Research from ISC-squared and Robert Half Technology shows that companies continue to seek high-tech talent for open IT jobs, but not always successfully.
So many notable quotes, so little space to recount them -- that's the annual conundrum as we think back on the year and recall comments that stuck with us long after they were uttered. We've assembled some of those notable comments from stories we wrote and stories we read and offer them here in not-quite chronological order because we wanted to let Oracle CEO Larry Ellison have the last word.
All data-center products claiming to be green are not created equal. That's because metrics to determine how green equipment is usually are vendor-driven and measuring energy efficiency can be a chore for network architects.
If Verizon and AT&T are serious about getting into the entertainment business, they need to think about how best to leverage their assets (Internet backbones, broadband access to consumers, world-class quality of service) so as to enable the kind of distributed content creation that's the hallmark of 21st-century communications. It's not about piping 'content' to passive consumers (the old cable model).
Several factors are coming together in the LAN world that are going to push cabling in one direction or another, but it’s unclear - to me, at least - what will win out.
HIPAA understandably makes it hard for organizations to obtain personal health information and even harder to use that information for the purpose of data analysis. Empowering patients to own and share their own data -- and then assuring them that it's being properly de-identified -- can ease this process.
The European Commissioner in charge of the single market, Charlie McCreevy, said Thursday he is restarting a consultation with industry with the aim of simplifying the European Union's approach to copyright levies.
The recently released "2004 Webtorials WAN Equipment State-of-the-Market Report" revealed an interesting anomaly concerning standards. In particular, users feel that standards are very important - even for areas where standards don't exist.
Now that you all are at least experimenting with Open Enterprise Server (you are, aren't you? If not download your evaluation copy from the link below), I bet you've been asking yourself "Should I get certified on this new system?"
A recent study indicates that many organizations' mobile policies concern themselves more with direct, immediate cost-saving behavior than with big-picture liabilities or limits on user productivity.
We all know that these days, bandwidth is "free." Specifically, it's a commodity service whose cost is so low that it's no longer a significant component of telecom costs.
When virus outbreaks and network downtime threatened customer data, Curtis Simonson faced a conundrum: How could he allow the necessary network access for customer and employee PCs and laptops without also subjecting his environment to disruptions?
Visibility into the service providers' networks has always been a bit of a conundrum. The simpler the network, the less there is to look at, and the lower the network functionality. Along with this decreased functionality, there also is a lack of efficiency, and the associated increase in price.
In the last newsletter, we discussed Visual Networks' revamped a la carte capabilities and pricing structures. We also mentioned our frustration and amazement at the relatively low penetration that these devices have made into the marketplace in spite of their obvious value. We think a part of this low penetration comes from the historical conundrum of having a separate yet highly intelligent DSU/CSU as opposed to an integrated unmanaged DSU/CSU in the router.
LAN cabling experts and vendors say that organizations installing copper cabling in data centers should investigate new unshielded twisted-pair products that can support future high-bandwidth technologies such as 10G Ethernet.
The California wine served at a U.S. State Dept. lunch today for India's Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, was called Conundrum, a word that sums up the difficulty trying to decipher President Barack Obama's approach to offshore outsourcing and H-1B visas.
Several “Wireless in the Enterprise” readers tell me they face a conundrum when considering deployment of Wi-Fi scanning systems that monitor the airwaves for security vulnerabilities and performance problems. The specialty overlay systems that do a really good job at these functions are expensive, as many of you have opined, when contemplating deploying what amounts to an entirely parallel enterprise-wide wireless network dedicated to monitoring functions.
A survey conducted by IT research firm Gartner earlier this year pinpointed the staffing conundrum facing CIOs today: It's hard to reward and retain key IT staff who weren't laid off from their organizations when there's no money in the IT budget for raises.
This is the classic dilemma of the communications industry - keeping customers loyal while aiming for new customers. It's a balancing act of epic proportions.
Any manager can tell you that whenever we acquire asset - be it storage hardware, software or humanware - the initial purchase price is just the beginning. People require training, and have certain expectations regarding what should happen at the end of each pay period. Hardware and software require maintenance in the form of upgrades, patches and so forth. And so it goes on.
Last time, we discussed new global DSL access options to Virtela Communications' Internet-based VPN services. Our discussion of the announcement with Virtela director of marketing Jeff Phillips led to an interesting discussion of WAN back-up strategies, because Phillips said one use of the new services is to back up leased-line access circuits.