The erosion of IT's middle class

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	The erosion of IT's middle class As new technologies continue to emerge in the network, the need for highly skilled IT administration resources will grow just as well. However, the advent of Software Defined Networking (SDN), cloud systems, and orchestration software means many mundane tasks will become automated. If your day is mainly made up of those mundane tasks, then you should be worried about the future of your career. Read... Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DEMO Enterprise What's trending in wearable computing and digital money? Come to DEMO Enterprise, April 3 in SF to see the best new products in wearable computing, digital money, mobile, health, internet, enterprise, big data and more. All products are handpicked by top VC experts for their innovative design and market potential. Special offer to newsletter subscribers, register and save 40%. In this Issue Hot Topics at the RSA Conference The glass ceiling replaced by enlightened self-interest Making sense of the Ubuntu licensing fiasco Report: America's 4G LTE is really slow Red Hat CEO addresses big data's big chicken-and-egg question How to save your email archive from a service provider A FICO credit score, but for your cloud Memory glitch hits Cisco's Q2 VMware jumps into mobile, but lacks network control IBM: Prototype device supports 400 Gb/s data transfer speeds WEBCAST: SAP SAP IT Transformation Forum On March 6, join us in an exclusive live event featuring Nolan Bushnell, a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, and scientist who's often cited as the father of the video game industry. This event will feature topics on laying the foundations for mobile, Big Data, and cloud applications that business teams require to stay competitive. Learn more Hot Topics at the RSA Conference It's the calm before the storm and I'm not talking about the unusual winter weather. Just a few days before the 2014 RSA Security Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. In spite of this year's controversy over the relationship between the NSA and RSA Security (the company), I expect a tremendous turnout that will likely shatter the attendance records of last year. Cybersecurity issues... Read More The glass ceiling replaced by enlightened self-interest I am happy to report that we as a society in general and the tech industry in particular have progressed to the point that we no longer make a distinction between a man or a woman being a CEO. Certainly no one thinks that one can do a better job than the other (OK there might be a few diehards out there). This is a good thing. Read More Making sense of the Ubuntu licensing fiasco I am not a lawyer. And, if I were a lawyer, I would be a terrible one. So if I've gotten any of the following incorrect please, in the name of all that is wonderful in this world of ours, let me know in the comments below. With that out of the way, let's continue. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Why Web Site Performance Is an IT Imperative A slow or inefficient Web site can have a direct impact on your business. Recently, IDG Research explored the challenges enterprises face in delivering content across multiple devices. Find out how adjusting to these challenges while meeting performance objectives has become a top concern for senior IT managers. View Now Report: America's 4G LTE is really slow Credit: OpenSignal It's hard to look at the news lately and not come to this conclusion - the internet in the U.S. just plain stinks compared to the rest of the world. Today is the most recent example. Read More Red Hat CEO addresses big data's big chicken-and-egg question Last week I wrote about Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst's thoughts on private clouds vs. public clouds. This time, I want to share his comments on another big either-or controversy, this one regarding big data. Read More How to save your email archive from a service provider Read More WHITE PAPER: Crittercism Getting Agnostic about Mobile Devices The need for flawless, high-performing mobile apps is critical, yet many organizations struggle. This paper explains how to accurately analyze performance of mobile apps, calculate the cost of app failure, and how to develop, deploy and test mobile apps so that malfunctions don't happen. Read more! A FICO credit score, but for your cloud In the early-1980s Fair, Isaac and Co. created a universal metric named the FICO Credit Score that allowed lending agencies to judge the credit-worthiness of potential debtors. Rajiv Gupta, founder of cloud security startup SkyHigh Networks, says the cloud needs the same thing. And his company's Cloud Security Dashbaord aims to be just that. Read More Memory glitch hits Cisco's Q2 Cisco's earnings for the second quarter of fiscal 2014 were impacted by a $655 million charge to fix faulty memory components in a range of products. The buggy memory products were manunfactured by a single supplier between 2005 and 2010, Cisco said during its Q2 earnings conference call this week. Read More VMware jumps into mobile, but lacks network control Last month, VMware made a big splash in the Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM) market by plunking down over $1.5 billion for AirWatch. EMM, formerly known as mobile device management (MDM), has been one of the hottest market segments in tech, primarily due to the seemingly unstoppable force know as BYOD. This acquisition comes a little over a year after Citrix purchased Zenprise to complement its mobile... Read More IBM: Prototype device supports 400 Gb/s data transfer speeds IBM researchers say they have developed a prototype analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that will quadruple the transfer speeds -- 200 - 400 Gigabits per second (Gb/s) -- of huge data dumps between clouds or data centers. IBM says the ADC could download 160 Gigabytes, the equivalent of a two-hour, 4K ultra-high definition movie or 40,000 songs, in only a few seconds. Read More
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