Wednesday, August 29, 2012

4 strategies for managing junior IT professionals

Netflix factor has university networks creaking under streaming video strain | New BlackBerry 10 devices impress -- but can they save RIM?

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4 strategies for managing junior IT professionals
Spring and summer school sessions have ended, and, if you're like a number of organizations around the globe, you have a giant pile of resumes and just a handful of openings for some fresh faces to join your firm at the bottom rungs of the corporate ladder. Hiring the right person is a difficult process, but managing the new employees--or, let's be honest, managing any employee--is even more challenging. Nobody sets out to be a bad manager, but that transformation can happen over time if your policies and your behavior are left unchecked. Read More


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Cisco Bring Your Own Device
This paper explores the challenges mobile devices create for IT, offers key considerations before adopting a BYOD strategy and highlights a comprehensive architecture from Cisco that enables freedom of choice for users while affording IT security and control. Learn more.

Netflix factor has university networks creaking under streaming video strain
With the return of students to the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth's campus in the fall, the university's network will be required to cope with a huge increase in demand -- and the major culprit, according to network systems manager Richard Pacheco, is Netflix. Read More

New BlackBerry 10 devices impress -- but can they save RIM?
You may not have noticed, but BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has been on a media blitz during the past few weeks, showing off its upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones to select reporters and bloggers in "off-the-record" demonstrations. Read More

10 Gmail tools to supercharge your inbox
From dynamic contact tracking to analytics in your inbox, these add-ons and services provide enhanced capabilities for both casual and power Gmail users. Read More


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Bring Your Own Mobile Devices to School
In today's educational environments, more and more students, guests, and faculty are bringing in their own Wi-Fi devices into the school's network. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions IT administrators are facing and how to address the security and management of the multiple devices being introduced into the wireless/wired network. Learn more.

Virtualized network services will be game changer for enterprise IT
Software defined networks (SDNs) open the door to services like software defined acceleration (SDA). Read More

Apple's early iPhone prototypes
Among the more interesting products of the Apple-Samsung trial are Apple's early iPhone prototypes that never saw the light of day ... until now. Read More

Ditching Postini, switching to Google Vault
For the 12-strong IT department at Caraustar, a Georgia-based recycled paper packaging company, switching from Google Postini to the Google Vault email archiving and management service was a matter of saving time, as much as anything. Read More


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Tablets in the Enterprise
Tablets are replacing laptops at lightning speed. Whether company-issued or part of the BYOD phenomenon, the increased use of smart devices has resulted in a dramatic shift in network traffic with an emphasis on wireless. This paper explains how to predict Wi-Fi demands and architect a best-fit wireless network strategy for your environment. Learn more.

What's behind the broken banks?
Hardly a day goes by without a story about the UK banking community messing up in some way or other. Some of the highest profile stories of the year have been around banks side-stepping regulation and fixing the markets for their own benefit. Read More

VMworld: Riverbed shows off killer app for VDI
Earlier this year, Riverbed released a product known as the "Granite Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure (VSI)" to optimize the performance of many of the applications that it's core product, Steelhead, does not. Read More

Extreme Tech: 22 Devices That Go All Out
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