Preparing for the Future of Business: Lessons from the Millennial Generation

The future of business will require organizations to think digitally, share openly, work fluidly and move quickly.

Your organization can develop these abilities with the help of your youngest – but soon to be largest – generation of employees: millennials. Their perspective is invaluable in helping organizations adapt to the changes technology is bringing to the workplace.

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The Importance of Policies for Event Management

Event management, although theoretically different, is fundamentally what most IT organizations refer to as “monitoring.” Monitoring an organization’s environment to determine whether important assets are in the state they should be, and knowing when that state changes, is a very important activity that many organizations spend significant portions of their budget doing.

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Securing Cloud Data

Information security in any public cloud can meet contractual commitments and still allow your data to escape into the wild. This discontinuity is the subject of articles across the web, including documented cases of secure infrastructure plus lax polices equaling a data breach. Cloud providers for storage, services, application, infrastructure, etc. provide services and pricing that many executives and end users find enticing. The per-click, per-gig or per-transaction-only fees get our attention. The built-in redundancy, access from anywhere and ownership-eliminating possibilities cause us to think, how can this be a bad thing? Finally, the rigorous security compliance standards that some cloud service providers meet allows us to think, this will be OK. And it can all go very bad with one click.

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