ITBE Staff

When Spiceworks surveyed IT professionals recently about their attitudes toward certifications, one of the most interesting data points was that about half of the respondents will be paying for their continuing IT education themselves this year. Only 56 percent said that their employers would pay for training in 2014. But half of the IT pros […]

There is an increasing amount of buzz around Microsoft’s upcoming plan to stop releasing security patches for Windows XP. While the majority of the noise is doom and gloom, it becomes important to look at this from a practical perspective to figure out what an organization can do to see itself through this transition smoothly […]

Propelled by the resounding success of agile on a smaller scale, large global enterprises are increasingly trying to tap the power of agile across distributed teams and complex initiatives. However, while agile works well in the nimble setting of smaller teams and projects, finding the right recipe to make it work across the large-scale, complex […]

Baseball spring training season is marked with a series of practices and exhibition games to prepare new and old players alike for the coming official season. This year’s Pittsburgh Pirates spring training at Pirate City in Bradenton, Florida also included leadership sessions with best-selling author Bill Treasurer. The invitation came after Clint Hurdle, the Pirates […]

The way businesses communicate today is changing rapidly; advanced mobile devices, video solutions and cloud computing have opened the door to new and inventive communications capabilities. But these same unified communication technologies have also driven additional complexity into the IT department. Converged Technology Group, an award-winning managed services partner (MSP) serving clients throughout the Northeast, […]

A new CA Technologies study confirms what many in the industry have suspected: Technology spend outside of the IT department is growing rapidly. As software-driven business transformation becomes the norm and businesses use new applications to engage their employees and customers, this trend is expected to continue, and accelerate, in the years to come. “TechInsights […]

Juniper Networks, an industry leader in network innovation, finds the cyber black markets have a mature economy with characteristics akin to those of a thriving metropolitan city. A new global report, sponsored by Juniper Networks and conducted by the RAND Corporation, reveals several economic indicators that cyber black markets have reached unprecedented levels of maturity […]

In-memory technology was around long before Big Data became a buzzword. Parallel computing dates back to the 1980s. With lower cost memory and greater workload demand, in-memory computing has emerged as a key technology. A diverse array of industries, such as finance, retail and ecommerce, looking to capture business opportunities in real-time, are turning to […]

The mobile world has done wonders for the ‘anytime, anywhere productivity.’ We can now work productively with the flexibility the modern employee needs to balance work and life. At least, that was the promise. The reality is that an always-on mobile lifestyle, and the resulting expectations from employers and clients, often cause burnout in the […]

Searching for a new job often takes a lot of work and dedication, and with so many online resources, it can be difficult to keep up. Mobile apps have opened a wide range of opportunities and provided a whole new level of connectivity that can help in your job search. We’ve pulled together 10 highly […]

According to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute – the pre-eminent research center dedicated to privacy, data protection and information security policy – data breaches cost U.S. enterprises an average of $5.4 million per incident in 2012. Cintas Corporation partnered with the Ponemon Institute to identify five digital devices that are overlooked areas in […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) has a potential transformational effect on the data center market, its customers, technology providers, technologies, and sales and marketing models, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner estimates that the IoT will include 26 billion units installed by 2020, and by that time, IoT product and service suppliers will generate incremental revenue […]