Don Tennant

5 Tips to Retain Your Top IT Talent Last month, I wrote a post in which I shared an expert’s advice on how employers can minimize the risk of losing intellectual property when they lose an employee. But what if the tables are turned, and your company is the one doing the poaching? How can […]

Uncovering the Truth about Six Big Data Security Analytics Myths According to a recent survey of C-level executives by Accenture Strategy, 63 percent of respondents said their companies experience cyberattacks at least once a week. The kicker is that the majority of these executives are just talking about it, without taking the full corrective measures […]

How to Avoid Downtime with a Proper Disaster Recovery Plan When Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans 10 years ago this week, countless businesses were submerged in water and were partially or totally destroyed. Those without reliable disaster recovery operations in place paid an enormous price. In many ways, those with reliable disaster recovery operations […]

Six Ways to Overcome the Fear of Failure in Business I’ve been doing this for a very long time, and I’m not easily impressed. I was impressed by Brienne Ghafourifar. Very impressed. Three years ago, Ghafourifar co-founded Entefy, a Palo Alto-based startup that says it’s “rewriting the code of digital interaction” by “introducing the first […]

Last week, I wrote a post about Ray Zinn, a technology  industry legend who earlier this year reluctantly gave in to what he calls “acquisition mania.” That painful acquiescence came in the form of selling Micrel, the semiconductor company he founded in Silicon Valley 37 years ago, to a rival. As I noted in that […]

5 Tips to Retain Your Top IT Talent Imagine that it’s 1981, and you’re graduating from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville with a B.S. in electrical engineering. If you’re female, imagine what that experience was like. If you’re male, don’t even try. We probably couldn’t come close. Nasrin Thierer, founder and CEO of Revenew, a distributed […]

State of IT 2015: Mid-Year Check-In On Aug. 3, Microchip Technology announced the completion of its acquisition of Micrel, a San Jose-based semiconductor company. In some respects, it was a rather mundane development—just one more acquisition in a technology sector that has experienced remarkably rapid consolidation in recent years. But in at least one respect, […]

Survey Highlights Workplace Productivity Drains In a previous post, I wrote about the notion that in the IT profession, there are often accepted cultural norms that create a toxic work environment for the employees. To follow up on that topic here, it’s important to understand the harm that toxic employees can create in a work […]

Survey Says IT Worker Stress Way Down, Pride Up According to one tech CEO, hiring the right people is a process that goes far beyond determining whether a person has the required technical skills. Equally important is ensuring that the candidate is a good cultural fit with the company. That CEO is Tara Kelly of […]

Searching for a Job? Get the Most from Your Efforts In a post last week about how marketing organizations are driving tech spending, I raised the issue of shadow IT and the question, given this tech spending trend, of whether the shadow is the marketing organization or the IT organization. All of this begs any […]

Survey Highlights Workplace Productivity Drains Despite the tremendously negative impact they have in the workplace, toxic employees are too rarely confronted about their behavior. And in the IT profession in particular, there are often accepted cultural norms that actually create a toxic work environment. That’s my best shot at encapsulating in two sentences what I […]

Overcoming Five Managed File Transfer Myths A lot of individuals and enterprises are no doubt timing their new PC purchasing plans to coincide with Microsoft’s July 29 release of Windows 10. If you or your organization are in that category, it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to start considering the approach you’re going to […]