protection, information troubles fear printer users

Printer clients have become increasingly more worried approximately the network safety in their machines and the developing information levels, HP stated this week.

"the amount of data is growing so substantially within the business enterprise area that IT managers have a in reality tough time managing it," said Jan Reicher, vp of HP's go to market unit.

"the amount of facts is doubling every 18 or 24 months, which gives some concept of the importance of what is going on in those groups."

in addition to the rise in data usage, clients are also worried about the safety issues raised through community printing.

"security is an issue on multiple degrees: security for the hardware, security for the files and security for the information," stated Bruce Dahlgren, senior vice president of world enterprise sales at HP's Imaging and Printing group.

Reicher agreed that security is now one of the top concerns for customers.  or 3 years ago the worries were about security for the printer itself due to its storage abilties.

however the trouble now is that gadgets are connected to the community, elevating worries about the security of the community and the records on it.

HP claimed it already has some of merchandise to handle security problems, and is currently operating on the way to better function them to meet purchaser desires.