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Infographic: 10 Ways to Make Your Warehouse More Efficient

April 24, 2017 No Comments

Want to know how you can make your warehouse more efficient? This infographic will take you through some great need to know tips on how you can achieve this. PeopleVox have made this awesome infographic taking you through 10 tips to make your warehouse more efficient. These include tips such as utilising your software, using just a few sizes of shipping cartons and maybe consider installing an automated system just to make it that little bit easier for you and your employees. Please see the infographic for some more great tips on making your warehouse more efficient.

The Secret to Big Data Project Success Through Analytics

April 20, 2017 No Comments

SEVEN SECRETS TO BIG DATA PROJECT SUCCESS

Driving Better Outcomes through Workforce Analytics Webcast

April 19, 2017 No Comments

Find out what’s really going on in your business with our new online analytics tool.

Docker: The New Ordinary

April 19, 2017 No Comments

There you were. You heard about Docker, become mesmerized, floated into it’s new special world…and then all chaos broke out. Things were not that easy and you scrambled for knowledge. Some folks saw the light and stepped forward, while others are still trying to figure the out the happy path home where containers will become part of their new ordinary.

Innovation at the IDB: Digital Transformation as a Vehicle for Development

April 19, 2017 No Comments

Change is never easy and it’s viewed by many as an even bigger challenge in public sector and inter-governmental organizations. This common perception was highlighted for me when I decided to join the Inter-American Development Bank. I was very excited about the IDB’s vision to improve lives across Latin America and the Caribbean, but most of my friends warned me that I should prepare for a bureaucratic structure and a strong resistance to change.

Identifying the Obstacles to Analytics Success

April 19, 2017 No Comments

Why do so many companies fail in their attempts to adopt big data analytics, and what can they do to improve their chances for success? For those of us in IT management, analytics is a familiar topic with a familiar value proposition. But for many organizations, success with IT analytics is less familiar. Why do so many fail in their adoption attempts? And how can you avoid failure and embrace success? As we’ll see below, the problems usually boil down to products, people and processes.

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Should you put your “eggs in one cloud basket”?

April 19, 2017 No Comments

with Carson Sweet, CloudPassageIn this interview, Carson Sweet, CTO and co-founder of CloudPassage, has evaluated why a provider might push for one cloud environment deployment option and how secure migrated data might be in those environments. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: IT and Procurement Should Partner Up As a Superpower

April 18, 2017 No Comments

with Chris Crane, Scout RFPIn this interview, Chris Crane, co-founder and VP of product at Scout RFP, explores not only why joining IT and procurement forces is a smart move for any business, but also some tips on how to bring both departments together to form the ultimate power couple. Read More >>>

Legacy Modernization: Look to the Cloud and Open Systems

April 17, 2017 No Comments

On the surface, mainframe architecture seems relatively simple: A centrally located computer processes data through an input/output subsystem and stores its computations in memory. At the other end of the mainframe are printers and terminals that communicate with the mainframe through protocols. For all of its apparent simplicity, mainframe architecture can be extraordinarily complex. Mainframes process thousands of transactions per second and require an extensive infrastructure to house and maintain them.

2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management

April 14, 2017 No Comments

This report assesses the strengths and cautions of each vendor in the WCM sphere. The evaluation is based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.

8 Factors that Influence Enterprises in Choosing the Right Desktop Management Solution

April 11, 2017 No Comments

Enterprises deal with complexities related to desktop management everyday. Desktop management has changed a lot from what it was few years back, with respect to innovation and cost effectiveness. System administrators face lot of issues being raised on a daily basis, having the right solution to take care of all your desktop management activities is going to be rewarding.

Advice From a Pathfinder: Digital Transformation Insights for Legacy Financial Institutions

April 6, 2017 No Comments

When I joined Ally Financial four years ago, we were still digging our way out of the after-effects of the economic downturn. Ally has its roots in the former GMAC, the General Motors subsidiary that for more than 80 years provided car buyers with financing through GM dealers. GMAC started a banking business in 2000, and in 2010 both the banking and financing businesses were rebranded as Ally Financial. In 2014, Ally became a publicly traded company. Along the way, the business was battered by the 2008 economic downturn, which forced us to cut costs and become more efficient in order to survive.

10 Things to Consider As You Choose Your Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solution

April 5, 2017 No Comments

The past decade has seen an increasing trend in employees using mobile devices like smartphones and tablets to aid in their work. This trend has fostered organizations to adopt practices like bring-your-own-device (BYOD) with hopes of improving employee productivity and efficiency. There is, however, a downside to this because such practices pose major risks concerning corporate data security and data management. In order to ward off these risks, enterprises seek out reliable mobile device management (MDM) solutions.

Still keeping your hybrid power systems indoors? It’s time for change.

April 5, 2017 No Comments

Mobile telecommunications network equipment is expected to work without issue 24/7. There is no compromise on this, which is why transmission equipment, BTS systems, RF equipment, etc., are designed, tested and built for operation in the most demanding of environmental conditions.

A Silicon Valley Point of View on Workers Comp: The Technology Community’s Role

April 5, 2017 No Comments

Occupational injuries cost the United States more than $250 billion annually. That is nearly three times the financial impact of cancer. Yet to date, the technology and analytics community has largely underserved the challenges of effectively helping injured workers get back to being productive rapidly. Injured workers are being pulled into complex processes unnecessarily. Claims adjusters juggle many balls and are not able to focus their time on what they do best: being a trusted advisor to the injured worker.

DevOps: Making the Boring Things Stay Boring

April 3, 2017 No Comments

Mykel is the DevOps Coach at Cotiviti Labs, the development arm of Cotiviti (http://www.cotiviti.com/). Every day the handle healthcare data, which as you know happens to be some of the most regulated and protected data around. As Mykel said, “We don’t do cat pictures on the Internet.” A mistake, breach, security flaw, etc. could mean the exposure of privacy and financial data for millions of people. But, they are a large organization, with exposure that needs to be managed.

Achieving Flash Storage Nirvana: Yes, You Can Have it All

April 3, 2017 No Comments

Whtepaper arguing the reason why flash storage isn’t enough to guarantee application performance and why Predictive Analytics is a requirement for critical applications in the context of today’s complex infrastructure.

The Real-Time Data Challenge Managing Thousands of Air Pollution Sensors

March 28, 2017 No Comments

The quality of the air we breathe is one of the leading environmental health hazards facing our global population. Last year the World Health Organization (WHO) released a global air quality model reaching the alarming conclusion that 92% of the world’s population is currently breathing air that’s polluted enough to represent a health risk. Additional WHO data estimates that 3 million deaths annually are attributable to outdoor air pollution, with two-thirds of these deaths occurring in the heavily polluted South East Asia and Western Pacific regions.

As the Network Changes, Engineers Are Embracing the DevOps Model

March 28, 2017 No Comments

Businesses that have embraced digital transformation with a clear strategy are outperforming their peers. A Capgemini study found that digitization leaders generate more revenue, are more profitable and enjoy higher market valuation. This transformation requires making rapid changes to the network without taking critical systems offline – no easy task. An organization succeeds at this process when its customers are unaware that the changes are taking place because no services are being disrupted.

How Customers are Driving Performance with BetterWorks

March 26, 2017 No Comments

Download this white paper and read how companies like Aol., Kroger, GoPro, Consumer Affairs, and getWell Network use BetterWorks platform to make it easy for their employees to set goals and give ongoing feedback.

Harvard Business Review: How Employee Alignment Boosts the Bottom Line

March 26, 2017 No Comments

Clear visibility among corporate, employees’ and supervisors’ goals leads to sharply improved financial results. It’s more important than ever for managers to keep their employees in line with overall company strategy.

The 5 Most Common Application Bottlenecks

March 23, 2017 No Comments

Application bottlenecks can lead an otherwise functional computer or server to slow down to a crawl. The term “bottleneck” refers to both an overloaded network and the state of a computing device in which one component is unable to keep pace with the rest of the system, thus slowing overall performance.

Section 508 Refresh Seeks Digital Access to All

March 23, 2017 No Comments

It is time for government agencies to take heed of accessibility requirements. The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (also known as the Access Board) delivered a final rule, effective March 21, concerning the contemporary implementation of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which relates to ensuring the availability of accessible IT in the federal workplace. Because technology is constantly evolving, this “refresh” serves to address technological advancements and keep the Rehabilitation Act current.

What to Consider When Switching Service Providers: An MSP Tells All

March 23, 2017 No Comments

There are ample reasons why a company may be looking for a new service provider: customer satisfaction issues with the current provider, a move to a new ERP application or migrating to a cloud solution, to name a few. Whatever the reason, it is important to understand the pitfalls that can happen when making the switch.

Transformation on a Global Scale

March 22, 2017 No Comments

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it’s people that make it happen. For an IT organization to help transform an institution, the individuals in the technology group need to make a concerted effort to look beyond their jobs in order to understand the needs, struggles, and goals of the business. Only by doing so will they be able to create and bring to the table new technology-enabled solutions.

Five Dangers of Siloed Information for IT and Operations Teams

March 22, 2017 No Comments

IT and Operations workers are many things, but bored isn’t one of them. According to a survey from IT community site Spiceworks, the average IT pro logs 52 hours per workweek.From scoping projects and managing bids, managing suppliers and coordinating internally, your IT and Operations teams have to deal with a lot of moving parts.

The Future of IT Troubleshooting

March 21, 2017 No Comments

A common approach to addressing any number of performance issues in IT environments is to throw a bunch of potential solutions at the wall and see what sticks. However, IT environments are becoming increasingly complex and varied, making the dart-on-the-wall strategy even less effective than it already was. As such, here I will cover what IT troubleshooting should look like in the hybrid IT world we now find ourselves in, and will continue to be encompassed by into the future.

Struts2 Exploited Again – Did Anyone Bother to Tell You?

March 21, 2017 No Comments

This week we saw the announcement of yet another Struts 2 Remote Code Exploit (RCE) vulnerability. What’s notable about this instance is that POC code seems to have been released into the wild either just before, or immediately after the disclosure. As was the case with previous Struts1 vulnerabilities, exploits are being observed at large scale in the wild.

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: As Container Adoption Swells, So Do Security Concerns

March 21, 2017 No Comments

Fei Huang, NeuVectorIn this Fresh Ink interview segment, we talk to NeuVector CEO Fei Huang about the most pressing container security concerns and strategies to mitigate them. Read More >>>

6 Marketing Strategies for Your Small Business

March 17, 2017 No Comments

One of the main problems facing small businesses is growth and getting the word out. You could have the best product or service in the world, but it’s still not going to make a successful business if no one knows about it. Many worry that without the huge marketing budget that huge firms have, they won’t be able to create great marketing strategies. Fortunately, this isn’t the case. Even with a small or non-existent budget, your small business can utilise some amazing marketing strategies and start to grow.

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