Jeff Vance

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) used to be pretty straightforward. Online businesses use CDNs to accelerate static web content to keep consumers from navigating away from their sites. For years, CDNs were really about B2C interactions. They were, in essence, web acceleration tools, and the acceleration was accomplished by having many points of presence (POPs), which […]

As more companies seek to cut costs through off-shoring while boosting revenue through global expansion, they often forget about a big obstacle: the Internet. Mission-critical, time-sensitive applications don’t perform well when the traffic has to make a round trip from, say, Boston, MA to Hong Kong. Simon Ku, IT manager, North America, for Raritan was […]

2011 was a crazy year for mobile technology. iPads took the world by storm. Smartphones steadily replaced (and are starting to displace) feature phones. Carrier IQ put us all on notice that mobile privacy could be a major problem in the coming years. RIM finally opened up BES to other mobile OSes, which is pretty […]

The proliferation of content can be overwhelming for any organization. However, when employees constantly need to access rich video, audio, and images, IT has a problem: how can you help users (either inside or outside your organization) locate and access the exact asset they need, when they need them? Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions focus […]

A buying guide about social media tools for an IT audience? What gives? After all, these tools will be handled mainly by the marketing department, right? Not necessarily. According to Sarah Carter, vice president of marketing at Actiance,a social media compliance and security technology company, social media tools are currently being managed by revenue generators. […]

Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is arguably the future of hosting. Traditional hosting companies, carriers and a bevy of service-provider newcomers all have a stake in this new market space. Meanwhile, enterprises that are stuck managing traditional on-premise infrastructures are losing ground competitively against nimble, cloud-based startups. As data centers grow, so do operational […]

Until recently, mobile device management in the enterprise was simple. C-level executives and other key knowledge workers got BlackBerries, and IT controlled the handsets through BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server). Yet things have clearly changed. Even before the recent blackout, many BlackBerry users were starting to migrate away from the platform to consumer-focused devices like the […]

Although many enterprises are moving applications and other processes to the cloud, data backups and storage are still often local. On-site storage seem easier to control and secure, yet it’s costly to administer and leaves organizations vulnerable should a natural disaster hit. Moreover, bottlenecks often form at the local level, especially when integrating remote applications […]

As enterprise applications sprawl beyond corporate perimeters and as SaaS, Web Services and cloud-based applications continue to gain traction, organizations are learning something the hard way: their access and enforcement mechanisms aren’t ready for this new reality in the way employees and end-users do business. Forcing employees to remember a slew of passwords is a […]

Cloud Computing Webcast: Myths of the Cloud. Learn about cloud computing in this free webcast from New Horizons.   Are cloud security risks overblown? After months and months of hand wringing, a number of experts are warming up to the cloud as a way to boost security. Richard Spires, CIO of the U.S. Department of […]