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Green buildings make employees see red
Forget about having your own printer, coffee pot or a mini-refrigerator in your office. Heck, you can forget about having
your own office, too, because you’ll probably get assigned a modular desk in a big, open space.
What’s taking fixed-mobile convergence so long?
Fixed-mobile convergence, or FMC, has been much hyped, but has been slow to roll out because of carrier foot-dragging and
cautious customers, industry watchers say.
Entitlement management: Access control on steroids
A new set of tools, called entitlement management, provide fine-grained access control and help companies deal with compliance
and insider security threats.
Tools cure IP address-management headaches
IP address management tools aren’t sexy, but they can certainly take the tedium out of the necessary and difficult task of
tracking IP addresses and DNS names across an enterprise network.
Dashboards and the human condition
Dashboards can unlock the value of decades of IT investments by linking your ERP, business intelligence and analysis tools
to humans who can act on the information. But as the interface between systems and business decisions, dashboards have to
accommodate human behavior to add value.
Greenest data centers: What works and what doesn’t
A peek inside the nation’s greenest data centers shows that these facilities are a mix of high-tech and low-tech, innovative
and obvious ways of cutting back on electricity and creating more environmentally friendly IT operations.
Outsourcing moves closer to home
Cultural barriers, frequent staff turnover and cost concerns have Indian offshore service providers looking to Latin America,
Canada and the Philippines as alternative locations for outsourcing contracts.
Can Verizon really change its stripes?
Verizon’s decision to give customers the option of connecting to its network through outside devices is, to say the least,
a departure from its past views on open-access rules.
Nortel bolsters security, business process gear
Nortel this week unveiled new and enhanced products designed to improve security and further optimize the network for business
processes.
First large-scale 802.11n wireless LAN now operational
Morrisville State College has 720 802.11n access points deployed, the first large-scale 11n deployment. IT staff and users
are starting to see the results: faster applications, more of them, more bandwidth-hungry applications and more-reliable connections.
Open source's future: More Microsoft, bigger talent shortages
The open source industry in 2008 will be marked by more news out of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and other big IT vendors, less
start-up funding, more M&A activity, and an increasingly serious talent shortage.
Which certifications are worth your time?
For years, the key to jumpstarting a network professional’s career was getting a Cisco, Microsoft or other technical certification.
But now CIOs, IT recruiters and salary specialists say demand is waning for hardware- and software-oriented certifications.
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