ITBE Staff

Strictly speaking, robotics, drones, automated telephone calling and autonomous (driverless) cars are only tangentially related. They all work without human intervention and utilize tools such as machine-to-machine (M2M) sensors, artificial intelligence and advanced imaging. At a higher level, the key is that they replace something that most folks probably intuitively feel wouldn’t be replaced: intelligence […]

Adaptiva, an award-winning provider of IT efficiency and systems management solutions, recently announced their 2014 predictions for the enterprise IT and systems management industries. Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth following a very lean 2012, with managers becoming more resourceful and extensively leveraging emerging technologies to reduce expenses and increase efficiencies. Businesses […]

The holidays mark the busiest travel time of the year, and for businesses, that means employees may be working anywhere, from home to on the road. So how do businesses make sure their employees stay connected during this busy travel time, no matter where they are? Adam Simpson, CEO of Easy Office Phone, provides the […]

Having a mobile play is expected today, but doing it right and making it pay for enterprise constituencies is another matter. ServiceNow has identified five IT executives, across a variety of industries, to share tips and advice for CIOs and other IT executives on developing and executing a winning mobile strategy. From scaling effectively to […]

2013 was the most historic year ever for cyber attacks. The industry saw several mega attacks that included sophisticated DDoS attack methods. All too many times this year has the industry heard the name “Anonymous,” a dispersed international network of hackers associated with highly publicized DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks, largely as a result […]

With the holidays almost upon us, it’s time once again for small and midsized businesses (SMBs) to focus on protecting themselves and their customers. The shopping rush has the potential to swamp company websites, and cyber thieves will be waiting for an opportunity to exploit weaknesses in data-rich systems. But by taking a few simple […]

‘Tis the season for tech buzzwords to fill the air. Trends such as responsive Web design became commonplace. Wearable computers emerged as the next (potential) revolution. And HTML5 established itself more than ever in application development. There were also unintended trends that emerged from this past year. Healthcare.gov propelled phrases like “Web application development,” “back-end […]

According to Yo Delmar, vice president of MetricStream, 2013 has been witness to extraordinary change. We are living and doing business in an increasingly global, mobile, social and Big Data world, fraught with new risks and complex regulations. As such, individuals and organizations are struggling to keep pace. In response to greater uncertainty, complexity and […]

Big Data as it pertains to health care has emerged at the center of the revolution in personalized medicine. Simply put, the proliferation of data offers great possibilities for more precise diagnosis, as researchers are able to drill down to see what’s happening and create more targeted therapies, specifically at the molecular and tissue levels. […]

Microsoft released 11 bulletins for the final Patch Tuesday of the year. In 2013, we saw a total of 106 bulletins, which is an increase of 22 percent over 2012’s total count. December’s patches include five critical, six important, and they cover 24 CVEs. As promised, Microsoft addressed the Graphics Components vulnerability in bulletin MS13-096. […]

Employee personal adoption of the cloud combined with a range of improvements in the security of cloud technologies have driven more CIOs to consider cloud computing to cut costs and improve IT efficiency throughout their organizations. By the end of 2015, the size of the global cloud services market is estimated to be $180 billion. […]

As we near the close of 2013 and companies begin preparing for the new year, Easy Office Phone, a leading provider of cloud-based business phone services, has announced a list of the top trends in business communications that will shape the year ahead. “The intersection of mobility, cloud and increasingly fast network speeds will continue […]