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APQC, a leading proponent of knowledge management, benchmarking, and best practices business research, recently released the results of a new study — Effective Project Management Offices — which uncovers trends among a select group of best-practice project management offices (PMO). The best-practice organizations highlighted in the study provide structure, guidance, and oversight to achieve the […]

AVG Technologies, provider of Internet and mobile security to 146 million active users, recently released tips on how users can remove personal data before they recycle or throw away old smartphones. In an era of frequent and seamless device upgrades, it’s easy to ditch an old handset and move on to the next. However, chances […]

Users expect apps to be amazing, yet most developers are locked into programming models that prevent them from building apps that make users say “wow!”  An amazing app is rich and interactive, and able to scale to handle the high volumes of data that users demand. Derek Henninger, vice president of engineering at Typesafe, outlines […]

The fastest-growing cities in the country when it comes to technology jobs posted on Dice may have been unexpected in the past. But, with communities coming together to support start-ups, court large employers and fund STEM education initiatives, no one should be surprised that “traditional tech centers” need a new definition. Click through for the […]

Network IT admins need a 2013 game plan to deal with the high bandwidth loads during the annual three-week-long March Madness basketball tournament. As employees stream hours of games on work and personal devices, the resulting 30 percent increase in network traffic requires IT put a proactive plan into place. In the past, IT has […]

IT admins can’t seem to catch a break this year. First, the never-ending stream of Java issues that has kept folks on their toes since January. Now they’ve got another busy month of patches ahead of them, with seven total patches from Microsoft, four of which are critical. However, once again the issues outside of […]

Have you ever had the feeling that you were left in the dark on something while everyone around you was in the know? Every industry has its secrets, and the backup and recovery space is no different. And while many backup providers do a great job of keeping these secrets, well, secret, Unitrends believes companies […]

Challenging Security Requirements for U.S. Government Cloud Computing Adoption Use the requirements, examples and subsequent mitigation strategies in this NIST document to address any cloud security concerns within your own organization. In order to achieve adoption of cloud computing for the federal government, it is necessary to address the security and privacy concerns that federal […]

Cisco recently announced at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference the results of the Cisco Customer Experience Report focused on health care. The global report examined the perceptions of consumers and health care decision makers (HCDMs) on the patient experience in health care. The results of the report demonstrate that as information, technology, bandwidth, […]

CIOs and IT pros are being called upon to rapidly determine how their companies can best benefit from a cloud strategy. Adding roadblocks to their adoption roadmaps, however, is a host of myths that make it hard for IT managers to fully embrace all the cloud has to offer. Logicalis, an international IT solutions and […]

IT continues to change to address needs of businesses and employees. The consumerization of IT has uncoupled users from the desktop, and virtualization and cloud have added to the agility of servers. While the attention and appreciation of our often under-recognized industry is welcomed, for network administrators these new methodologies can add complexity while trying […]

As businesses begin to explore the insights, efficiencies and competitive edge Big Data can bring to their organizations, it is imperative they answer the right questions before getting too far down the road into a Big Data project, according to experts at ICC, a leader in business technology solutions focusing on Big Data and application […]