Alfresco has launched Version 1.3 of its mobile app, which highlights support for the iPhone and iPad. Alfresco Mobile 1.3 includes additional security measures through full-time data encryption for subscribers, allowing them to make their content permanently encrypted on the device, only becoming...
Mobile and tablet adoption is being led by IT departments, which proves counterintuitive to the general perception of the consumerization of IT trend, according to open platform for content management, Alfresco.
CBR rounds up the reaction to the news of Dropbox's security blunder, where the reuse of a password by an employee resulted in attackers gaining access to customer email addresses.
John Powell is president and chief executive ofopen source firm Alfresco and has 25 years' enterprise of software sales and operations, with much of it in proprietary software companies. Powell began his career in the software industry as a sales manager at Oracle where he worked until 1991. He was...
Do services such Dropbox, Apple iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive pose a threat to information security at enterprise level? Clive Longbottom talks about the consumerisation of data storage and how to deal with this potential secturity threat.
One common assumption about iPads in business is that employees and executives are insisting on using their personal iPads at work or are demanding that the company provide them while CIOs and IT departments are fighting tooth and nail against the iPad. While that assumption certainly makes for...
Tablet devices aren't replacing smartphones or laptops, but instead making smartphones more mobile and laptops less mobile, according to a new survey from content platform provider Alfresco. More than half (57 per cent) of respondents indicated they still use smartphones in casual mobile contexts...
Popular perception has it that IT organizations are trying to fend off end users demanding tablets. In reality, a survey of 308 IT professionals conducted by Alfresco, a provider of content management software, found demand for tablets in the enterprise is rising slow but steady, and it’s more...
When enterprise employees finish up their work at home they’re increasingly turning to tablets rather than powering up their laptops or desktop PCs, according to new survey from Alfresco. The tablet isn’t replacing the PC of smartphone, but it’s definitely carving itself a business niche.
The software industry's newfound love for the "freemium" model is a really bad idea, a prominent figure in the business just told us. John Powell runs Alfresco, a successful maker of content-management tools. He's the former COO of Business Objects, sold to SAP in 2007 for about $5.8 billion. He...