Looking for Great Mobile Business Apps? They Don't Exist...Yet

by Jamie Barnett

It has become a common occurrence: Tired of juggling multiple devices, a C-suite executive approaches the company IT manager and requests access to the corporate network on a new tablet or smartphone p...

Embrace Your Data and Keep it Safe

by Margaret Dawson

No one would question the importance of network security. It has long been an IT focus and discipline about which we can become an expert and specialize in specific areas or technologies and for which...

Making the BYOD Trend Secure for Your Organization

by Reza Nabavi

They include the sales rep who’s constantly making in-person visits to clients, as well as the business development manager who calls up shared files/docs in a coffee shop. Not to mention the IT ...

Seven Essential Components for Business Continuity Plan Success

by Doug Kavanagh

Last year marked what many experts called the “Year of Disasters” as the United States set a record with 12 separate billion-dollar weather/climate incidents.

It is no wonder that weather and non-wea...

The London Olympics: An Exercise in Avoiding IT Overload

by Joop Janssen

1.8 million. That’s the number of people who have already purchased tickets to see the 10,000-plus athletes compete in this year’s summer Olympics in London. For those lucky ones, the Games represen...

Backup as a Service: Unearthing the Most Practical, Web-based DR Solutions

by Nick Mueller

Disaster recovery (DR) has been a concern for IT teams as long as businesses have relied on computers. The issue now in 2012 is that many of the techniques for delivering DR, such as tape backups, hot si...

NAS Targets Disk - and Tape

by Molly Rector

Addressing astronomical data growth and increasing accessibility demands

Over the last 10 years, “Data Growth Continues its Breakneck Pace” ¹ could be the name of a regular column in any storage p...

Building a Prime-Time Lineup: Invest in IT Training and Education

by Nancy Hammervik

What sets your core partners apart from the rest? Why do they perform better?

To answer that, think of your partners like prime-time television programs. Some are like Friends and others are like the spi...

IT Trends: Realizing Big Strides in Efficiency and Innovation by Exploiting Technology Advances

by Dr. John Busch

Tremendous technology advances have been made in recent years that offer the potential for major improvements in IT efficiency and innovation. Commodity hardware industry advances in enterprise flash...

Guaranteeing Scalability and Financial Return for VDI

by Gary Orenstein

Organizations looking to scale desktop deployments and reduce costs with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) face critical choices to pick the right solution. Storage array vendors claim that th...