ITBE Staff

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) advocates that all businesses create an incident response plan and be prepared for the likelihood that they will experience a breach or data loss in the future. The fact is breaches happen and often at the worst of times. Rather than be lulled into the belief it will not happen […]

Agile Glossary Don’t know what a Scrum Master does? AccuRev’s Agile Glossary defines over 70 commonly used terms and phrases related to agile software development processes. Agile development processes are quickly gaining adoption within software development organizations. For many types of software products, agile processes have been shown to speed time to market, increase quality […]

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) and the Ponemon Institute have released the findings of the 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach, which reveals data breaches grew more costly for the fifth year in a row. The average organizational cost of a data breach increased to $7.2 million and cost companies an average of […]

Times are good for tablets. Forrester has projected sales to double in 2011. An influx of Android tablets has made the space more competitive, leaving business persons and consumers alike with an abundance of new tablets to choose from, including a second-generation iPad. As the plethora of options leaves users torn, we’ve refreshed our previous […]

iPass Inc. (NASDAQ: IPAS), a provider of enterprise mobility services, recently published its quarterly Mobile Workforce Report. The report found that 27 percent of mobile employees surveyed are using a tablet, typically an iPad, for work. While most mobile employees think that in the next five years there will be just one über device, that […]

There are two major trends causing organizations to rethink the way they approach doing analytics. Big data. First, data volumes are exploding. More than a decade ago, Wayne Eckerson, director of TDWI Research, participated in the formation of the Data Warehouse Terabyte Club, which highlighted the few leading-edge organizations whose data warehouses had reached or […]

BIOS Protection Guidelines Minimize security risks by implementing protective measures that make your desktop and mobile workstations less vulnerable to BIOS-targeting malware. Modern computers rely on fundamental system firmware, commonly known as the system Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), to facilitate the hardware initialization process and transition control to the operating system. The system BIOS is […]

Business users can be a hard lot to please, especially when it comes to smartphones. Today’s prosumers typically desire a simple design, complex features, reliable Web access, a solid camera and easy-to-use keyboard. Previously, we compiled a list of the top smartphones that work for business. While those phones are still viable candidates for business […]

Many social media efforts are failing because some enterprises just don’t understand how to employ social media to facilitate collective behaviors, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner conducted a 10 month effort collecting data and analyzing 200 successful social media implementations to identify how enabling collective human behaviors can lead to enterprise value. “Social media is […]

As more IT organizations get comfortable with cloud computing, many are turning their attention to performance issues in the cloud. Just like on-premise applications, poor performance of cloud-based applications can be detrimental to the business. A new survey of 700 businesses in North America and Europe from Compuware, a provider of tools for monitoring cloud […]

iPerceptions Inc., a leading provider of Web-focused Voice of Customer (VoC) analytics based on actual visitor feedback and Peppers & Rogers Group, recently announced ten tips for making websites sticker. These recommendations are based on data from thousands of iPerceptions' surveys and analysis from Peppers & Rogers Group. The data and analysis reveals that while […]

According to a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of Quest Software, U.S. workers and IT professionals agree that multiple passwords, used to access everything from websites to business applications such as HR or CRM systems, now make it more difficult for employees to get their jobs done. More than 60 percent of […]