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‘The High-Heeled Leader: Embrace Your Feminine Power In Life And Work’ Excerpt This excerpt, from Chapter 13, “The Power Of The Feminine At Work,” lays out negative business behaviors that can breed a culture of distrust. In her book, “The High-Heeled Leader: Embrace Your Feminine Power In Life And Work,” author Katie Day shows women […]

GFI Software™ recently announced the results of a new survey about the faxing habits of U.S. office workers, which show that by an overwhelming margin, faxing continues to be an important form of office communication for most businesses. However, concerns exist about the privacy of data when transmitted over a paper-based fax system. The independent […]

It is widely proven that employee engagement is directly linked to the profitability and sustainability of a business. Why is it, then, that, according to the Gallup Organization, only 11 percent of all employees worldwide are engaged in their work? Shouldn’t engagement be a higher priority for business leaders? Engagement means being committed to something […]

Conventional wisdom holds that one of the easiest ways to come into compliance is by upgrading your enterprise software to a version that has the best control practices baked into the software. But a recent survey conducted by PwC of 88 organizations that recently either deployed new SAP software or upgraded an existing deployment finds […]

Organizations are settling for 10 to 20 percent lower discounts on data center convergence than could ultimately be achieved, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that if organizations develop a negotiating strategy supported by IT and procurement they could achieve significant savings with fabric-based infrastructure (FBI). Gartner defines FBI as an emerging area of vertical integration […]

Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and IT users for 2013 and beyond. Their top predictions focus on economic risks, opportunities and innovations that will impel CIOs to move to the next generation of business-driven solutions. Selected from across Gartner’s research areas as the most compelling and critical predictions, they address […]

‘Renegades Write the Rules’ Excerpt In the excerpt, “There’s a New ROI in Town,” author Amy Jo Martin explains the importance of influence over impressions when it comes to social media investment. In “Renegades Write the Rules,” author Amy Jo Martin shares her insight into tapping the value of social media. She reveals strategies behind […]

This tongue-in-cheek slideshow, provided by Unitrends, explores data loss from a contrarian point of view – exploring the top seven shortcuts you can take to ensure that you lose your data. And since a fundamental responsibility of any information technology professional, as well as any C-level executive, is to ensure that the data upon which […]

IT security and data protection firm Sophos has published its latest ‘Dirty Dozen’ report of spam-relaying countries for the third quarter of 2012. Since the previous quarter, India has grown its lead at the top of the hall of shame, and now relays 16.1 percent of all spam captured in SophosLabs’ global network of spam […]

OpTier, a leader in application performance management (APM) and providing end-to-end contextual transaction data, analyzing billions of transactions per day, recently announced key findings from its newly released Big Data analytics research study. The research shows that amid all the hype, few companies are able to apply analytics to Big Data for competitive advantage, because […]

Worldwide IT spending is forecast to surpass $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 3.8 percent increase from 2012 projected spending of $3.6 trillion, but it’s the outlook for Big Data that is creating much excitement, according to Gartner, Inc. “By 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to support Big Data, generating 1.9 million […]

Zenprise®, Inc., a leader in mobile device management (MDM) security and innovation, recently released the results of a survey that polled 501 IT professionals on their mobile initiatives. Findings reveal that organizations are taking proactive and innovative approaches to their mobile strategies. Organizations are investing in mobile business initiatives, developing mobile apps, and getting a […]