Careers

Thrive articles

3 Critical Elements of an Executive Job Search

Fri, September 16, 2011 - Your resume, LinkedIn profile and professional bio make up the triple jump that launches an executive job search, says career coach Ross Macpherson. He explains how each of these elements complement each other and offers advice on how to make them stand out.

Why CIOs Should Clone Themselves

Wed, August 31, 2011 - CIOs who want a strategic role need to delegate. Start by training an up-and-coming leader to be second-in-command.

How to Make Time for Your Professional Development

Thu, May 12, 2011 - Larry Bonfante, CIO of the United States Tennis Association, has 3 tips you should know

What Does Running IT Have to Do With Politics?

Wed, October 27, 2010 - How a financial-management firm’s CIO leveraged his IT-management skills to win a Georgia state senate seat.

Three Steps to Performance Review Prep

Mon, May 17, 2010 - Windy Warner, President of Procoach offers her advice for how to get the most out of your performance review.

Self-Promotion: Learning the Right Way to Brag

Sat, May 15, 2010 - Tooting your own horn is critical to career advancement. Get expert advice on how to promote yourself without coming off as arrogant.

How CIOs Can Stay Tech-Savvy

Thu, October 29, 2009 - As the business side clamors for constant attention, it's easy for CIOs to lose sight of their roots: technology. And brushing up on your skills can be easier than you think.

Three-Minute Coach

Thu, October 29, 2009 - Steps to avoid feeling burned out.

Three-Minute Coach

Mon, October 12, 2009 - How to assess a potential employer's office space to determine whether its corporate culture suits you

How to Best Hold Managers Accountable

Tue, August 25, 2009 - Help desk receiving frequent complaints? Roger Connors and Tom Smith, authors of How Did That Happen, offer advice.

1 2 next page »

Related Careers Solutions

How-To »

News »

Research & Analysis »

White Papers »

Top Solutions and Tools to Prevent Devastating Malware

Custom malware frequently goes undetected. According to Forrester Research, the best way to reduce risk of breach is to deploy file integrity monitoring (FIM) tools that provide immediate alerts. This white paper has been brought to you by NetIQ, the leader in solving complex IT challenges.

Identity Governance: The Business Imperatives

This white paper describes the business challenges and opportunities that are driving interest in Identity Governance while discussing considerations your organization should make to help achieve project success.

CA Technology Brief: CA Point of View: Content Aware Identity & Access Management

This paper explores the concept of content-aware IAM, describes the integrated architecture for this new approach, and highlights the benefits that this approach provides.

Measuring the Business Value of CI in the Data Center - IDC-HP White Paper

One of the key strategies that IT teams are pursuing to reduce capital costs while boosting asset utilization and employee productivity is the transition to highly virtualized data centers. However, IDC finds that expectations for further boosts in IT asset use and operational efficiency often surpass the actual results for a variety of reasons. These problems can quickly overwhelm any hoped-for benefits as the scope of virtual server deployment expands.

Accelerate time to application value

For your IT organization to keep pace with the business, you need a new, faster approach to infrastructure deployment-an approach that increases agility and accelerates time to application value. That's HP Converged Systems. Built on Converged Infrastructure, these systems deliver the industry's first portfolio of pre-integrated, tested, and optimized infrastructure solutions for applications running in virtual, cloud, dedicated, or hybrid environments.

Business Value of Blade

The nature of the blade platform makes system management, monitoring and provisioning easy and efficient. Access this resource to learn how blade migration will save your data center time and money while increasing performance.

Webcasts »

Apps QuickStart Series Part 2: Designing and Deploying SQL Server on VMware vSphere

Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as support considerations

Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View - Webcast

Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Challenges and barriers that might impede the adoption of desktop virtualization
- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
- Optimizing qualitative and quantitative benefits to IT and your business

Architecting a Modern Approach to Data Management

Applications are changing - they're increasingly web-oriented, global in nature and run from multiple device types. Additionally, the volume of data is growing exponentially every year. How do you ensure your applications have fast, accurate, up-to-date information in this new world? Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn't working. What's needed is a modern approach to data. One that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance, but without sacrificing data consistency or integrity.

Introduction to VMware View 5

VMware View™ 5 simplifies IT management while increasing end user freedom by delivering desktop services from your cloud. Building upon VMware's leadership in desktop virtualization, VMware View 5 delivers a high-performance user experience while giving IT greater policy control.

View this webcast and find out how VMware View 5 can help you:
- Deliver the highest fidelity experience of desktop services across any device and any network
- Simplify and automate IT management, security and control of desktop services
- Reduce the costs associated with your desktop environment

The CIO's View: Time-to-Value Through Automation

IT professionals are being asked to deliver faster "time-to-value" than ever before. An IDG Research survey found that CIOs are eager to invest in technologies that will enable them to get new applications and services up quickly, achieving faster time-to-value.

5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation

Learn how to reduce IT management overhead, ease revision control, guarantee data security, scale systems more quickly and reduce server and software costs.

Newsletter Sign-Up »

Receive the latest news test, reviews and trends on your favorite technology topics

Choose a newsletter