What’s on the minds of VARs and solution providers? Each week, ITBestOfBreed takes a trip through their blogs in search of perspectives that can help broaden your knowledge of current information technology issues.
Here are three recent posts.

SOFTCHOICE: Make way for the rise of big data

How do you prepare for the boom in big data? Drew Robb outlines three points in launching a "big data" project: defining the purpose, identifying the project phases, and finding out who should be involved.

CARAHSOFT: Protecting endpoints in government

The increasingly ubiquitous use of mobile devices by government employees is making endpoint security increasingly complex and necessary. Ethan Palmer outlines four things the public sector needs to know about endpoint protection.

CSC: Embracing change in health care

The status quo is an enemy of health care. In this post, Michael Brouthers advises CIOs in that industry to drive the change rather than ride in the back seat.