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Microsoft advances management plans
Microsoft's strategy for building a management platform has changed significantly in the past five years. More..

Why You Need To Plan for Innovation Today
We all have a tendency to only look at what we're doing today, instead of stepping back and asking, "What do we need to focus on for the future?" Taking that step back is actually a step toward innovation and away from stagnation. More..

Study: Girls find few female role models in IT field
Though technology becomes more pervasive in the lives of young people each day, technology jobs aren't high on the lists of what they want to do when they grow up. Consider the 90 percent of girls between the ages of 11 and 16 who think computers and cutting edge gadgets are cool, according to a recent survey of 1,000 U.K. adolescents: Only 28 percent of those girls are considering careers in the technology industry. More..

Whistleblowers: Women experience more retaliation than men
Women in technology who wish to blow the whistle on malfeasance they witness but who fear the consequences of reporting such information have good reason to be cautious. New research shows that female whistleblowers experience more retaliation than male whistleblowers. More..

CEOs worry about change and corporate social responsibility
CEOs face major organizational changes and feel their companies are responding less well to those challenges, including new ways to take advantage of technology, according to an IBM survey. More..

Hiring the Wrong IT Staff to Achieve Your Goals?
Are you having problems with alignment? Is your IT staff unable to provide the business with the support it needs? Does it seem like your IT staff just doesn't understand the business? Perhaps they don't. More..

Making sure everything works
Conducted over three days towards the end of April, more than 100 predefined operational scenarios were carried out, covering IT systems, communications, IT security and press operations, according to Atos Origin. As the Games IT integrator, the company is responsible for designing, building and operating the whole IT infrastructure. More..

Indian workers don't want U.S. jobs, survey reports
A survey of 677 graduates of Indian Institutes of Technology shows a smaller percentage has opted to travel to the U.S. and other foreign countries for work. More..

School kids turning away from computing subjects
Both young men and women are walking away from secondary school studies that could lead to careers in IT, with young women turning away faster than their male counterparts, according to the Dean of Charles Sturt University's Faculty of Education. More..

U.S. firm fined for violations related to H-1B program
A U.S. provider of outsourcing and IT services has agreed to pay civil penalties of US$45,000 to settle allegations that it discriminated against U.S. residents when attempting to hire foreign workers holding H-1B visas, the U.S. Department of Justice announced late Thursday. More..

Assembling a 'Network A-Team'
Burton Group senior analyst Eric Siegel says reaching the Holy Grail of quick problem identification and resolution involves more people and process than technology. More..

Fund Your Network the Right Way
How would you feel if the phone company charged you for wiring your house, and then claimed to own the in-premises wiring and charged you a service fee for its use? More..

Wikinomics author Don Tapscott joins SaaS startup
Wikinomics author Don Tapscott will chair the consulting wing of a start-up software as a service (SaaS) company that he says offers a platform for Web 2.0 tools to help companies redesign their business model to encourage horizontal collaboration. More..

Salvation Army CIO uses IT to support nonprofit
Nonprofit doesn't mean low-tech at the Salvation Army. More..

Virtualization is greatest network management challenge
NetQoS and Network Instruments polled 117 Interop attendees that visited the two vendors' booths to learn which technologies pose the biggest monitoring challenges. More..

Interop start-ups take on network security, management and acceleration
Blue Spinner, FastSoft, porttracker and Solera Networks use Interop's Start-up City to showcase their products to attendees. More..

Adoption of corporate social networks remains sluggish
Technology vendors have begun selling tools that allow companies to build social networks internally for their employees. But recent research and interviews with analysts suggest that the adoption of these tools has been slow due to a lack of engagement by users and the stiff competition for their time posed by sites such as Facebook. More..

Bell Labs spin-off to launch management appliance at Interop
Change and configuration management vendor nSolutions will introduce is NOVA line of appliances at Interop Las Vegas 2008. More..

Unified communications still a mystery, says study
Unified communications might be a fashionable term, but many organizations still struggle to understand the benefits of a connected, IP-based communications infrastructure, a Butler Group study has reported. More..

Microsoft targets CA, HP with new management attack
LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft Tuesday said it plans to become a major management platform vendor to battle the likes of CA and HP and said it would extend its System Center software to encompass Linux and Unix-based machines. More..

Author kicks off Interop: 'IT does matter'
LAS VEGAS -- Interop Las Vegas kicked off today with a lecture from a college professor as the keynote address, a stark contrast to the industry luminaries who filled that slot in the past. More..

Economic downturn will increase offshoring, Gartner says
While the American IT sector has shown few signs of slowing down in recent months, a new report by Gartner still predicts that the current economic slowdown will accelerate the offshoring of IT jobs to countries such as India. More..

10 E-Mail Marketing Dos and Don'ts
E-mail marketing can help your business grow, but a misstep can cause you to lose customers for life. Avoid the pitfalls with these dos and don'ts. More..

NAC group expands its scope
TCG moves to coordinate policy enforcement based on how devices behave More..

SYS rounds out six-pack of freeware at Interop
SYS Technologies debuts that sixth in a series of network management freeware at Interop. More..