The Microsoft IT Academy creates a convenient and flexible learning environment that incorporates online learning, hands-on labs and face-to-face instruction. Microsoft provides lesson plans and an online curriculum, and I also develop my own activities and projects. It’s great because I can customize the program to meet the individual needs of my students.
The person whose artwork gets the most votes by Dec. 31, 2011, will be awarded the grand prize of “featured artist” status Read more
The shipment of the Windows Phone version, at least, ends a frustrating wait by partners for a product that was first discussed in late 2010. There was a drool-inducing array of TVs, set-top boxes and digital video recorders, all based on the lightweight, embedded version of Windows running the Media Center application for recording and playing TV content.
The recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPO/RTO) of enterprises improve considerably when combined with the Steelhead Read more
SAME DEUTZ-FAHR deployed Riverbed Steelhead appliances in its headquarters and four offices across Europe and India. It wasn’t long before users began to comment on the improved application performance speeds. “We quickly saw an overall improvement in employee productivity, and as an added bonus, the IT department stopped receiving complaints from our remote users about slow application performance,” said Bearzi.
“Riverbed continued to raise the bar in the Read more
Factors critical to a successful partnership include clear communications between partners, a robust suite of products and services; and a company’s reputation and reliability. The study reports that three-quarters of IT solution providers and 90 percent of telecom agents said effective communications between partners contributed most to the success of their partnerships over the last year.
According to a recent report from Gartner, “e-commerce is no longer just for retailers Read more
Kevin Tan, an IT manager with Lockheed Martin, uses the CompTIA CTP+ certification as a criterion for new hires. “We found that we’re supporting a lot of different solutions when we host a next generation data center or a call center,” says Tan. “We have Cisco Telepresence, and we have a lot of VoIP in our call centers. We need very specific types of individuals who have not only base level network administration skills but also knowledge of convergence technologies. We Read more
Corporations are deploying applications that centralize policy management and orchestrate and automate the testing and reporting of information management GRC and IT operations GRC activities. Compliance and risk management define the processes, controls, and actual computing assets impacted. Examples of these processes and controls include the physical host and virtual machine security, asset management, change and configuration management, network management, and disaster recovery and Read more