ITBE Staff

From monitoring your network, to recovering lost files, to managing bandwidth, system administrators are constantly tasked with difficult, time-consuming jobs in order to keep organizations running smoothly and securely. Their time and efforts often go unnoticed or underappreciated, and they are the first to take the blame when things go wrong, which is why motivating, […]

We have reached an inflection point in the rate of data creation that, unless you are willing to start throwing huge quantities of it away, you simply cannot afford to continue using the same technologies and tools to store and analyze it. The existing data silos – impractical for many reasons beyond pure expense – […]

Recent large data breaches involving the loss of sensitive employee information are signaling a shift in the security landscape. Hackers are no longer focusing solely on credit card information and financial data to sell on the black market. Instead, cyber thieves driven by different goals are now targeting a wider variety of information, from password […]

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 90 percent of businesses have less than 20 workers, meaning SMBs are the backbone of the U.S. economy. They also have a lot to think about – from marketing to business operations and everything in between, small business owners wear many hats. With so many moving parts, sometimes […]

The hidden reality in the SaaS community: It’s not the software, but the service that differentiates cloud providers in building quality customer relationships. So while many providers spend their time and resources improving the feature functionality of their software, their customers are focusing on expectations of the consistent quality of service delivery they’ve come to […]

Windows Phone market share is hovering at a lowly 3 percent, but hopes for Windows 10 on mobile are high. According to CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s “big mistake” was to focus on the PC as the perpetual hub for everything. As a result, the company was slow to recognize the importance of mobile devices, and […]

A fundamental shift has been taking place in IT departments across the country over the past several years. Today’s IT department plays a far more significant role in an organization’s bottom line than ever before, and must align itself to provide the services that will support the business and end users alike. Even with these […]

When you break down the components of your data center, you realize most have evolved in an effort to avoid the headaches with which they were once associated. Your networking platform is unlikely to introduce new problems into your environment, while your compute system is likely managed via virtualization. However, many of the management issues […]

As cyber threats become more sophisticated and complex, businesses need not only to ensure they are secure, but that their vital partners, suppliers and vendors are protecting themselves as well. According to the 2015 Verizon DBIR, 70 percent of observed cyber attacks involved a secondary victim. To avoid being blindsided, organizations are beginning to monitor […]

Email is the most pervasive and critical part of every employee’s work day. According to a McKinsey Global study, employees spend a whopping 28 percent of their work week on email-related tasks, which is over two hours a day. To put this in perspective, if your company has 1,000 employees, we are talking about email […]

Despite being months away, retailers are already hard at work preparing for the busiest time of the year: the holiday season. The period between Thanksgiving and Christmas can represent up to 20 percent of a retailer’s annual sales, and no one wants to miss out. As a result, many merchants temporarily loosen their fraud prevention […]

In the last couple of years, a lot of companies have started using BCS (Business Connectivity Services) to integrate data from external data sources into SharePoint. It was initially available with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and was called Business Data Catalog. Since Version 2013, it is not only possible to read information but also […]