ITBE Staff

2014 was a year of big technology changes. Wearable technologies started to make their mark. Multiple high-profile companies suffered from data breaches that compromised customer information. Cloud computing became the norm for companies storing information, everything became software-defined, and Big Data broke into the mainstream. Despite all of that, 2015 promises to bring even more […]

More and more companies are realizing the benefit of adding unique design and amenities to their office spaces. Custom-themed kitchens, complete gyms and creative meeting spaces can help foster a strong company culture, close-knit teams and even a healthy work-life balance. This slideshow features 2014’s 10 coolest office spaces shared by employees on Glassdoor – […]

Without a doubt, tablets will be a hot item this holiday season. Retailers from Best Buy, Wal-mart, Target, Kohl’s and Staples are hard at work offering can’t-miss deals this holiday for a host of “bargain” Android tablets. But how much of a deal are you really getting? Bluebox Labs recently purchased over a dozen tablets […]

Enterprises today are looking to make every aspect of their data center infrastructure more software-defined – with the ultimate goal of achieving the software-defined data center (SDDC). According to Andrew Hillier, CTO of Cirba, the SDDC is not achieved by simply bolting together virtualization, software-defined networking, and software-defined storage technologies. Rather, it is an operational […]

Thinking about moving your Oracle enterprise applications to the cloud? Excellent. There are many benefits to cloud computing, but first you have to get there — and it can be (but doesn’t have to be) a daunting process. As you determine the best approach for your organization (e.g., public or private clouds, hosted and managed […]

The amount of effort being put into developing mobile apps is staggering. When designed correctly, mobile apps become competitive weapons that can give a business the upper hand in the battle for market share. But there’s an obvious problem with the majority of apps: They’re not very good. They might do the job, but they’re […]

It’s no secret that Big Data is having a positive impact on the contact center industry. And as businesses are faced with growing amounts of data on everything from the effectiveness of their marketing strategy to individual customer preferences, it is important to identify the right systems to make use of this information. In today’s […]

Wearable technology has been on the fast track to consumers this year, with a myriad of companies trying to get their products out and in the hands of buyers as soon as possible. As with smartphones, wearables will be flooding the market for the foreseeable future, and whether businesses like it or not, consumers are […]

For the past 70 years, business branding has been largely guided by principles developed in the 1950s and 1960s — when there were only three television networks, messaging through advertising was easy to control, and information flowed from a few “trusted” news sources to millions of people. This one-to-many model of information flow has been […]

No matter how hard you try, sometimes things just don’t go the way you plan. Be it family, work, or education, we’re not perfect. Things happen. Heather Huhman, writing for Glassdoor, points out that “the reality is, nearly every professional has had an experience where they made a mistake or missed a deadline.” These flaws […]

We have data, lots of it. We want access to that data anytime, from any device. We want to access that data now, not 20 minutes from now. This always-on, high-data volume demand has significantly increased the strain on network bandwidth. A recent study conducted by Emulex Corporation, a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and […]

The Time Bandit Solution: Recovering Stolen Time You Never Knew You Had This excerpt from chapters 1:00 and 1:30 focuses on the causes and manifestations of time lost as a result of unwanted, unnecessary and wasteful interruptions, and provides a calculator to measure how much of your time is wasted by interruption time-loss factors. You […]