ITBE Staff

Today’s consumers are smarter, more empowered and better connected than ever before. With competitors only a few clicks away, few businesses are actually the “only game in town,” making it increasingly important — and challenging — for merchants to attract and retain customers. The businesses that will come out on top are the ones that […]

There are many things that can be done with existing network infrastructure to protect against network-layer attacks. Network equipment, which is already heavily taxed with production traffic, is vulnerable to minimal increases in traffic, causing availability disruptions. AlgoSec, a leading provider of network security policy management, offers five tips for defending against a DDoS attack. […]

IT, security and the business have important shared objectives: 1) raise stakeholder value, 2) drive performance improvements, 3) ensure compliance across activities and operations, and 4) protect the organization, its assets and its people.        We’ve seen breath-taking and awe-inducing changes over the last few years – the rise of a digital universe that is […]

The emergence of Hadoop as the de facto Big Data operating system has brought on a flurry of beliefs and expectations that are sometimes simply untrue. Organizations embarking on their Hadoop journey face multiple pitfalls that, if not proactively addressed, will lead to wasted time, runaway expenditures and performance bottlenecks. By proactively anticipating these issues […]

Almost everyone has been adversely affected by the economic challenges over the past decade. Some of us have lost our jobs, houses, retirement or at least know someone personally who has. People are tired of it and won’t put up with it anymore, at least for long. We now have many more choices of where […]

The security threat landscape changes constantly, with malicious hackers developing new ways to compromise your systems as older vulnerabilities are discovered and patched. So it’s important to be aware of the threats to enterprise security that are coming over the horizon and heading this way. According to Paul Rubens, writing for Enterprise Security Planet, it’s […]

Sample Business Intelligence Contract This Sample Business Intelligence Contract breaks out the agreement into several well-defined parts, including a Situational Summary, Objective and Measure of Success. Innovation is worth little unless it generates lasting success, and gaining measurable results from new ideas requires more than creative risk-taking. Successful innovation demands a tactical approach. “Getting Innovation […]

Until recently, Flash-optimized Fibre channel storage has been extremely expensive to implement and many organizations were priced out of the procurement cycle.  According to Gartner, however, the solid-state drive (SSD) market is expected to grow from some $390 million in 2012 to more than $4 billion in 2016. Emulex, a provider of hardware and software […]

According to Dice, reporting on numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for tech professionals continues to remain low (3.5 percent) compared to the national average (7.7 percent). Despite a lower than national average rate, however, the number of tech professional voluntarily choosing to quit their positions (380,000 – average for first […]

Social networks are becoming increasingly hostile, with 78 percent of users reporting rising incivility online and two in five blocking, unsubscribing or “unfriending” someone over an argument on social media, according to new research from the authors of the New York Times best-seller Crucial Conversations. The online survey of 2,698 respondents suggests contentious conversations that […]

With Big Data making headlines daily, it’s easy to mistake “lots of data” for “Big Data.” As most IT folks agree, organizations of all stripes, from government agencies to academia, have been dealing with massive data sets for years. “But just because you have a lot of data, that doesn’t mean it should be considered […]

Telecommuting: Benefits, Risks, Tips and More This guide pulls together several resources to help you weigh the risks and benefits of telecommuting. Telecommuting is becoming a mainstay in America. Today, more than 34 million Americans telecommute on an occasional basis at the least. It’s a number that is expected to swell beyond 60 million by […]