ITBE Staff

A recent report, “Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States,” co-chaired by Michael R. Bloomberg, Henry Paulson and Tom Steyer, suggests that “by 2050 between $66 billion and $106 billion worth of existing coastal property will likely be below sea level nationwide, with $238 billion to $507 billion worth of property […]

By Yo Delmar, vice president GRC Solutions at MetricStream, and Harvey Betan, associate principal at Risk Masters Inc. Business continuity programs are often considered on a standalone basis, but recent incidents that involve security breaches highlight how business continuity, disaster recovery, security and risk management teams are compelled to work more closely together in order […]

Enterprise data center architecture is in the midst of the most dramatic change in decades. Hyperscale data centers have pioneered the software-defined data center (SDDC) on industry-standard hardware. Enterprise data center operators recognize the value of this approach, but few have implemented it at the network and storage layers. A software-defined data center extends the […]

Halloween is here and this year haunted houses are incorporating more tech and features than ever before to create a more realistic experience. Larry Kirchner, president of Blacklight Attractions, Halloween Productions and Hauntworld.com, shares the top six tech advancements that are guaranteed to spook out your haunted house this year. For more inspiration, check out these top […]

Powered by Purpose This excerpt from chapter 2 focuses on identifying your values and how they affect the decisions you make in your personal and professional life every day. 278 MB | 3 files |  PDF According to consultant, coach and speaker Scott Deming, you, your company, your foundation or any organization you belong to […]

DevOps and operations teams are always focused on problem solving. They are not only under increasing pressure from tech-savvy, app-centric business users to collaboratively solve challenging business problems with IT, but also trying to keep up with a rapidly changing landscape of tools, technologies, processes and adoption. So, as we head into 2015, it is […]

Hadoop has come a long way since its inception. From its early days as a platform, to an index for the Web, it has evolved to its current interactive, real-time and batch processing capabilities spanning gigabytes to petabytes of content. However, as enterprises move Hadoop from pilot to production environments, they are finding the “on-boarding” process slow and […]

According to certified executive coach and author Peter C. Diamond, midlife is supposed to be the time when we should have it all. In actuality it’s more like, “My life is more complicated than I ever imagined and my career is not turning out as I had hoped. I’m at a crossroads.”   Perhaps the […]

Without a doubt, making a positive first impression is crucial in most pursuits, but never more so than when interviewing for a job. Heather Huhman, writing for Glassdoor, notes that many job seekers are unaware of how to make that perfect first impression. Most times, hiring managers and interviewers are looking for people whose personality […]

Digital marketplaces are some of the hardest businesses to build and, not surprisingly, are becoming increasingly more complex as customers’ demands and expectations grow. Savvy innovators across many industries are now changing traditional business models and creating new marketplaces built on advanced algorithms and technologies. Advanced algorithms use mathematical models for determining transactions between buyers and […]

With the launch of ApplePay for secure online and mobile payments, tokenization has become a hot topic in data security right now. Born from a need to secure PCI data, tokenization technologies substitute real data with fake data or a ‘token’ that has no value to a thief. Tokenization can be used to de-identify any […]

Recently, TEKsystems, a leading provider of IT staffing solutions, released results from its quarterly “IT Realty Check,” which compares current market conditions with the state of spending, skills needed and the impact areas originally reported in the company’s “Annual IT Forecast” released in November 2013. More than 62 percent of respondents in the 2014 forecast […]