ITBE Staff

As we all know, life in IT can get very stressful. Demanding users, high business expectations and tight budgets are just some of the many obstacles IT professionals have to traverse every day.  To provide a brief respite from this hectic pace, Evolve IP has provided a few vignettes featuring a lighter look at life […]

It’s December 21, 2012, and panic sets in. The Mayan predictions were true, and widespread chaos ensues. The world as we know it ceases to exist. It’s up to every living man, woman and child to use mobile technology for the safety and survival of the human race. Click through for mobile apps that can […]

“The goal is to give clients what they want, not just what they signed off on” says Sandeep Sawhney, CTO at Icreon. What is Agile-ish (Scrum?) The risks of waterfall development methodologies are widely discussed and documented: prolonged development schedules, team burn out, client communication lapses and compromised QA, amongst others. And agile has since […]

TEKsystems®, a leading provider of IT staffing solutions, IT talent management expertise and IT services, recently released new research showing that IT leaders are almost evenly split on expectations regarding budget increases for 2013. Additionally, IT leaders are gravitating toward investing in core application and infrastructure services and staff, with a greater interest in permanent […]

Like most new things, cloud computing has taken some getting used to for IT organizations. But a new survey of 201 IT professionals conducted by CloudPassage, a provider of security appliances for securing cloud computing environments, finds that confidence in both public and private cloud computing is gaining. Of course, there are still lots of […]

‘Shortcut to Prosperity’ Excerpt Author Mark Hopkins offers shortcuts for moving up the corporate ladder, including tips for developing a prosperous mentor/mentee relationship. Just being good at what you do doesn’t cut it anymore. Today’s information-fueled economy rewards a new breed of worker: those who can think differently move faster and attain a level of […]

We hear tablet use will increase productivity, but by how much?  Are people truly using their tablets for work, or are they just a distraction?  Inquiring minds (and managers) want to know … so national technology solutions provider CDW surveyed 610 professionals in four industries to get the skinny on tablet use for work.  Click […]

Fortinet, a leader in high-performance network security, recently revealed FortiGuard Labs’ 2013 threat predictions, highlighting six threats to watch out for next year. Expected trends include mobile advanced persistent threats, IPv6 safe havens and exploits through machine-to-machine communications. Click through for six threats to watch out for in 2013, as identified by Fortinet. APTs, also […]

The job market for technology professionals has been a bright spot amid what economic-types typically have termed a modest recovery. That “bright spot” status should remain true into 2013, according to more than 1,000 technology-focused hiring managers and recruiters surveyed by Dice. Click through for a look ahead at the tech job market in 2013, […]

While there’s a lot of excitement about the potential benefits of cloud and mobile computing in the enterprise, the fact remains that the introduction of new technologies is exacerbating security issues in health care organizations that are already hard pressed to secure patient data. A new report, conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of […]

With deep insight into global IT trends, ServiceNow. a leading provider of cloud-based software that automates enterprise IT operations and eliminates friction in the service organization, has developed a series of predictions for the CIO that focuses on the importance of IT automation, mobile devices as an enterprise platform, and how the enterprise should continue […]

IT heterogeneity exists in today’s computing environments for three reasons: Legacy technologies still support critical business processes. The distributed computing era’s best-in-class technology approach led to enterprise IT integrating and managing multiple products and technologies. Mergers and acquisitions increase IT heterogeneity through acquired technologies and products. IT heterogeneity poses both a challenge and an opportunity, […]