ITBE Staff

You’ve heard it before: Create stronger, better, more unique passwords. But it doesn’t stop there. Courtesy of AppRiver, we bring you five must-heed tips to help your users securely conduct their daily Web activity from app downloads to bill pay, Web browsing, email checking and more. Click through for five must-heed best practices users should […]

A mobile enterprise is one where people can work from anywhere, anytime. There is a host of reasons businesses are finding it hard to “go mobile.” First of all, mobile at work means a lot more than having access to a smartphone or tablet. A true mobile enterprise is one where people are completely productive, […]

What gives meaning to a certification? Is it the certification vendor? Is it the subject? Or is it the perceived difficulty, mystique or aura? Or might it be something totally different? There are some certifications and/or vendors that are perceived to be more valuable – think of Cisco’s CCIE, which has been perceived as meaning […]

Generating Secure Cryptographic Keys Cryptographic methods can be used to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information, verify that information was not changed after it was sent, and authenticate the originator of the information. Cyptography provides strong protection for information technology (IT) systems, applications and information, especially when information is sensitive, has a high value […]

The conventional, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., five-day work week is a thing of the past for the overwhelming majority of workers at small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a new survey on work-related email habits. Due to the widespread availability and use of smartphones and tablets, email is more accessible than ever and, […]

Many IT organizations have already moved to a virtualized server infrastructure, while others are still operating a physical server model either for part, or all of their business application needs. Even today, organizations must ask — why virtualize — and the answer must satisfy the CFO, the CEO, and the end users, just as much […]

Picture this. You are a part of a multinational retailer of consumer electronics and you decide to quickly develop and deploy a social application to achieve your goals for the shopping season. You are confronted with a very aggressive timeline, meaning that your social application may have to scale up very quickly. The timeline may […]

Postgres is the enterprise-class open source database used by some of the largest companies in the world to handle all types of workloads. Companies like VMware, Microsoft (through its acquisition of Skype), Apple and Facebook (through its acquisition of Instagram) are all PostgreSQL users. So too are the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Fujitsu, NTT, Sony-Ericsson, […]

We live in a world that communicates in small bursts and at the speed of light. Because of the flood of information we are inundated with, we jump from receiving to reacting, without even a moment of pause between the two. But it is in that moment that you can change relationships and create opportunities […]

Data centers are evolving from isolated resource “islands” to interconnected pools of virtualized resources shared between multiple data center locations — effectively creating “data centers without walls” that help businesses cut costs and maximize IT efficiency. Ciena has provided an overview of the evolution of the data center to the cloud. Click through for an […]

As the economic recovery gathers pace, midsize companies are taking advantage of the opportunity to grow. Supporting their expansion are technologies that optimize time-consuming processes and provide useful insight into internal and external forces impacting the business. Oracle and its partners have a broad view of the top seven trends driving midsize companies to adopt […]

A “Recruiting for IT Talent” survey of U.S. companies conducted by Monster, a worldwide leader in successfully connecting people to job opportunities and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW), revealed a large majority of employers who hire for IT professionals are likely to hire in the next 60 days. Their hiring activity is […]