ITBE Staff

Between the slew of holiday tech gadgets – ranging from FitBits to iPad Airs to Galaxy Gear – and the hottest announcements from CES, there will be a lot of new connected devices being brought into the workplace this year. Of course this means more network connections to manage and more streaming data over both […]

In 2014, as organizations look to do more with less, IT performance management will be measured by business value. “Organizations are initiating many IT transformation projects to become more nimble, agile and cost-effective. For the success of these projects, organizations will need performance management solutions that are aligned with their IT strategy. Hence, performance management […]

The war for technology talent has traditionally been fought on the coasts of this country. Technology companies soak up professionals in Silicon Valley to invent the next big thing. The Federal Government, defense contractors and financial service companies scour the East Coast for tech talent. However, recruiters and hiring managers are now suggesting that the […]

This month’s Patch Tuesday aligns with Januarys of past … issuing a low number of Microsoft patches and giving IT a reprieve to start the year. We have just four new bulletins this month covering six CVEs. None of the bulletins are rated critical and only one bulletin was known to have active exploits prior […]

What is federated GRC? GRC, by definition, involves bringing together governance, risk and compliance disciplines from across an increasingly complex, extended enterprise with deep interlocks to customer and supplier eco-systems. While it’s not realistic to expect organizations to converge on a common set of GRC processes across this complex landscape, there is huge value in […]

“CEOs face no shortage of tough challenges coming into 2014,” says Stephen Miles, founder and chief executive of The Miles Group, which advises top CEOs and boards globally. “From our work with CEOs and boards this winter, we’ve identified the things that are front of mind for them this year.” Click through for 11 key […]

In early 2012, a group of Stanford University researchers interviewed 35 data analysts from 25 organizations across a variety of sectors, including health care, retail, marketing and finance, and identified the various challenges data scientists face in the data analysis process. Despite being in high demand and hailed as one of the hottest professions of […]

2013 was a year full of well publicized data-breaches. In August, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University exposed information on more than 100,000 job applicants because “someone on our staff goofed” according to the university. In July, an unauthorized employee of New York State’s Office of the Medicaid Inspector General accessed nearly 18,000 records of […]

Big Data was one of the hottest phrases of 2013, said first by technologists, and now echoed across organizations, especially by marketers. Why? Because marketing is no longer just an art; it’s a science. Marketers need to measure increasingly complex campaigns and customer touchpoints, and they haven’t always been comfortable with the number-crunching side of […]

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been on the rise in recent years. These attacks can easily elude and overwhelm most common defenses, paralyzing their targets. Investing in some type of dedicated DDoS defense is now a must for many businesses. The best way to effectively deal with these attacks is with a multi-tiered defense. This […]

The employment picture for technology professionals remains bright to start 2014, according to a Dice.com survey of nearly 900 tech-focused hiring managers and recruiters. Click through for a closer look at tech hiring trends for the start of 2014, as identified by Dice.com. Just as they did in Dice’s mid-2013 hiring survey, nearly three out […]

2013 has seen some massive outages. And given our heavy reliance on technology today, there is more at stake than ever before. Outages affect not only internal users, but a company’s customers and partners – and impact revenue, credibility, trust, reputation and productivity. With all of this in mind, Neverfail wanted to put together its […]