ITBE Staff

Developing enterprise mobile applications is one thing. Deploying and ensuring your staff will use those apps is a whole different ball game. Enterprise mobility can have an enormous positive impact on an organization’s productivity, efficiency and overall competitiveness. But unless the solution gets high rates of end-user acceptance across your enterprise, the opportunity is lost. […]

Cloud computing adoption is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, according to a 2014 IDG Cloud Computing Study, cloud investments have increased by 19 percent in large-scale enterprises spending on average $3.3M a year. Not only that, but according to a recent report from RightScale, an overwhelming 93 percent of IT professionals have adopted […]

Valentine’s Day is near. And while love is grand, the fact is that human nature can sometimes cause heartbreak. Research shows that one in five people are keeping a major secret — such as infidelity or money troubles — from their spouse. Deceit can be a deal breaker. IT and security professionals know all too […]

The data scientist has practically become a mythical creature in business lore. Revered, rare, and – purportedly — supernatural in their abilities. As early as 2012, the data scientist was lauded as the “Sexiest Job of the Century.” However, as Big Data has matured into a household term, businesses have begun to transition away from […]

For enterprises in performance-intensive industries, the ability to ensure fast, uninterrupted access and availability for key applications and content is critical. Disruptions and lags can impact everything from business performance and revenues to customer loyalty and satisfaction. This is why tens of thousands of enterprises are running multi-homed (aka “multi-carrier”) networks — to try to […]

Digital transformation is quickly changing the way businesses work. It is no longer just the marketing department’s territory, but has seeped through to other branches like IT and operations — sparking significant changes in the way organizations hire, work and measure success. We’ve long been talking about the tech talent shortage as an industry, but […]

PDFs have the second largest install-base in the world, second only to browsers. This pervasiveness brings with it some common misconceptions. One is the idea that PDF access is too expensive for every employee, even though PDF is in nearly every business, large or small. And two, that PDF is a “dead” technology with no […]

Moving past its infancy, software-defined networking (SDN) is becoming a significant player in the management of IT infrastructure and network design. While implementation can be a challenge, SDN is attractive to many businesses due to its potential for cost savings, improved network performance, increased productivity and improved security. IT decision makers were surveyed to better […]

Whether or not you subscribe to the butterfly effect, the idea holds true for IT operations. Even the tiniest of initial changes can determine the path of your IT ticket. So, tread carefully. Without automation and smart management, your help desk could quickly and easily spin out of control. In this slideshow, LeAnn Smiles, market […]

Find a company in today’s business landscape that isn’t pushing for more revenue, higher profits and lower costs. If you do, you probably won’t find them in business in a year’s time. That’s why smart leaders are looking seriously at how outsourced and virtual-team members can help them reach those goals. More and more, highly […]

As a direct response to the market, cloud service providers have sought to address concerns that inhibited widespread mainstream adoption. Companies like Amazon, Salesforce and Xactly — keen to reassure customers and make their services ubiquitous — have made huge improvements in transparency, identifying vulnerabilities, offering encryption, automated updates and more stringent authentication, while other […]

Tech’s biggest event, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), garners more than 200,000 attendees and never has a lack of innovation or head-scratching technology. From an entire section devoted to virtual reality to a futuristic Batmobile model, attendees collectively navigate through 3,800 exhibitors and 2.5 million square feet of space to experience the most advanced technologies. […]