ITBE Staff

IT procurement or sourcing managers challenged with finding sourcing options that reduce costs at tolerable risks should examine nine contractual terms to reduce risk in cloud contracts, according to Gartner, Inc. The cloud delivery model is gaining popularity, but it includes risks that are often unclear or overlooked when assessing the appropriateness of the sourcing […]

IT Policy Exception Request Form Template Sometimes legitimate reasons for exceptions to IT policies arise. Handle them efficiently by setting up a process for submitting and evaluating exception requests using this form template. The City and County of San Francisco Committee on Information Technology (COIT) uses this form to standardize the process of making decisions […]

Downtime due to equipment or software failure, human error, viruses or natural disasters can all cause an even bigger data disaster if the IT staff has not properly prepared. In fact, just preparing for disaster isn’t enough of a strategy for most organizations. Technologists at Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology […]

Like most executives, the priorities of the CIO are usually changing in response to the needs of the business and the general state of the economy. But an annual global survey of 3,018 CIOs from IBM finds that not only are CIOs more in sync with senior business executives, there are four major classes of […]

If you think business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) planning means there’s no way around adding redundant physical servers to your back room, it may be time to reassess your strategy.  The idea that disaster recovery can be sold as a service managed in the cloud is not new, but according to Logicalis, an international provider of […]

Keeping Information Technology System Servers Secure Servers provide a wide variety of critical services, including database and file sharing services. These guidelines can help you install, configure and maintain secure servers. Organizations rely on the servers in their IT networks to provide a wide variety of services to internal and external users, including email, database, […]

With tornadoes, floods and other natural disasters routinely making front page news, it’s little wonder that IT folks are not sleeping as soundly as they once might have. A new study involving 2,000 online interviews conducted by Coleman Parkes Research on behalf of CA Technologies finds a lot of IT downtime is still plaguing end […]

When you’re thinking about business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR), you know you can’t protect yourself from every disaster – some circumstances are simply unimaginable.  But you can mitigate potential damage by taking a few upfront steps to ensure your data remains safe and secure.  Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology […]

Last summer research from Dresner Advisory Services found business users taking more of a leading role in the selection and deployment of business intelligence solutions. This was no fluke, as the trend is even more pronounced in Dresner’s latest research. Business users are seeking solutions that are easier to buy, quicker to deploy and simpler […]

Recommendation for Cryptographic Key Management The security of information protected by cryptographic keys directly depends on the strength of those keys, the effectiveness of mechanisms and protocols associated with keys and the protection afforded to the keys. Key management provides the foundation for the secure generation, storage, distribution and destruction of keys. This recommendation provides […]

Having been a recruiter for more than 15 years, Joe Turner often has job seekers asking him for advice on how to meet recruiters and how to make working with recruiters a beneficial experience. His reply is not always what they want to hear: Top recruiters don't want to meet you. They don't want you […]

From a technology perspective, when all is said and done concerning cloud computing, there may not be a whole lot new. That doesn’t mean that cloud computing doesn’t represent a seminal moment in the development of enterprise IT; it just means it’s more about changing the way we think about IT rather than the development […]