ITBE Staff

Big Data has become a big deal for companies of all sizes. The rush to capitalize on business intelligence to gain a competitive edge has brought forth a bevy of new analytics products, solutions and services designed to help companies make sense of, and gain insight from, an ever-widening array of data. From consumer behavior […]

In today’s competitive retail market, providing real-time product recommendations and services has become a must-do for online retailers, especially during the busy holiday season. Luckily, the secret ingredient is one they already have: connected data. The trick is knowing how to leverage this data. For example, in the case of providing online product recommendations, it […]

As we plan for 2016, IT professionals should reexamine and re-evaluate disaster recovery plans for their companies. Assessing current programs provides IT professionals the opportunity to enact proper best practices to deal with emergencies related to data loss and downtime. Preventing downtime is particularly crucial for small to midsize businesses (SMBs), which can suffer losses […]

If you’ve ever interviewed for a job or attended a networking event, it’s likely you’ve been asked the dreaded “tell me about yourself” question. It’s a short but tricky question that can lead to a rambling quagmire. Where do you begin? What do you include? Obviously, the person asking doesn’t want to know about your […]

Backup and disaster recovery are typically cited among the top use cases for cloud computing. Companies are increasingly realizing that cloud-based backup is more efficient, more reliable, easier to use and less error prone than traditional methods such as tape or other rotational media, not to mention it enables extremely effective disaster recovery. In 2015, […]

Health Attitude: Unraveling and Solving the Complexities of Healthcare In this excerpt, Dr. John R. Patrick explores how cultural attitudes toward consumer-initiated health care are changing and how technology is enabling this transition. Consumer Initiated Health Attitude A revolution is taking place right now when it comes to health care in America. Consumers are taking […]

Amidst today’s threat landscape, it is a positive sign that businesses have acknowledged data breaches as a corporate issue they must prepare for. Research shows business leaders are now more aware of the detrimental impact a data breach has on brand reputation. However – after reviewing three years of survey data on how executives are […]

“Can I get this done without going to IT?” simply wasn’t an option for most enterprise projects in the past. However, the explosion of software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings has led non-IT people to start questioning when–and even if–they need to bring IT into the picture. IT has often been perceived as the bottleneck, creating pent-up frustrations […]

Every day, it becomes increasingly clear that the IT-makes-all-the-technology-decisions model is as outdated as dial-up Internet access. From executives demanding that IT investments deliver concrete business results to end users bypassing IT departments by signing up for services like AWS, Dropbox, Office 365 and Yammer, the days of IT exercising absolute control over technology spend […]

As another year comes to an end, security experts are looking back at the trends and most notable breaches in 2015. From Anthem to the Office of Personnel Management to top security vendors falling victim to infiltration, 2015 was a banner year for malware, data breaches and advanced persistent threats (APTs). Using what they’ve learned […]

Growing a technology company isn’t only about raising new capital – it’s about wisely spending the resources you already have. No company of any size is immune to this principle, not even Google, as evidenced by its hire of all-star, Wall Street vetted CFO Ruth Porat, to rein in the behemoth company’s spending. Porat’s hire […]

A quiet, underground revolution is taking place in the security industry as companies shift from focusing on the perimeter to capturing and analyzing the residue left on endpoint devices by hackers and cyber attacks. Several years ago, a community of forensic researchers began reverse engineering the innards of operating systems. Their efforts led to finding […]