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Career Advice: the Value of Certs

Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader Page Petry answers questions about certifications, winning a promotion and more. Full Story »
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Obama's H-1B Answer in Forum May Haunt Him

Until President Barack Obama responded to a question about H-1B visas during an online forum last week, the administration had said little about the controversial program.

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Apps-Related Jobs Tallied At 466K in U.S.

Nearly half a million jobs in the U.S. have been created because of the 1 million-plus applications designed for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, according to a new study.

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SAP Community Portal Launch Date Still Unclear Due to Bugs

A number of "showstopper" technical issues remain

Advice & Opinion

An Argument for Keeping IT Training Budgets Intact

Many of training's benefits are intangible and won't show up in an ROI analysis

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Programmer Personality Types: 13 Profiles in Code

To the world at large, computers are scary machines that are impossible to understand, and programmers are the mysterious geniuses who know how to manipulate them even if they are never able to fix yours for whatever reason.

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Engineer's Wife 'Ferocious' in Obama Q&A on H-1Bs

The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in Texas.

News Feature

Facebook's IPO Filing Reveals Technology Details

In addition to disclosing just how rich the company is, Facebook's S-1 filing shines a light on the company's IT infrastructure, technology patents, hacker mentality and need for speed.

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IT Salaries Rise, Bonuses Get Bigger

IT pros in Austin, Texas and Portland, Ore. saw the biggest salary gains, according to new data from Dice.com, a career site for technology and engineering professionals.

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Married to Your Desk? 5 Tips for a Better Relationship

Here's a sobering statistic: With a 40- to 45-hour work week, many Americans spend about 25% of the year on the job. For those of us who stare at computer screens all day, that amounts to more than 2,000 hours with our keisters glued to chairs. In less technical terms, we're practically married to our desks.

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Project Management Salaries Show Earnings Growth, Career Potential

The latest salary survey from the Project Management Institute proves that project management remains a lucrative IT career. It also reveals what factors influence project management professionals' salaries the most.

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IT Salaries: Growth Reflects Positive Changes in the IT Job Market

Software developers, information security analysts, network architects and business intelligence analysts are among the IT professionals experiencing the most significant salary growth in 2012, according to a new report from IT staffing firm Bluewolf.

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Lack of Data Scientists is the New Von Neumann Bottleneck

Strata Conference's Founding Chair, Edd Dumbill, talks about bridging the data and information gap

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Resume Makeover: How an Information Security Professional Can Target CSO Jobs

In CIO.com's latest resume makeover, executive resume writer Donald Burns helps an information security professional (who is also a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel) position his resume for management-level infosec jobs.

Advice & Opinion

Google's a Great Place to Work and Where You Work Sucks

Google is where every technology professional wants to work. The great benefits come from a business model driven by ad revenue that just keeps coming regardless of how and where the company spends money. However, the bad news is two-fold, writes Rob Enderle: Your employer will never be in this position and Google won't be in it forever.

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