ITBE Staff

Kaazing, pioneers of HTML5 WebSocket and a leading Web and mobile communication platform for live data delivery, recently announced the findings of its annual Live Web and Mobile Communication survey.  The survey, which was conducted in March 2013 with nearly 300 global IT professionals and developers worldwide, found that nearly nine out of ten (86 […]

When hackers broke in to the New York Times’ network, evaded its antivirus software and began plundering its computer systems, it highlighted a rather uncomfortable truth:  Antivirus software is not that good at keeping systems secure. That means that any company that relies on an antivirus package to secure its endpoints is exposing itself to […]

With a variety of storage devices available today, it can be difficult to match drives with data types and data center environments. You have to consider factors such as random access performance, sequential performance, cost, density and reliability, and often more. With so many considerations, market hype could steer you toward a fad. Gary Watson, […]

With the recent Blackberry 10 launch, the company seems to be going back to its business roots. This doesn’t mean it is abandoning the fun stuff; it’s just making sure that work-oriented customers get a phone that specifically targets them. This slideshow features 15 hot apps to help add more productivity and security to your […]

Internap Network Services Corporation, a provider of intelligent IT infrastructure services, recently released the results of a survey that shows IT organizations are seeking to transform their traditional colocation environments with “cloudy colo” capabilities that deliver hybridization with cloud services as well as cloud-like visibility and control. The finding was revealed as part of a […]

‘Leadership Conversations: Challenging High Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders’ Excerpt This excerpt discusses the importance of knowledge workers in a social-driven world and asking the right questions to get the right results. Often the very same skills and traits that enable rising stars to achieve success “tenacity, aggressiveness, self-confidence” become liabilities when promoted into […]

Infonetics Research recently released excerpts from its fourth quarter 2012 (4Q12) and year-end 3G and 4G mobile broadband devices and subscribers market share and forecast report. The comprehensive report tracks over 50 mobile broadband market segments and sub-segments, including smartphones, operating systems (OS), routers, cards, USBs, embedded devices (such as tablets) and subscribers, all by […]

Marketing executives and advertisers speak of the “viral video” in hushed tones, fearing that if they express their desire to “go viral,” aloud they’ll be met with a chorus of angry naysayers screaming “you can’t make a viral video, they just happen… as if by magic!” They still all want one, though. Developing, producing and successfully […]

According to a March 13 report from the Commerce Department, retail sales increased 1.1 percent in February, to $421.4 billion, marking the biggest surge in the retail space since last September. Elevated sales numbers mean additional credit card transactions and, as a result, an increased risk for fraud. A recent report from Javelin Strategy & […]

A question Joshua Waldman, author of Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies, frequently gets when training job seekers on using social media is “Won’t my boss think I’m looking for another job if I’m using LinkedIn?” With over 180 million LinkedIn users in the world, he honestly doesn’t think that even half of them […]

Typically, compromise can be a great thing – certainly a mandate in most relationships, but not in the world of IT, and especially not in the storage space. In IT, compromise always comes at a cost. For years, IT has been inventing and implementing workarounds to cope with the poor performance of storage systems bound […]

The nexus of forces — social, mobile, cloud and information — is bringing new challenges and opportunities for identity and access management (IAM). Chief information and security officers (CISOs) and IAM leaders must keep sight of the demands of day-to-day operations, governance, risk management and compliance, while extending their vision to include the nexus and […]