Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick tech news recap of articles you may have missed from the week of 1/12/2015.
Tech News Recap
Verizon’s cloud came back 40 hours after a scheduled outage. The number of attacks against the travel industry continues to grow; this time it was United Airlines MileagePlus accounts. CENTCOM’s twitter account was also hacked. 80% of online adults are now on a smartphone, however less than 10% use wearables. There were also some good articles around cloud spending, big data, business continuity and some predictions for what’s in store around end user computing, security and cloud as we head into 2015.
- 40 hours later, Verizon says its cloud is back
- Stolen credentials used to access United Airlines’ MileagePlus Accounts
- Cloud Spending Up, Where’s The Money Going Now?
- CENTCOM Twitter Account Hacked By Individuals Claiming To Be Part of ISIS
- Report: Cloud Spending Nearly a Third of All IT Infrastructure Spending
- 4 Ways for IT to Connect Better with Customers
- 80% Of All Online Adults Now Own A Smartphone, Less Than 10% Use Wearables
- Azure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure
- Cars Steal The Show At CES, Become Newest Front In Smartphone Wars
- United, American airlines account frauds highlights hacker focus on travel industry
- Big Data Goes To Las Vegas
- Enterprises win as cloud and on-site software vendors duke it out
- 2015 Predictions: End User Computing and Security
- 2015 Cloud Predictions – Starting the Transformation to an Agile IT Operating Model
- Superior-based tech company unveils wearable data storage
- Take Business Continuity to the Cloud
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By Ben Stephenson, Emerging Media Specialist