http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:42:50 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2012-02-08T15:42:50Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-power-of-a-multi-level-approach-to-business-transformation/?cs=49724     Tracey Rothenberger is senior vice president and chief information and process improvement officer for Ricoh Americas Corporation . Anyone who has implemented a significant business process transformation, such as consolidating different ERP business_process_management business_communications business_process_management Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:14:26 GMT tracey.rothenberger@ricoh-usa.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-power-of-a-multi-level-approach-to-business-transformation/?cs=49724 2012-02-08T16:14:26Z 4 days, 14 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/the-power-of-a-multi-level-approach-to-business-transformation http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49724 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/keeping-watch-advice-for-the-ciso-in-todays-tech-reality/?cs=49716     Leo Navarro is practice manager and business leader for Softtek . 2011 was a year that saw great technological change. Organizations moved to the cloud and other virtualized environments seeking savings, and, in the process, extended their mobile_device_security network_security softtek cloud_computing consumerization virtualization big_data Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:35:00 GMT leonel.navarro@softtek.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/keeping-watch-advice-for-the-ciso-in-todays-tech-reality/?cs=49716 2012-02-07T19:35:00Z 5 days, 10 hours ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/keeping-watch-advice-for-the-ciso-in-todays-tech-reality http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49716 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/cloud-reduce-network-complexity-by-stepping-back-from-it/?cs=49679     Tom Powledge is vice president of product delivery, SMB and .Cloud for Symantec . For most folks, if they want an apple, they go to the supermarket or local fruit stand and buy one. They don’t think about the time, money and resources required to symantec cloud_computing Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:57:17 GMT tpowledge@symantec.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/cloud-reduce-network-complexity-by-stepping-back-from-it/?cs=49679 2012-02-02T16:57:17Z 1 week, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/cloud-reduce-network-complexity-by-stepping-back-from-it http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49679 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/cios-reduce-data-center-costs-through-power-and-cooling-efficiency/?cs=49667     Jeff Klaus is director, Intel Data Center Manager . Energy costs are the fastest-rising cost element in the data center. Based on current trends, the EPA estimates that energy consumed by data centers will continue to grow by 12 percent per year. roi energy_consumption cost_containment cooling_systems intel data_center Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:06:38 GMT jeffrey.s.klaus@intel.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/cios-reduce-data-center-costs-through-power-and-cooling-efficiency/?cs=49667 2012-02-01T16:06:38Z 1 week, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/cios-reduce-data-center-costs-through-power-and-cooling-efficiency http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49667 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/standing-at-the-edge-embracing-the-future-of-enterprise-communications/?cs=49642     Chris Hummel is CMO and president of North America for Siemens Enterprise Communications . Take a moment to consider how personal and corporate communication have changed in the last few decades. From using rotary phones and writing letters, we collaboration_software collaboration mobile_devices data_security unified_communications cloud_computing social_networks siemens Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:31:23 GMT chris.hummel@siemens-enterprise.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/standing-at-the-edge-embracing-the-future-of-enterprise-communications/?cs=49642 2012-01-30T15:31:23Z 1 week, 6 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/standing-at-the-edge-embracing-the-future-of-enterprise-communications http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49642 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-recipe-for-devops-and-business-success/?cs=49628     David Hurwitz is senior vice president of marketing at Serena Software . A good football team is built on the symbiosis of both its offense and defense — defense keeps the other team from scoring, and the offense stays on the field long enough for it_best_practices change_management serena business_culture software_and_web_development itil Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:17:47 GMT dhurwitz@serena.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-recipe-for-devops-and-business-success/?cs=49628 2012-01-27T16:17:47Z 2 weeks, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/the-recipe-for-devops-and-business-success http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49628 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/simple-tips-you-must-know-to-make-software-security-a-priority-part-i/?cs=49610 Five Warning Signs Your Security Policy Is Lacking Warning signs of a weak security policy from SunGuard Availability Services. According to the Ponemon Institute’s “U.S. Cost of a Data Breach Report,” the cost of an average breach was $7.2 million in it_best_practices application_security risk_management security_breaches security_policy Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:12:26 GMT james@d6solutions.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/simple-tips-you-must-know-to-make-software-security-a-priority-part-i/?cs=49610 2012-01-25T20:12:26Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/simple-tips-you-must-know-to-make-software-security-a-priority-part-i http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49610 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/will-vmware-own-the-private-cloud-in-2012/?cs=49546     Jason Cowie is Vice President of Product Management for Embotics Corporation . In 2011, many data center managers took a hard look at the public cloud and said, “No, thank you.” The drawbacks of public cloud computing outweigh the cost benefits service_level_agreements cloud_computing vmware smbs embotics Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:54:48 GMT jcowie@embotics.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/will-vmware-own-the-private-cloud-in-2012/?cs=49546 2012-01-18T16:54:48Z 3 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/will-vmware-own-the-private-cloud-in-2012 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49546 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/nine-reasons-to-implement-email-monitoring/?cs=49481 Nine Benefits of Email Monitoring    Knowing what is going on with your email communications is vital. Communications is the lifeblood of businesses, and your email system is the heart that keeps that blood pumping. With so many critical e-mail_and_e-mail_management user_policies gfi_software usage_management_and_monitoring Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:55:55 GMT christina.goggi@gfi.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/nine-reasons-to-implement-email-monitoring/?cs=49481 2012-01-11T14:55:55Z 1 month, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/nine-reasons-to-implement-email-monitoring http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49481 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/how-cisos-can-combat-the-data-leak-risks-of-corporate-social-media-access/?cs=49479     Alexei Lesnykh is a business development manager at DeviceLock . For many companies, social media has become a vital tool that supports many business processes. Social media interactions, both internally and externally, can be used to build the social_networks data_security data_loss_prevention devicelock user_policies mobile_devices Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:17:23 GMT Alexei@devicelock.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/how-cisos-can-combat-the-data-leak-risks-of-corporate-social-media-access/?cs=49479 2012-01-10T18:17:23Z 1 month, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/how-cisos-can-combat-the-data-leak-risks-of-corporate-social-media-access http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49479 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/cios-challenges-in-transitioning-to-the-cloud/?cs=49461     Sadagopan Singam is Global Vice President, Cloud Computing, HCL Technologies . Cloud computing has cast a shadow over the IT landscape in the past several years, sparking as much confusion as genuine interest. But despite the buzzword du jour strategic_planning roi hcl cloud_computing executive_suite tco Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:13:21 GMT sadagopan.s@hcl.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/cios-challenges-in-transitioning-to-the-cloud/?cs=49461 2012-01-09T18:13:21Z 1 month, 4 days ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/cios-challenges-in-transitioning-to-the-cloud http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49461 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/for-complete-disaster-recovery-data-replication-is-not-enough/?cs=49309 Five Business Continuity Myths Avoid these five misconceptions to remain truly prepared.     Tim Sheets is Director of Product Management for FalconStor Software . In today’s world, the “I-want-it-now” environment and expectations highlight a disaster_recovery data_replication it_management_automation business_continuity falconstor Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:57:42 GMT timothy.sheets@falconstor.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/for-complete-disaster-recovery-data-replication-is-not-enough/?cs=49309 2011-12-13T14:57:42Z 2 months, 1 day ago 3 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/for-complete-disaster-recovery-data-replication-is-not-enough http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49309 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/data-protection-the-future-is-all-about-customer-value/?cs=49269     Ulf Mattsson is CTO for Protegrity . Historically, data protection and associated compliance costs have sat firmly in the IT budget "bucket." But the costs of compliance, and the potential cost of falling out of compliance, are spiraling out of privacy pci_data_security_standard protegrity tokenization data_security compliance_costs Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:37:18 GMT ulf.mattsson@protegrity.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/data-protection-the-future-is-all-about-customer-value/?cs=49269 2011-12-08T19:37:18Z 2 months, 6 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/data-protection-the-future-is-all-about-customer-value http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49269 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/big-data-governance/?cs=49261     Jill Dyché is vice president of thought leadership at Dataflux . In which Jill wonders yet again how much size really matters.   It’s always interesting to hear somebody dismiss a trend.   “That’s not new!” he might say as he strokes his big_data dataflux hadoop data_governance data_management Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:56:39 GMT jill.dyche@dataflux.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/big-data-governance/?cs=49261 2011-12-07T20:56:39Z 2 months, 1 week ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/big-data-governance http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49261 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-real-time-processing-check-list/?cs=49220     Scott Metzger is Vice President of Corporate Development for Violin Memory . Any number of business models have been built around the exchange of data on daily, weekly and monthly intervals, but scheduling processes to produce results in the data_integration apis high-performance_computing netflix violin_memory Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:13:19 GMT smetzger@vmem.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-real-time-processing-check-list/?cs=49220 2011-12-01T21:13:19Z 2 months, 1 week ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/the-real-time-processing-check-list http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49220