ITBE Staff

With ever-increasing sophistication and frequency of attacks, rapidly detecting signs of breaches and insider activities is critical for any enterprise. According to recent research by IBM and Ponemon Institute, the average cost of a data breach for a company has increased 23 percent over the past two years, costing $3.79 million. Cloud applications with a […]

Cloud management platforms (CMPs) are being implemented by enterprises now more than ever to manage and automate the flow of new workloads into the enterprise. However, no commercially available CMP today takes a deep enough look at the workload’s resource, technical and business-related requirements to make these routing decisions. Most rely on logic that sends […]

In the age of cloud computing, much has been made of the changing face of corporate IT. Teams are no longer responsible for just a behind-the-scenes, keep-the-lights-on type of IT service. They now find themselves transforming to be a more customer-facing provider of streamlined IT services to end users. As such, IT as a service […]

In today’s economy, companies are constantly trying to do more with less. Core business processes that were typically “endured and ignored” are now gaining visibility as efficiency morphs into a key competitive advantage. When processes run more smoothly, it frees up time for employees to focus on other aspects of the business, creating a chain […]

Technical Evaluation, Testing, and Validation of the Usability of Electronic Health Records This document provides the empirical rationale for critical patient safety-related usability guidelines for standardization of EHRs. This document provides the empirical rationale for critical patient safety-related usability guidelines for standardization, as well as requirements for validation testing to ensure safety-enhanced design. These standardization […]

Deloitte published a report recently, noting that “the market is currently underinvested in the area of vendor management, particularly when it comes to tools, methods and processes.” This same report also noted that businesses are increasingly outsourcing functions. As vendors have become more important in the day-to-day functioning of businesses, companies need to ensure that their data […]

Big Data generated by retail, social media, and the Internet of Things (IoT), as well as the challenges of storing and analyzing such data, are now commonplace ideas within the IT landscape. What is less common is the discussion about Big Data’s impact on networks, both today and in the future. Understanding the interplay between […]

Raising awareness and training employees on cybersecurity is hard. It’s draining. It’s thankless. And all too often, it’s ineffective. A big part of the problem is that IT approaches it with unrealistic expectations, and with tactics and messaging that may resonate with them, but not their audience. As a result, there’s often a disconnect between […]

From startups to large enterprises, most companies understand the need to create APIs around their products and services to drive adoption, improve integration and generate an ecosystem around them. However, while APIs provide the fundamental building blocks to reach a developer audience, other assets are required to help developers consume those APIs efficiently and securely. […]

Classes are officially in session. What better time than the start of a new school year to brush up on your cloud security knowledge? According to the Research and Markets’ Global Security Services Market 2015-2019 report, the market for security products and services is growing globally and demand for cloud-based security is leading the charge. With security threats […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) can be simply defined as an interconnection of uniquely identifiable, embedded computing-like devices within the Internet infrastructure, but the term and dictionary definition often only limit future applications of the technology. A recent IoT industry survey by New Harbor Research and commissioned by Progress found that nearly half of the […]

According to a new survey from Spiceworks, a professional network for IT, technology budgets are expected to remain relatively flat going into 2016, increasing by only 1 percent year over year. Additionally, nearly 60 percent of respondents indicated that headcounts are expected to remain flat, despite expected increases in company revenue. While budgets and staffing […]