A growing tendency by business units and work groups to sign up for cloud services without any involvement from their IT organization creates serious risks for enterprises.

The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) is calling for vigilance in the maritime sector as it emerges that shipping and the supply chain is the "next playground for hackers."

Solving Efeso and the Cranfield School of Management conducted a multi-year study on how companies approach supply chain strategy at the boardroom level, correlating specific practices with supply chain performance and business success. Steve Mayhew, principal consultant at Solving Efeso, discusses the study and highlights key findings.

Nakivo Inc., a provider of data-protection software for VMware virtualized environments and cloud backup, has released version 4.1 of Nakivo Backup & Replication.

Global supply chain risk reached an 18-month low in Q2 2014, decreasing for three consecutive quarters for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis, according to the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply's (CIPS) latest CIPS Risk Index (CRI).

Transcepta LLC has begun offering trade-finance services to its customers.