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Six of the 25 hot executive jobs for 2007 are IT-related, according to Christian & Timbers' recently released list. The executive recruitment firm's 12th annual list categorizes in-demand positions by the driving forces that are changing markets, business plans, and investment strategies.
Benjamin Franklin said, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.. If he were around today, perhaps he would add another certainty to that list - "There are critics to every outsourcing deal."
In "Clap for Tinkerbell!" we discussed how PXE booting (pulling a bootable image across the network at server startup) might provide unprecedented levels of responsiveness in systems deployment and redeployment, with significant concomitant benefits in business continuity and server security (through rapid patch propagation). One synergistic technique that can be used in conjunction with pixie booting is server image management - manipulation of operating systems images to improve security and shrink serve
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It would be nice to pretend there’s a rationale behind the home improvement projects I take on -- some master plan for bettering our house, one project at a time. But the reality is, most often the projects that get bumped to the top of the list are the ones that require urgent attention.
Cuil, the latest search engine startup to come out swinging from its corner with the hope of knocking out Google, is instead taking a beating that could do it long-term damage as a credible contender.
Unison Technologies is offering its Linux-based unified communications software without charge to small and midsize companies willing to share their employees' eyeballs and attention spans.
A New York startup has launched an ad-supported Linux-based unified communications software suite aimed at competing with Microsoft and IBM in the small and mid-sized business market.
Part of the reason the network industry can support so many and such varied management technology providers is that there are myriad facets to monitoring, measuring and ultimately controlling the IT elements making up today's distributed networks. This is also the reason I am never at a loss for news and trends to cover.
It's no wonder only 29 percent of IT projects are completed successfully, according to The Standish Group. Project management consultants and software providers say they see IT departments making the same project management mistakes over and over: IT groups don't follow standard project management processes. They don't have the right staff working on projects. They don't assess the risks that could imperil their projects or determine ways to mitigate those risks. The list of mistakes unrolls like a ball of
I am still taking opinions on the question "What's better, a long or complex password?" I pose this to you after InfoWorld columnist Roger Grimes issued a $100 challenge to Bugtraq mailing list to crack is Windows password hash that's based on a long password.
Before Congress adjourns for the year, the Information Technology Association of America has a to-do list for politicians to work on. Phil Bond, president and CEO of the ITAA, notes that economic growth is tied to freedom to innovate with ideas and technology. The ITAA is a trade group dedicated to advancing the IT industry.
There was an interesting post to the BugTraq mailing list this week by InfoWorld columnist Roger Grimes. He's challenging people to break his NT password hash that is 10 characters long. The winner gets $100.
The European Commission Thursday sent Intel a new set of antitrust charges, the second such charge list within a year, Europe's top regulator said in a statement.
The Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers http://www.top500.org/lists/2007/06 was released June 23 and the list reflects how high performance computing is changing. Once reserved for the most complex of computing problems, HPC is now finding its way into more corporate data centers to handle tasks such as risk analysis. The reason is that this extreme computing power is becoming more affordable.
Doug Feigelson is a true entrepreneur, one who has built a successful business out of a custom solution he designed as part of another venture. He says he’d rather "fail completely" than sell his company, and, as a third-year computer science student at MIT, he regularly turns down job offers so he can focus on his startup.
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First of all, there is something that I meant to discuss a few weeks ago that surprisingly has not got much coverage. Art Medlar, a fellow inhabitant of a mail list I subscribe to explained that he is a client of TD Ameritrade, and being a cautious kind of guy he used unique primary and alternate e-mail aliases for his account.
TechAmerica's annual survey of federal CIOs reveals anxieties over chronic fiscal constraints and lack of budget authority. But there's more: Add security threats and challenges of recruiting and retaining top talent to the list of CIO concerns.
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Microsoft and Powerset confirmed Tuesday that Microsoft will purchase the search-engine startup. The news comes several days after a rumor about the deal circulated on the Web.
Network access control vendor ForeScout has added Oracle to the list of directory and access management software that integrates with its network appliance.
Most of us have a list of things that we’d like to do before we shuffle off this mortal coil. Some people’s lists include such things as base jumping naked off the Empire State Building or hiking across the Hindu Kush in the dead of winter in nothing more than Speedos and flip-flops.