One of the biggest personnel challenges faced by all companies is not just recruiting the top talent but keeping those talented people once they decide to join the company. Many businesses create programs designed to nurture these high fliers and teach them the advanced skills they need in order to climb the ladder and succeed.

Managing an Enterprise IT environment is a very serious business and today there are a wide range of tools to help IT professionals maintain their networks to ensure maximum up-time and efficiency. While there are tons of commercial options available, the truth is some of the very best tools for the trade are completely open-source tools available to anyone.

When using the phrase “disaster recovery plan,” it is important to distinguish between different types of plan. IT recovery plans are unique in that their importance in the 21st century has been raised to the level of mission critical. Few businesses that exist in the global marketplace can successfully operate without IT being involved in the process.

Businesses are bought and sold all the time with more and more businesses going up for sale each and every day. If you want to own your own business, one of the easiest ways to accomplish this is to buy an already established business instead of starting at the beginning and working to build it slowly.

In the second policy change in just a few short weeks, Facebook reversed its experimental policy on researching how users would react to changing news feed posts on their Facebook pages. Obviously, like the real name policy that the LGBT advocates shouted down and which was the subject of the first Facebook apology issued this week, Facebook needs to reassess its direction on how it uses the data provided by users.

If you could join a social network that pledged to never mine and sell your data or serve up ads to you, would you join? The new social network, Ello, hopes your answer is yes. Now dubbed the “anti-Facebook” network, Ello has been attracting as many as 31 thousand new users per hour due to its pledge of no advertising or data collection.

Though the power of Linux is rarely contested, the usability of Linux is often criticized and in many cases the appearance of Linux just doesn’t compare to modern Windows or Mac systems. The creators of the Linux distribution, elementary OS, plan on changing these opinions with their next version of the distribution, Freya.

News of data breaches in companies large and small has been regularly making the weekly headlines over the last few months. One survey estimates that 43 percent of all companies have experienced some type of data breach in 2013. The spate of bad news is getting under the skin of consumers who want more to be done to secure their personal data.

In a world where everything that connects to the Internet is subject to attack, Google has approached the problem with something everyone can relate to – cash. Currently the cash rewards offered for people who discover security flaws within its Chrome browser are between $500 and $15,000. The amount you receive depends on a number of factors, including the severity of the security breach and the total possible number of users any security flaw can affect.

The debate over which browser is the best will likely go on until a single browser controls the market. Depending on what study you read, Google’s Chrome has more than one half of the browser market, primarily based on its security reputation. Firefox comes in second, while Internet Explorer lags in third.