Inside the Briefcase
By Blake Pappas , Experts reveal that over 64 million blogs incorporate Wordpress software. Therefore, when the announcement was made recently that Wordpress had been successfully hacked, the world paid attention. Read More >>>
By Earl Wright, BandwidthAs communication technology evolves, unified communications and managed service providers are racing to stay one step ahead of your needs. A big piece of this is their ability to offer you a broader palate of communications services. Read More >>>
By Praveen Asthana , GravitantSequestration burst out of obscurity and entered our household vocabulary in 2013. It got our attention because the impact of it is $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts from the Federal budget over the next ten years. Read More >>>
with Nobby Akiha, Actuate CorporationIn this interview, Nobby Akiha from Actuate Corporation outlines ways in which visual data mining, social media and predictive analytics can improve complex business variables and increase overall ROI for businesses today. Read More >>>
with James Richardson, QlikTechIn this interview, James Richardson from QlikTech discusses the value of self-service BI and outlines ways in which an effective Business Discovery platform can enable users to explore live data and solve business problems in new and creative ways. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingA TechNavio report reveals that the government cloud computing market will increase by an average annual rate of 6.2 percent through 2016, as governments begin moving their data onto the cloud. Read More >>>
By Joe Caserta, Caserta ConceptsIs Big Data a business initiative or an IT initiative? For decades, businesses have been trying to make sense of disorganized transaction data sprinkled throughout the enterprise, relying heavily on human resources to analyze data via data warehouses. Read More >>>
By Martha Crow, Londonbridge Technologies, Inc.According to a December 2012 report from research firm IDC, big data market revenue will grow by 31.7 percent each year until it hits the $23.8 billion mark in 2016. Read More >>>
By David Greene, Riverbed TechnologyIn this interview, David Greene from Riverbed technology offers expert advice for organizations looking to quickly, economically, and efficiently secure and protect data in the data center while ensuring that branches have the performance and resource availability required to successfully conduct business. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingIt’s usually safe to say the more you know in your particular job field, the better off you’ll be, certainly in terms of job security. Now it seems the more you know about cloud computing and its related ecosystems, the better paid you’ll be. Read More >>>
with Brad Peters, BirstIn this interview, Brad Peters, CEO and C0-Founder of Birst, offers expert advice for organizations looking to measure their true business value through agile data analytics, and highlights the importance of an enterprise caliber cloud BI solution. Read More >>>
with Steve Farr, TIBCOIn this interview, Steve Farr from TIBCO discusses trends that have emerged in data management over the last decade, and highlights the ultimate business value of being able to analyze data in real time from anywhere in the world. Read More >>>
with Mike Dickey, CloudmeterIn this interview, Mike Dickey, founder of Cloudmeter, outlines ways in which organizations today can efficiently transform large amounts of data into actionable information, and accentuates the value of leveraging data to gain better insight into the end user experience. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingCloud computing is truly earning its stripes: The latest institution to call on the cloud to cut costs and put its security features to the test is none other than the U.S. Navy. Read More >>>
with Suvish Viswanathan, Zoho Corp.In the below interview, Suvish Viswanathan from ManageEngine discusses the myths surrounding enterprise search and big data, and takes it to the next level, referring to enterprise search as the ‘Mother of All Structured Data Search’. Read More >>>
By Mike Sheldon, Network Hardware ResaleWhile the economy is showing signs of an uptick, many businesses are not ready to throw caution to the wind quite yet in terms of their approach to IT infrastructure investment. Feeling the pinch first hand, IT departments have grown accustomed to being asked to do more with less. Read More >>>
with Mac McConnell, BonitaSoftIn this interview, Mac McConnell from BonitaSoft describes some of the positive and negative attributes of social business, and outlines ways in which BPM and social business can work together to increase efficiency and productivity for enterprises today. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingThe cloud gained a legal victory recently in a case between a startup and several major broadcasting players. The U.S. Court of Appeals in New York has refused to shut down Aereo, a service that allows users to record live broadcast content in the cloud for later consumption. Read More >>>
Daniel Joseph Barry, NapatechThree recent trends in the IT industry have improved the efficiency and effectiveness of digital services: cloud computing, big data analysis and mobility. Unfortunately, this also provides cybercriminals with fewer, and more valuable, targets. Read More >>>
By Yves de Montcheuil, Talend Dark data that beyond these limits resides, if properly mastered, incredible opportunities for Data Jedis will create, for the Force to unleash and for their organization’s bottom line to levitate. Read More >>>
By Kurt Hagerman, FireHostA highly secure cloud is not a myth. It’s not even out of reach. In fact, you can lock down your virtual infrastructure as tightly as any Fortune 50 enterprise does, by getting four components right: security, management, performance, and compliance. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingThe cloud is transforming the way businesses access and store critical applications and information, and it’s also changing the roles of IT workers in general and database administrators in particular. Read More >>>
with Tim Minahan, AribaIn this interview, Tim Minahan from Ariba outlines ways in which social business networks provide an easy way to link, coordinate, and conduct virtual business in today’s rapidly evolving business world. Read More >>>
with Lisa Joy Rosner, NetBaseIn this interview, Lisa Joy Rosner from NetBase outlines ways in which organizations can integrate the data being collected through their social media channels, and utilize this social data in conjunction with their other data sources to maximize business value. Read More >>>
with Ethan McCarty, IBM Enterprise Social Web StrategyIn this interview, Ethan McCarty, Director of IBM Enterprise Social Web Strategy offers expert advice to business entities interested in utilizing social business to increase productivity and foster innovation within their organization. Read More >>>
with Tara Sporrer, Moxie SoftwareIn the below interview, Tara Sporrer outlines ways in which companies can maximize the benefits of social business by making accessible the “collective smarts” of their organization. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingResearchers at MIT are hard at work revealing how cloud computing can perform to its greatest potential while helping businesses gain a firm understanding of the pricing of cloud services and how to diagnose any potential hiccups in the system. Read More >>>
By Ray Gerber, Thunderhead.comMaintaining your customer base requires critical insight into their needs, preferences and behavior. It also requires consistently delivering positive experiences that strengthen relationships…Read More >>>
By Raj Sabhlok, ManageEngineWith March Madness underway, IT teams across the country are feeling the impact of the NCAA basketball tournament games streaming on their companies’ networks. Read More >>>
By Srdan Mutabdzija, Schneider ElectricThis article discusses common issues SMBs face as they strive to achieve energy efficiency and maximize operations in their wiring closets and server rooms, and suggests solutions and best practices for helping overcome these challenges. Read More >>>
