ITBE Staff

In 2013, the Apple App Store generated $10 billion in downloads. And both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store attracted over 50 billion downloads. For 2014, the momentum is likely to continue, but in a variety of directions. From spatial sensitivity for tracking exercise habits to having the power of IBM Watson on-the-go, […]

More than one in five employees (22 percent) report that searching for a new job is among their top career resolutions for 2014, according to Glassdoor’s 2013 Q4 Employment Confidence Survey. To help job candidates prepare for today’s challenging interview process and to ultimately find a job they love, Glassdoor, a jobs and career community, […]

Organizations and consumers alike need to be vigilant in protecting themselves against security threats, and it’s important to know what to look for. Social engineers are trained to deceive people into giving away access to confidential information, and they are being increasingly employed by organizations to uncover security vulnerabilities, which may come from unlikely sources. […]

GFI Software recently commissioned a scientific study that provides a profile of the American small business employee.  In a statistically-valid survey fielded by GfK Group, formerly Knowledge Networks, between September 28 and October 7, 2013, 1,119 respondents who work in organizations with between two and 99 employees answered questions about their work life, including how […]

Spiceworks, the vertical network for IT, recently announced the results of a new survey examining the 2014 spending priorities of IT professionals in North America as well as their view on growth within their organizations. On average, IT professionals surveyed plan to invest more than $300,000 on IT products and services this year, and 79 […]

Industry experts at Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, have identified a shift in the way enterprise organizations are embracing technology. While enterprise data center effectiveness was once defined by the technology it employed, today the way an organization accesses and consumes those technologies provides the most significant impact on business […]

According to Big Data security experts Gazzang, 2014 will be the year of data security. Between the Edward Snowden NSA leak and the hundreds of other data breaches that occurred in 2013, companies and consumers alike are beginning to take responsibility for their data and implementing encryption policies and solutions to prevent these kinds of […]

It’s always a good idea to take stock of your skills, your pay, and your certifications. To that end, John Hales, Global Knowledge VMware instructor, has outlined 15 of the top-paying certifications for 2014. With each certification, you’ll find the average (mean) salary and a brief description. Based on the 2014 IT Skills and Salary […]

When heading out for a business trip, either domestic or international, there are a variety of different apps travelers can use to ease the traditional pain-points of being on the road. Here are a few that help with organization, cutting costs and staying connected. Best Tablet Apps Click through for five mobile apps that can […]

Every year, we create more data than the year before. If you can believe it, 90 percent of the data in the world today was created in the last two years alone. IBM has estimated that our current daily creation rate is 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. IDC projects that the digital universe will reach […]

Guide to Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) Definition and Considerations This document provides Federal agencies with a definition of attribute based access control (ABAC). ABAC is a logical access control methodology where authorization to perform a set of operations is determined by evaluating a variety of attributes. This document provides Federal agencies with a definition […]

Will 2014 be the year of software-defined storage (SDS)? Amitabh Srivastava, President of EMC’s Advanced Software Division certainly thinks so. But he calls on enterprises and service providers to force clear definition of the term so that everyone is on the same page. Drew Robb takes a closer look at 10 things you need to […]