5 career-boosting soft skills

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	INSIDER 5 career-boosting soft skills Soft skills are not a new concept for IT. But time has run out for IT professionals who have been avoiding developing them. Now that technology is an integral part of business strategy, very few employers would settle for a candidate who could not function beyond the computer screen. And with teamwork and collaboration a mainstay of many work environments, personal interactions count, even within IT itself. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CA Technologies The power of convergence. CA Infrastructure Management Solutions brings all of your performance data together for actionable insight. The result? As much as 25x faster problem resolution, a better customer experience and up to 50% lower total cost of ownership. Take your business service to the next level with CA Infrastructure Management Solutions. Learn how In this Issue Arista looks to ward off Cisco with new low-latency switch UCLA study documents wireless data overcharges 12 things we know about Microsoft's new Surface tablet….and 1 thing we don't Google's dump-IE8 move backs Windows XP users into corner Gartner: Cloud to grow 20% this year to $109B market Half of companies surveyed report Web application security problems Emoticon to turn 30 despite Penn Jillette's objections Apple keeps top spot in customer satisfaction Getting the most out of broadband to back up MPLS Prepare your business for digital disaster WEBCAST: Riverbed Virtualize Your ADI: Are You Ready to Unbox? Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT Traditional application delivery controller (ADC) architectures focus on load balancing and lack the efficiency required in today's IT environment. Join Kavitha Mariappan, Product Marketing Director at Riverbed Technology, to discuss the benefits of an updated ADC. Learn more. Arista looks to ward off Cisco with new low-latency switch Arista Networks this week lowered the latency and upped the software programmability of its switches with the introduction of the Arista 7150S series. Read More UCLA study documents wireless data overcharges A recent study by four UCLA computer science researchers documents what some wireless data customers have long suspected -- they can get charged for wireless data access they never received. Read More 12 things we know about Microsoft's new Surface tablet….and 1 thing we don't For the first time ever, Microsoft is designing, manufacturing and selling a computer – the ARM-based tablet called Surface. The new product is slated to be available for purchase on Oct. 26. Here's what we know about the Surface tablet. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More Google's dump-IE8 move backs Windows XP users into corner Google has put Windows XP users in a tight spot by dropping support for Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), analysts said today. Read More Gartner: Cloud to grow 20% this year to $109B market The cloud computing market will grow almost 20% this year to become a $109 billion industry, research firm Gartner predicts, with business process as a service (BPaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) dominating the market, but infrastructure as a service (IaaS) quickly gaining momentum. Read More Half of companies surveyed report Web application security problems A survey of 240 companies questioned about the relation between their Web applications and security found about half experienced at least one Web application security incident since last year, sometimes with "severe negative financial consequences." Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Cisco Wide Area Application Services Software Release 5.0 Cisco® Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) provides the industry's most scalable, highest performance WAN optimization solution. Cisco WAAS is able to improve end user experience and reduce bandwidth for key applications. Learn more. Emoticon to turn 30 despite Penn Jillette's objections Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of the emoticon, which means that Carnegie Melon computer science professor Scott Fahlman has been dutifully answering questions from journalists who, unlike me, did not interview "The Father of the Emoticon" back in 2007 for the 25th anniversary. Read More Apple keeps top spot in customer satisfaction Apple retained the top spot in a survey released Tuesday by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, which also found that the tablet market is spurring PC makers to improve the quality of their products. Read More Getting the most out of broadband to back up MPLS The problem with using broadband to back up branch office MPLS links is 1) you spend all that money on the pipes and most of the time they simply lie fallow, and 2) when MPLS does go down the failover process often takes so long it kills active sessions. Read More Prepare your business for digital disaster You don't have to look hard to find tales of technological disaster. The Gauss virus infiltrated thousands of Middle Eastern PCs, where it could intercept online banking credentials. Apple iPhones were revealed to be vulnerable to spoofed SMS messages. Floods all but demolished Western Digital's hard drive production facilities in Thailand. Read More
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