Should tech pros get an MBA?

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	Should tech pros get an MBA? Technical experience combined with business acumen is an appealing package, particularly for senior IT management roles such as CIO and IT director. But earning an MBA is no golden ticket for IT pros, staffing experts caution. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IBM IBM Information On Demand 2011, Oct. 23 - 27 Drive innovation and business optimization with the best in technical and business education. Join us in Las Vegas this October to help solve your toughest information challenges Click to continue In this Issue Long lines for iPhone 4S as servers crash at Japanese launch Did FBI tail terror suspect using Wi-Fi called 'FBI Van 1'? Microsoft strong-arms hardware makers into social responsibility Enterprise Or Bust: Huawei Says "En Garde" to Cisco F5 BIG-IP upgrade improves IP services, battles DDOS attacks Oh Siri, you so silly! 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Download whitepaper: 8 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5 Long lines for iPhone 4S as servers crash at Japanese launch Hundreds lined the streets of Tokyo on Friday to be the first in the world to get their hands on the iPhone 4S, temporarily crashing the registration servers at one Japanese mobile operator. Read More Did FBI tail terror suspect using Wi-Fi called 'FBI Van 1'? According to a San Antonio media report, the man accused of planning to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington, D.C., was not the sharpest tool in the box. However, if neighbor accounts are to be taken at face value, the same could be said of the FBI agents tasked with foiling his alleged plot. Read More Microsoft strong-arms hardware makers into social responsibility After years of failing to get Microsoft to adopt a formal environmental sustainability policy, shareholders seem to have won: Microsoft will now insist its hardware suppliers comply with the company's social responsibility requirements. Read More Enterprise Or Bust: Huawei Says "En Garde" to Cisco Huawei has been a disruptor in the telecom market for years but remained only a perceived threat to enterprise infrastructure suppliers. Huawei's broad portfolio coupled with its quality engineering gives Huawei a better than punchers chance of becoming a dominant enterprise vendor. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Reduce Virtualization Management Complexities Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now! F5 BIG-IP upgrade improves IP services, battles DDOS attacks F5 is touting new DNS capabilities in its BIG-IP v11 software as a way for service providers to save money, stave off distributed denial-of-service attacks and scale to support rapidly expanding IP services. Read More Oh Siri, you so silly! Featured at Apple's launch of iPhone 4S last week – before we mourned Steve Jobs and then realized the iPhone 4S was headed for a demand tsunami – was a little thing called Siri. As users start playing around with it, they are discovering that Siri has a built-in sense of humor. Read More Microsoft grabs Android, Chrome royalties from world's largest notebook manufacturer In its first deal specifically naming Google Chrome devices, Microsoft today announced that Quanta Computer has joined its patent protection plan. Quanta has signed a patent agreement with Microsoft to cover Quanta's tablets, smartphones and other consumer devices running the Android or Chrome Platform. Read More RIM's Pain is Microsoft's Attempted Gain I guess when your market share would make for a really good golf score on a tough hole, you have to do anything to gain ground. In Microsoft's case, it's giving away 25 Windows Phone devices BlackBerry users frustrated with this week's outage. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase® IQ Accelerates Advanced Analytics The market-leading column-based analytics server, Sybase® IQ offers accurate answers, scalability and speed for your advanced analytics environments. No platform is better suited to help your business analyse, compete and deliver above the competition. Read now Keys to successful data center consolidation Data center consolidation continues to be a hot topic, and with good reason. It has proven to be an effective way to reduce costs and complexity, setting organizations on a course for more efficient IT management. But while the benefits are proven, the path to success takes careful navigation. Read More Mozilla bashes Microsoft's browser security test Mozilla has responded to Microsoft's new browser security test with jabs against Internet Explorer. Read More Google's Schmidt (finally) takes to Google+ After being noticeably absent from his company's own social network, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt finally has joined the ranks of Google+ users. Read More IT Outsourcing: Study Ranks Best Nearshore Locations for U.S. Customers A new quarterly ranking of Latin American countries rates Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica and Argentina among the best locations for nearshore outsourcing. Read More
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