ITBE Staff

Data management challenges have significantly slowed adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise, with relatively few enterprises having adopted cloud computing for core workloads outside of a few SaaS use cases like email or customer account management. There are several reasons for this, but meeting data management requirements of business-critical enterprise applications remains a primary […]

2014 is shaping up to be the year of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack is when malicious codes infect a computer, triggering mass attacks against targeted websites, making them inaccessible to regular users. If the attack is strong enough to affect network equipment at the perimeter of the target (e.g., […]

Content is king, but churning out mountains of content is not a sustainable or effective way to target millennial customers. Today’s audience is constantly bombarded with marketing messages everywhere they go, so what matters is creating the right content for the right audience, and then delivering it consistently wherever that audience prefers. For millennials, social […]

According to Gartner, Internet of Things vendors will top $309 billion in direct revenue by 2020, with most of that money stemming from services. While there are significant opportunities for the Internet of Things in the enterprise, challenges arise when translating data to legacy infrastructure technologies now being connected to the Internet. For the first […]

In early 2014, among other things, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to encourage testing the deployment of Internet Protocol (IP) networks in place of long-standing incumbent copper-based networks that have been the foundation of the Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN). The FCC’s regulatory reform efforts associated with the technological shift toward Internet Protocol (IP) […]

Beach season is officially here! If you want to spend more time this summer paying attention to the barbeque than your firewalls – then it’s time to get your firewalls in shape! A bloated firewall rule set will slow down firewall performance and hide security issues, making it difficult to track down access violations and […]

Guidelines on Mobile Device Forensics This guide provides an in-depth look into mobile devices and explains technologies involved and their relationship to forensic procedures. Mobile device forensics is the science of recovering digital evidence from a mobile device under forensically sound conditions using accepted methods. Mobile device forensics is an evolving specialty in the field […]

GM ‘s well-publicized customer service nightmare, following its “faulty ignition” recall, is but one example of a major company in the throes of customer backlash in recent months. Amazon experienced a similar – and sudden – surge in customer complaints following its Christmas delivery fiasco. In times of customer crisis, what are the best practices and technologies available for handling these unannounced call […]

Digital business is changing the way organizations use and think about technology, moving technology from a supporting player to a leading player in innovation, revenue and market growth, according to Gartner, Inc. However, digital business should not be considered an IT program and should instead become an enterprise mindset and lingua franca, with digital expertise […]

Log data is becoming an increasingly important indicator of companies’ application, IT and overall business health. It is the go-to data when things go wrong. More than ever before, companies are turning to logs to proactively troubleshoot in development, support real-time performance-monitoring efforts, analyze user behavior and assure security compliance. Based on Logentries‘ 25,000 global […]

Before there’s the need to hire sales, digital marketing and finance professionals, companies need creators. And, there’s no doubt this job market has been good to tech’s chief creators – our software developers. In the first quarter of 2014, the unemployment rate for software developers was 2.8 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. […]

Wi-Fi Enabled Healthcare This excerpt from chapter 6 looks at the use of Wi-Fi-enabled mobile medical devices in health care settings. Chapter 6: Mobile Medical Devices Focusing on its recent proliferation in hospital systems, Wi-Fi Enabled Healthcare explains how Wi-Fi is transforming clinical work flows and infusing new life into the types of mobile devices […]