A 2009 prediction of IT trends in Malaysia reflected the same senti­ments that SMEs are looking to move towards an operational expenditure (OPEX) model and reduce their capital operations (CAPEX) model. This is against the backdrop of prediction that IT spend in Malaysia is expected to increase by 1% despite the current economic downturn. This prediction is a result of an expected demand by businesses to use IT innovation to improve the business by outsourcing several operations to achieve reduce operating cost. SMB worldwide spend on remote managed services grew about 9.2 percent in 2009 to reach about US$3.6 Billion and ...

Email is the lifeblood of modern business and one of the key targeted points of security threats in a company. When it comes to security issues, businesses of all sizes face the same email and messaging challenges - and one of the most prevalent of these is spam. In the past, the major problem with spam was that it diminished user productivity because of the excessive time required to sift through it. According to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report XIV, a 192 percent increase in spam was detected across the Internet, from 119.6 billion messages in 2007 to 349.6 billion ...