ITBE Staff

If there’s one thing that just about every IT professional on the planet can identify with, it’s the difficulty in striking a work/life balance. The nature of the job is such that not only is there no such thing as a 40-hour work week, there’s no such thing as a week in which you really […]

Recent talk regarding a potential spin-off of HP’s PC business drove a heated debate about whether other technology firms might do the same. Will the PC continue to provide value to end users or has its grave been dug? Global information and communications technology provider Dimension Data recently commissioned a survey on the desktop virtualization […]

Security is a top-of-mind concern for CIOs and data center managers. In environments where regulatory requirements play a role, it is critical to ensure that organizational data is safe and secure at every access point. Awareness isn’t enough, though. Organizations must be able to gauge their security preparedness.  That’s why Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information […]

How can small businesses know if virtualization is a fit? To answer this question, CDW surveyed nearly 300 small business Information Technology (IT) professionals through Spiceworks, a social network for IT, interviewing those that have and have not virtualized for their perceptions of and experiences with server virtualization. The resulting Small Business Virtualization Roadmap examines […]

Storage systems are going through a rapid period of innovation that probably exceeds anything that IT organizations have seen in the last 10 years. The primary reason for this is that the rise of virtualization coupled with the advent of low-cost Flash memory is creating a recipe for storage change. In fact, in a new […]

Knowledge Warehouse Business Case Sample Large initiatives, such as a knowledge warehouse, require an enormous amount of diligence and research, all of which come together in a business case document. This sample business case will illustrate the types of analysis and modeling your team needs to present to senior management before they can make a […]

Over the last three decades, Rob Enderle has worked as an inside (ROLM/Siemens/IBM) or outside (Dataquest, Forrester, Enderle Group) technology analyst. He thought it would be interesting to share the 16 immutable rules that most people actually running tech companies don’t seem to know. These rules define the differences between a company that is doing […]

While the Web has become more strategic for almost every business it touches, it’s also becoming clearer that when it comes to making e-commerce decisions, a lot of businesses are flying blind. A new survey of 228 IT and marketing professionals conducted by Endeca, a provider of e-commerce software, finds that business executives are making […]

Full Virtualization Technologies: Guidelines for Secure Implementation and Management Virtualization technologies create efficiencies by viewing disparate physical systems as singular assets. But by putting all your management eggs in one virtual basket, you run the risk of compromising enormous segments of your infrastructure. Virtualization promises enormous gains in efficiency and control for IT. However, virtualization adds […]

A lot of time and effort has been put into promoting the value of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework. But for reasons tied to budget and time, a recent survey of 884 IT professionals working mostly in small-to-medium business (SMB) environments, conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Dell KACE, found that not only […]

Encryption Basics Encryption has become a more accessible technology for securing your data, both in transit and on storage devices. But it still is not simple. The information in this article will help you grasp the basics of encryption tactics and standards. Encryption has been identified by government agencies as a key technology in complying […]

A new study recently released by global interactive marketing provider ExactTarget finds 93 percent of Facebook users click the “Like” button at least monthly, but the meaning behind “Like” varies considerably by age and context. Featured in ‘The Meaning of Like,’ the latest in ExactTarget’s Subscribers, Fans and Followers research series, the study found the […]