Advertisement: The Week's Top IT Stories: 03/29

The Week's Top IT Stories: 03/29

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Every week, Eaton scours the Internet to bring you the top five industry headlines of the moment. This week, American Express confirmed its website was hacked, RIM announced a new strategy to revive the company, and Google launched its same-day delivery service. See what else made our top headlines:

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Cyberattacks Seem Meant to Destroy, Not Just Disrupt| The New York Times

On Thursday, American Express confirmed that its website was hacked. The attack was the latest in a series of assaults on American financial institutions that began last September.

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"The culprits of these attacks, officials and experts say, appear intent on disabling financial transactions and operations. Corporate leaders have long feared online attacks aimed at financial fraud or economic espionage, but now a new threat has taken hold: attackers, possibly with state backing, who seem bent on destruction."

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RIM Unwraps Risky Phone Plan| The Wall Street Journal

Research In Motion reported decent sales for its new flagship phone and a new strategy to revive the company.

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"With only a month of sales from a limited number of markets, it is still far from clear that launch is a success. But Mr. Heins said he is already turning his attention to a series of new, as-yet-unseen products due out later in RIM's fiscal year?signaling he is eager to go after several different markets with low- and midprice versions of the new phones."

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It's Twilight for Small In-House Data Centers| InfoWorld?

Virtualization, cloud services, and software-as-a-service are making it easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers.

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"This trend is being felt the most at in-house data centers in small- to mid-size companies. These firms may be trying to shut down their data centers, or shift a major portion of their workloads to external providers."

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Forrester Research Calls Mobile-Device Management 'Heavy-Handed Approach'| NetworkWorld

With the BYOD trend expected to increasingly include laptops, Forrester Research predicts the approach to managing these devices is in for big changes.

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"In its 2013 'Mobile?Security?Predictions' report, Forrester says that 'on-demand mobile virtualization?will overtake mobile-device management' as a core technology that IT professionals will turn to as a way 'to segregate business content and data from the personal environment' in mobile devices."

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Google's Same-Day-Delivery Service Goes Live in San Francisco| FastCompany

Google finally launched its delivery service which promises same-day delivery for products bought at some of its online e-commerce partner stores.

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"Google has been testing the Shopping Express system with employees for a while. The service is aimed at?competing?with Amazon's Prime delivery option--and Google has also been experimenting with a rival to Amazon's locker delivery service with its?purchase?of Canadian firm Bufferbox."

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