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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. Full Story »
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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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.

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U.S. Tech Firms Add Jobs Despite Automation

U.S. technology companies are investing more in machines than in people, but tech hiring is nonetheless rising, according to a new report by Forrester and a just-released National Science Foundation study.

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U.S. Report Sees Perils to America's Tech Future

In report, Commerce Department looks at competitive threats and internal weaknesses in new report

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Facebook Brings Back the Hack

In its third annual Hacker Cup, Facebook is inviting programmers to rapidly solve programming challenges

Advice & Opinion

Career Advice: Managers Shouldn't Get Buried in Details

IT leader Doug Beebe answers questions about managers who get buried in the details, and also has advice on what qualities are lacking in new hires and the wisdom of pursuing an MBA.

Sounding Board

How to Increase IT Staff Skills

Practical strategies CIOs are using to give staff broader IT and business experience without increasing headcount

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New Year, New Job? Ten Companies That Are Hiring

Execs offer advice for getting tech jobs in fast-growing companies

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Encouraging Users to Embrace Big Business Data

How CIOs are bringing non-IT staff into the information worker’s world

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GOP Advances Bill to Help China, India Tech Grads

A key House committee this week approved a Republican-sponsored high-skill immigration bill intended to help advanced degree holders in India and China get green cards to work in the U.S.

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Oracle's Exadata Means Changes for DBAs

IT shops that want to run Oracle's database machine need to rethink their skill sets

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Google is Most-Sought Employer -- Again

College students pick Google for third straight year; IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Apple also make list of most attractive employers

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The Inside Scoop on Nationwide’s Social Networking Project

Nationwide wanted to use an internal social network to improve productivity and interactivity. It ended up using Yammer, and here’s why.

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Wanted: BI Stars

Demand for tech workers with that rare blend of analytics and business skills is on the rise.

 
Are you ready to diversify? The business needs of companies are changing often and rapidly. Open virtualization offers compelling business advantages and shows even greater potential as companies choose diversification over proprietary vendor lock-in.
Find out how your IT department's IT asset and services management strategy compares to that of your peers by using this unique tool. Click on the link below to begin our 10-minute assessment and see how your IT organization measures up!
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.
End User Experience, 30-Min Webinar
Wed. Feb. 22nd ~ 11 AM ET

Are you ready to gain the proactive ability to rapidly respond to end user problems (before they call the help desk)? Then you won't want to miss a webinar that will show you the latest innovation in end user monitoring.
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.
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