widely than ever before, manageability faces…

What is a CAO? A chief administrative officer (CAO) is a top-level executive responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of an organization and the company’s overall performance. CAOs are responsible for managing an organization’s finances as well as creating goals, policies, and procedures for the company to help it operate more efficiently and compliantly. They typically report directly to the CEO and act as a go-between for other senior-level management and the CEO. CAOs often…

What is a CAO? A chief administrative officer (CAO) is a top-level executive responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of an organization and the company’s overall performance. CAOs are responsible for managing an organization’s finances as well as creating goals, policies, and procedures for the company to help it operate more efficiently and compliantly. They typically report directly to the CEO and act as a go-between for other senior-level management and the CEO. CAOs often…