Kim Wright

The more information you have about the requirements of proper compliance, the more protected your business is from the threat of litigation and the resulting loss of revenue. To help you take an informed approach to security and compliance, we’ve gathered 15 essential tools and templates from our IT Downloads. Click through for 15 tools […]

Data breaches are reported all the time in the news – and often when a breach occurs, fingers are pointed at everyone from hackers, to CSOs, IT and even end users. So in looking at a typical breach, Jackson Shaw, senior director of product management at Quest Software, wanted to break down why the fingers […]

For most organizations, the data center represents the heart of their technology infrastructure. And just like the hearts of the staffers working there, the data center requires a certain amount of exercise to keep it strong, healthy and performing at peak condition. To help IT professionals improve the performance of today’s data center in their […]

As the workplace becomes increasingly more mobile (over 80 million new smartphones and tablets entered enterprises in 2011; that number will reach 140 million by 2013[1]) and the bring your own device (BYOD) trend continues (62 percent of organizations allow employees to use personal devices for work[2]), custom mobile apps are emerging as a way […]

Sometime yet this year, you or someone you know is likely to be told they are overqualified for a job. The speaker may be a recruiter or a friend, a decision-maker or a drainer of hopefulness. And when they say or hint at the overqualified label, they may mean something about your talents, or about […]

In today’s busy world, it’s essential to stay in touch and have access to business documents and functionality anytime, anywhere. Mobile devices have opened a new world of accessibility and flexibility for day-to-day business users. We’ve pulled together 15 popular collaboration apps that help streamline the business process and provide unprecedented access to business productivity. […]

Whereas “Big Data” will make organizations smarter, open data will be far more consequential for increasing revenue and business value in today’s highly competitive environments, according to Gartner, Inc. “Big Data is a topic of growing interest for many business and IT leaders, and there is little doubt that it creates business value by enabling […]

Many business and IT leaders tasked with executing on social-media-based efforts do not place enough emphasis on the “social” aspect of community participation, according to Gartner, Inc. Although numerous organizations have achieved social media success, failure rates are very high because leaders and managers rely too heavily on social technology functionality and often miss the […]

While much of the industry is focused on what’s going on in enterprise networking inside the data center to enable cloud computing, IT also needs to consider the network that connects the data centers – particularly how these inter-data-center networks need to change to support new cloud use cases and associated network requirements for bandwidth […]

The phrase “help desk” often brings to mind a remote technical support team assisting callers with computer application issues. But today’s help desk has undergone profound changes. Service desks today are based on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) principles that direct providers to align their IT services with the needs of their clients’ businesses. As […]

As you know, security is often seen as a tradeoff with business agility. But it doesn’t have to be. When practiced correctly, information security shouldn’t slow down the business, but actually complement it and even improve agility. This slideshow features five tips, identified by AlgoSec, on how to make sure management buys into your information […]

Big Data, 3D printing, activity streams, Internet TV, Near Field Communication (NFC) payment, cloud computing and media tablets are some of the fastest-moving technologies identified in Gartner Inc.’s 2012 hype cycle for emerging technologies. Gartner analysts said that these technologies have moved noticeably along the hype cycle since 2011, while consumerization is now expected to […]