Curious about your coworker’s weird new glasses, or the little black wristband that has become more popular than the little black dress? Welcome to the wearables at work movement.  Wearable devices have a variety of benefits, from elevating fitness to improving business processes to increasing camaraderie in social groups and at work. We can now ...

In light of the recent string of high profile data breaches, information security is quickly becoming a front burner issue. According to a recent Trustwave survey of more than 800 IT professionals worldwide, 58 percent expect to be under more pressure to secure their organizations in 2014 than they were last year. Understanding how attackers ...

Big Data analytics encompasses far more than just reporting and dashboards; it’s about unearthing insights and opportunities, and answering questions that you didn’t already know. Big Data analytics won’t be successful unless you focus on the problems you’re trying to solve. Some persistent myths about Big Data stand in the way of organizations’ success, though. ...

Over the last decade, virtualization has revolutionized the data center by more effectively leveraging the CPU and memory resources on the server to increase hardware utilization and reduce operating expenses. Of course, as with all things performance-related, once a log jam is alleviated at one choke point, the bottleneck shifts to another part of the ...

In the past decade, Internet, mobile, and cloud technologies have redefined our lives and enabled a new generation of collaboration technology that is driving business value by allowing officer workers to interact around content more effectively than ever before. While effective cloud collaboration can increase an organization’s overall efficiency by allowing employees to communicate and ...

Most good rivalries begin with some sort of differences, and OpenStack developers are beginning to side with either Ceph or Swift when it comes to choosing a storage solutions. Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide highly scalable object block- and file-based storage under a unified system, excellent performance, reliability ...

Communication, collaboration and clarity are prerequisites for business success. However, achieving a state of collaboration “zen” – in which a company communicates effectively internally and externally – requires rethinking the way we work. Consider: We live and work in the age of “information overload.” We read hundreds of emails a day on disparate devices, work ...

The benefits of migrating IT services to the cloud are well known and compelling, but many enterprises list privacy and security concerns as the number one reason to hesitate. Privacy and the cloud do not have to be conflicting goals. Here are four things companies should really focus on with respect to privacy and security ...

Software developers and system administrators around the world are losing the equivalent of an arms race, trying to detect, fix, and shore up weaknesses exposed by numerous vulnerabilities such as the OpenSSL HeartBleed vulnerability. More than two months after HeartBleed was reported, it is estimated that more than 300,000 servers are still at risk. In ...

The confluence of social, mobile and cloud has created an “app-etite” for all things tech, laying the groundwork for the next big tech revolution: the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT has the power to transform lowly mechanical and electronic devices into modern marvels, disrupting entire markets in the process. With disruption comes dollars. According ...