Network Management News
There's an app for that: Avoiding the ugliest business problems
Kindergarten rules for living well can get you in trouble in the corporate world. Now, there is an app for business complications of the worst type.
Struggling companies turn to business-savvy IT pros to boost the bottom line
Economic woes have pushed companies of all sizes to shake up data center hiring, development and other processes to better align IT and business...
The Grill: James Turnbull driving change in healthcare IT
Jim Turnbull, CIO at University of Utah Health Care, says mobile technology as the next big opportunity for getting patients more involved in...
How to nab a data scientist job
How exactly do you make it to the data scientist big leagues? As it turns out, there is no one right path. Instead, it's largely a scramble out...
Career Watch: A little less stress for IT workers?
A survey finds that stress remains high, but it's down significantly from last year.
How to keep your network in tip-top health
If your network has between 1,000 and10,000 devices and computers, you have a midsized network. Your servers, connections and other resources suffer...
CIOs Struggle with the Great Talent Hunt
Finding IT pros with business skills has always been a bear. So award-winning CIOs are taking radical steps to train, recruit or grow the hybrid...
A10 airs Thunder line of ADCs, along with more DDoS protection
A10 Networks this morning announced a new line of application delivery controllers -- distinct from the existing AX series -- dubbed "Thunder,"...
Just How Close Is Apple's Tim Cook to Being Fired?
Apple CEO Tim Cook needs to show investors where the company's future growth is coming from. If he fails this fall, then he might be in big...
Wanted: IT staffers with vertical industry chops
Fast-changing business processes, tight deadlines, customization demands and ever-growing regulations are complicating day-to-day operations....
The Grill: Laura Pettit Rusick
Working as an interim 'retained' CIO for multiple clients, Laura Pettit Rusick leads IT departments at various small and midsize companies,...
IT's new assignment: Generate revenue
As tech infiltrates every corner of the business, it's only natural that some IT departments are producing revenue-generating products and...
Electrical engineers see sharp uptick in Q1 jobless rate
The unemployment rate for people at the heart of many tech innovations -- electrical engineers -- rose sharply in the first quarter of this year for...
Career Watch: Computer science enrollment on rise
Enrollment shot up nearly 30% last year.
U.S. firms say H-1B restrictions may help them
IT support services firm Caleris has this message on its homepage, "Outsource to Iowa. Not India," against a picture of a corn field and...
Virtual Instruments: Avoiding "The Abyss", trouncing Brocade and not hiding behind SDN
Virtual Instruments, the nearly 5-year-old infrastructure performance management software and hardware maker, is one of those companies that might...
The Grill: Chris Curran on 'The Year of the CIO'
PricewaterhouseCoopers principal Chris Curran says CIOs must be ready to harness the power of a slew of technologies if they want to say competitive....
How to set up public Wi-Fi at your business
Offering wireless Internet access for guests can open new doors for your business. For a cafe or restaurant, customers are more likely to stay...
Puppet or Chef: The configuration management dilemma
Puppet is model-driven, Ruby is procedural, and both are large, messy, open source ecosystems plagued with pitfalls
Sandberg's book prompts discussion on dearth of women in IT
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's belief that the women's revolution has 'stalled' and that 'men still run the world' may hold...