ITBE Staff

Cynthia West, Vice President at Project Insight, and her team speak with project managers, directors of operations, vice presidents of professional services, chief financial officers, and other project team members every day. They hear familiar stories repeatedly and have identified some trends, or commonalities, that regularly affect project management success. This slideshow highlights five of […]

Data deduplication and compression promise often-staggering reductions in data storage capacity requirements, shrinking backup data by 90 percent or more. Reducing this backup load achieves a corresponding reduction in the cost of hardware and management. Small and midsized businesses and departmental computing operations, however, can struggle to achieve optimal data reduction because of a number […]

HP acquired the webOS platform when it purchased Palm last year. The company first began pushing webOS to its printers last summer and has since introduced it to devices in its mobile lineup like the HP Pre3 and TouchPad. The company recently announced that it has designs on baking the platform into all of its […]

By 2015, companies will generate 50 percent of their Web sales via their social-media presence and mobile applications, according to Gartner, Inc. As context gains importance, analysts revealed eight dos and don’ts to leveraging context-enriched mobile applications in customer relationship management (CRM) to drive sales and increase customer satisfaction. “By 2015, context will be as […]

Spam filters are getting better every year at keeping up with the ever-increasing flood of spam. But no matter how good the filters get, some spam will always leak through. Consequently, some fraction of good messages will be inappropriately tagged as spam and lost. Your reader may never even know that the message was sent, […]

One interesting facet of the IT industry is the need to learn new skills on a continual basis. New technologies are released all the time, and new operating systems seem to roll off the factory floor every 18 months or so. That means that IT professionals must continuously update their skills or end up becoming […]

Usage of virtualization technologies and cloud computing has been relatively tepid to date. But a new survey of 100 CIOs based in the U.S., conducted by the research firm Worldwide Executive Council on behalf of Apptio, a provider of IT financial management software, finds that adoption rates for virtualization and cloud computing should increase dramatically […]

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When it comes to shopping, the Web offers convenience, choice and information. As a result, consumers continue to move more of their shopping online, or make in-store purchase decisions that are “Web-influenced” first. Online retail sales in the U.S. are forecast to grow to $250 billion by 2014. This growth presents a tremendous opportunity for […]

Over the past few years, digital content, and more specifically the presence of new media delivery platforms such as smartphones, tablet PCs, and social networks has begun to explode. When combined with a growing global business community and increased accessibility, these newer content channels present businesses with the unique challenge of consistently providing the right […]

Hackers are taking advantage of Android’s open source platform, as there has been an astonishing increase in exploits involving the mobile OS over the past year. With the number of Android phones in use increasing daily, it’s essential that users protect their data.  With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of the top security […]

Phishing is an increasing and serious problem. Luckily, consumers and some tools are getting better at identifying and deleting them. Unfortunately for businesses, many legitimate messages get thrown away because they look too much like phishing messages. This slideshow highlights seven ideas identified by Westfield Insurance that companies should keep in mind when developing company e-mail. […]