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"For people with the right skills and the right attitude, this is a fantastic time to be in the data center space," says Dwight Gibbs, senior vice president of technology at Input, a Reston, Va., market intelligence firm. Here are 10 skills that can get you hired.
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stinkymountain writes:
Mike Heck got his hands on an early version of Sharepoint and reports, in Network World, that it's faster and more intuitive than Sharepoint 2007. He says SharePoint Server 2010 allows IT departments to run applications such as enterprise search, content management, collaboration and business intelligence on a single platform.
Together with improved Internet site capabilities, SharePoint 2010 means companies can avoid the licensing and training costs associated with separate apps. SharePoint 2010 also offers improved developer and administration capabilities, which will likely speed application creation while easing server management.
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stinkymountain writes:
Extreme Labs product reviewer Tom Henderson says Ubuntu Server is ``a fast, free, no-frills Linux distribution that fills a niche between utilitarian Debian and the GUI-driven and, some would argue, over-featured Novell SUSE and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
In our business transactions benchmarking tests, Canonical's Ubuntu Server 9.0.4 was nearly as fast as the closest Linux cousin we've reviewed recently, Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.''
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/060109-ubuntu-server-test.html
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stinkymountain writes:
Network World is predicting the demise of pointing and clicking: ``The venerable mouse, created by Internet pioneer Doug Engelbart, has been unchallenged since the dawn of modern computing. But rapidly maturing touch and speech technologies are threatening to dethrone the mouse as the dominant computer input device.
Looking ahead five years, as the idea of a computer changes from a box under your desk to a device on your car dashboard, or on the bathroom mirror, or in your pocket, the mouse will become less important — maybe even a distant memory.''
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Pre-standard 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet products — server network interface cards, switch uplinks and switches — are expected to hit the market later this year. And standards-compliant products are expected to ship in the second half of next year, not long after the expected June 2010 ratification of the 802.3ba standard.
Despite the global economic slowdown, global revenue for 10G fixed Ethernet switches doubled in 2008, according to Infonetics. And there is pent-up demand for 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet, says John D'Ambrosia, chair of the 802.3ba task force in the IEEE and a senior research scientist at Force10 Networks.
"There are a number of people already who are using link aggregation to try and create pipes of that capacity," he says. "It's not the cleanest way to do things...(but) people already need that capacity."
D'Ambrosia says even though 40/100G Ethernet products haven't arrived yet, he's already thinking ahead to Terabit Ethernet standards and products by 2015. "We are going to see a call for a higher speed much sooner than we saw the call for this generation" of 10/40/100G Ethernet, he says.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/042009-terabit-ethernet.html?ts0hb&story=ts_spmc
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stinkymountain writes:
Product tester Joel Snyder got his hands on an early beta of Microsoft Exchange 2010 and he reports that: ``Microsoft has packed changes into every corner of the product — the list of new and improved features is eight pages long. We didn't test every one, but we can say that there's plenty for e-mail administrators and end users to like in this upgrade.
For end users, especially those making heavy use of webmail and distribution lists, Exchange 2010 provides a better user interface and expanded capabilities, including self-service management of many Exchange features.
If you are thinking of upgrading to Exchange 2007 but haven't done so, the new end-user features in Exchange 2010 may make the six-month wait worthwhile.''
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/041509-exchange-2010-test.html?ts0hb&story=ts_cctex
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Network World takes a deep dive into the hidden features and security flaws of all the major browsers — IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. ``We found many obvious changes — improved tabbing systems, better performance, privacy helpers, integration with Web applications, polished interface, and much more.
But there are underlying changes in the areas of security, networking and development that IT professionals who support users on their networks or run sites that must accommodate users wielding these browsers need to understand.''
http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/040609-next-gen-browser.html?ts0hb&story=ts_cctbrw#article
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Not really, according to CIOs and IT staffing firms. "Computer science degrees mattered a lot 20 or 15 years ago, when IT was a cost center. But the job of being in IT has completely changed. The huge IT budgets are not even under CIOs; they're under the lines of business," says David Foote, CEO of Foote Partners, which conducts a quarterly survey of IT skills and pay. "This has brought in a whole new group of IT skills that come out of mathematics, economics, business and marketing."
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/040609-hot-tech-skills.html?hpg1=bn
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Extreme Labs reviewer Tom Henderson got a sneak peek at Windows 7 Enterprise and says, ``This high-end bundle will have all the bells and whistles befitting a corporate client operating system including support for scripted PowerShell commands for easier centralized management, help desk-friendly tricks and desktop virtualization options.
Specifically focused towards use within large organizations with volume licensing deals in place, the enterprise edition of Windows 7 will be strongly reliant on Microsoft's group policy controls and Active Directory service advancements.
According to the enterprise strategy outlined by Microsoft product managers during the New York event, Windows 7 Enterprise will come with a wide variety of tools that should resonate with network and system administrators. Some will be bundled in the base price while others will come with an added fee.''
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/030209-microsoft-windows7.html
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Now that disclosure laws are forcing companies to reveal the details of data breaches, researchers are able to pore over hundreds of cases and analyze the most common causes of data loss. Examples: — Only 18% of breaches come from inside employees, but those insider hacks are the most damaging. — Many breaches are due to hackers compromising third-party business partners. — In most cases, companies aren't even aware they've been hacked until notified by an outside party. — And a major cause of breaches remains unpatched or misconfigured machines. Go figure.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/020909-data-loss.html?ts0hb&story=ts_dlv
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stinkymountain writes:
How fast is 802.11n? Wireless tester Craig Mathias tested five 802.11n routers and found that they deliver performance approaching 100M bit/sec. That's about five times faster than 802.11g and bodes well for 802.11n or MIMO wireless networks replacing Ethernet for enterprise WLAN deployments.
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2007/100107-mimo-test.html
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stinkymountain writes:
``It sounded like a no-brainer back in 2003. The idea was to replace our aging, 155Mbps ATM-over-SONET network with a new network based on 10G Ethernet over dense wavelength division multiplexing. Nobody could have imagined the glitches, snafus and legal holdups that we ran into over the past four years. We finally issued the contract for the project in May, and, needless to say, we learned a bunch of valuable lessons along the way. Here's the whole saga, from the beginning,'' writes network exec Jeff Fritz in this first-person story in Network World.
http://www.networkworld.com/research/2007/072307-n etwork-upgrade.html?netht=072307dailynews2
