Monday, May 07, 2007

Doubts surround would-be Microsoft/Yahoo deal; Five cool future IT positions

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Doubts surround would-be Microsoft/Yahoo deal
Microsoft and Yahoo are at it again – talking that is – about a merger that would create a formidable foe to battle common competitor Google.

Five cool future IT positions
Looking for a career challenge? Here are five new job titles cropping up in IT departments across corporate America, as well as a brief job description for each one.

Web-hosting companies accused of being havens for infected sites
StopBadware.org Friday identified five Web-hosting companies with myriad infected Web sites residing on their servers, which the industry watchguard says puts unwitting Internet users at risk.

NAS - The Answer To Your Storage Problems?

Where should you deploy NAS? How does it compare to SAN in scalability, performance and manageability? Get answers with John Dix, Network World Editor-in-Chief, and storage analyst Russ Fellows as they provide an inside look at issues, trends and new developments with this fast-evolving technology.

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Thin clients in, PCs out at Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless is hip deep in a project to replace thousands of call center PCs with Sun’s thin client terminals. And the carrier is already counting up the savings.

Foundry packs Gigabit, 10G power into small switches
Foundry Networks this week launched two Gigabit-to-the-desktop LAN switches with optional 10G uplinks, targeted at enterprises with growing bandwidth needs and slim IT budgets.

Q&A: Diligent CTO demystifies data deduplication
Diligent Technologies is among the pioneers of data deduplication technology, which helps enterprises reduce redundant copies of data and, in turn, shrink storage requirements and shorten backup times. Neville Yates, Diligent’s CTO, talked with Network World Senior Editor Deni Connor about the varying deduplication technologies used with today’s virtual tape libraries (VTL).

What’s holding IT organizations back?
What will the IT organization of the future look like? We gathered experts for a virtual roundtable discussion about how CIOs are reorganizing their IT operations to improve customer service and gain a competitive advantage from such emerging technologies as wireless networks, unified communications and service-oriented architectures.

Slideshow: 10 ways to boost your IT org now
A few steps you can take today to create a more effective IT department. We interviewed a wide range of experts -- government and commercial CIOs, industry analysts, a leading academic and a top recruiter -- to come up with a list of suggestions that any IT executive can follow to improve their organization.

Dell joins Microsoft, Novell in Linux collaboration
Dell is backing the Windows-Linux partnership set up by Microsoft and Novell. As part of the deal, Dell will buy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft for corporate customers that are not already using Linux, the computer maker said Monday.

Microsoft delivers Hotmail upgrade
Microsoft has closed the public testing period for Windows Live Hotmail and has begun a months-long process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its Hotmail Web mail service, the company will announce Monday.

Blogs

Today on layer 8, where "C" grades were OK by us in college:
An online cash-for-grades scheme is about to explode in California as yesterday the college at the center of the stink sent prosecutors the names of 74 students who may be charged with felony crimes. College administrators and police said students paid student employees about $600 per changed grade and as many as 400 grades were altered during the course of three years.

From Cisco Subnet: Enter to win Routing TCP/IP Vols I and II
We have 15 copies each of both volumes of Jeff Doyle's Routing TCP/IP book, renowned as a must-have resource for network managers troubleshooting IP routing problems, to give away. Also, check out Jeff's blog at Cisco Subnet.

From Microsoft Subnet: Enter for a chance to win Essential SharePoint 2007 book:
Essential SharePoint 2007: Delivering High-Impact Collaboration is published by Addison-Wesley and comes out May 22 and we have 15 copies to give away. Also, check out the co-authors' blog on Microsoft Subnet.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

1. Homeless man disrupts Internet2 service
2. Top 15 all-time 'network-iest' TV characters
3. Top 15 controversial Microsoft quotes
4. The 50 best consumer tech products ever
5. Is MPLS alternative DOA?
6. Google home page bug strikes again
7. Court rejects Vonage request for retrial
8. Slideshow: Cisco's New Catalyst 6500 blade
9. What's a Microsoft-Yahoo merger mean for Google?
10. Provider exec: SLAs are just 'marketing fodder'

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