A CCNP Cisco Certified Network Professional certification is a good way to prep for a career in IT management The CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) title is one of a number of other certification programs offered by the telecom giant, Cisco. According to CISCO, this is what the CCNP certification seeks to achieve: “The CCNP [...]
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Get your MCITP certification before 2014… Did you know that MCITP certifications are going to be phased out over the course of the next couple of years? Microsoft is certainly one of the most visible and prolific corporations on the planet; this is why it’s never a bad idea to have some MS-specific certifications. [...]
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Can the Google AdWords Certification program really help improve your online marketing skills? In a word, yes…. While there tends to be a great number of smaller businesses that routinely use AdWords to help reach customers, rest assured, the bigger institutions are interested as well. In fact, many large companies are having their marketing [...]
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An MCSE certification allows IT professionals to better approach Cloud transitions Depending on who you are, the acronym ‘MCSE’ might mean two entirely different things. In other words, the MCSE certification of the 90’s is completely different from the one we have today (2012). So, before we explore the most recent version, let’s clear [...]
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What’s the difference between Enterprise Architecture & SOA? The growing importance of Enterprise Architecture has cast a new light of scrutiny on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). Businesses are increasingly finding themselves utilizing both approaches to organization and planning these days, often at the same time. Naturally, given that EA and SOA are so closely [...]
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What function does Enterprise Architecture play for most businesses? If you look at any problem or process from a vantage point (big picture), it’s often possible to arrive at solutions which are able to make things run much more smoothly and efficiently. When it comes to business strategy, Enterprise Architecture is something that’s created [...]
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Are we about to see a Gamification explosion? Some really big organizations are tapping into what Gamification has to offer. We’re not just talking about moves made to draw in customers; Gamification is actively being used to engage employees as well. In addition to mammoth companies like Samsung, there are a number of very large [...]
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The 4 types of Enterprise Architecture Wherever there is a business, some form of Enterprise Architecture exists. Sure, it might not be a formal type of idealized EA, but it is likely trying to fulfill that same role. This is because all businesses / enterprises require organization and careful planning in order to execute [...]
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QR Codes, coming to a business near you? …That is of course, if they’re not already there It was just last month (September 2012) that a bill was approved in NYC that required all licensed / inspected organizations and businesses to display a corresponding QR code. The idea behind this ruling is that anyone can [...]
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Is BIG data the next big “boom” sector in IT? It has been said (quite accurately in fact), that “If you want to see what future changes are coming your way, you need only look to Wall Street”. This doesn’t imply that technologies are being built there, of course, but that it is these [...]
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Gamification and the Green movement There’s been a lot of talk and attention paid to the direction the Green movement has recently taken. Simply put, more companies are focusing on their carbon footprint and making plans for the upcoming carbon credits system. The problem it seems is not in getting people (and employees) to [...]
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Is managing BIG data becoming a major career in and of itself? Most Cloud Computing operations today require individuals who specialize in BIG data management The biggest byproduct of the last several years of technological development has been the proliferation of huge amounts of data. In other words, as continue to chart new territories in [...]
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BIG data might offer BIG benefits to some businesses Here’s a recent statistic to contemplate; around 75%-80% of all data accumulated by businesses is currently “unstructured”. What does this mean? Basically, it means that most businesses are sitting on a treasure trove of data which they are not able to put into good use. [...]
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The Cloud tradeoff: Ownership vs. Leasing (Increased Costs vs. Reduced Costs) While it does seem to endorse complete non-ownership of software, storage and hardware, cloud computing gives us tremendous savings in return, along with some other perks One of the most hyped (and often pointed out) topics among those who might be wary of cloud [...]
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Recent Gartner report shows demand for public cloud computing services rising Whether or not it’s Windows Azure, Amazon EC2, or something like Google’s AppEngine we’re talking about, one thing is certain – public cloud services are highly sought-after right now. Of course the next question is, why not? After all, there are some very [...]
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Unisys and Interoute are bringing us a new type of IaaS Some things are just destined to be together because they work so well together, take ice cream and cake for example. This is the kind of situation that exists between Interoute and Unisys. Interoute’s IaaS (also called “virtual data centre”) is a unique [...]
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Smaller businesses now have access to High Performance Computing, thanks to the Cloud We seem to be moving forward into a new age. Access to what should be considered “upper-level technology” is becoming possible for virtually any size business. In the past, being able to leverage something like high performance computing (HPC) meant that [...]
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What is the difference between private and hybrid IaaS? When you think IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), you’re really thinking about a very specific type of private cloud computing. In your typical IaaS offering for businesses vendors are actually providing their clients with the hardware (and/or software) required to run an entire IT operation. What makes this [...]
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What are some of the long-term benefits that Cloud Computing brings with it? While a move to cloud computing offers both short and long-term benefits, it is the prospect of receiving lasting paybacks which attracts most businesses. Just what kind of perks are we talking about here? Economics is almost always at the heart [...]
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Cloud Computing’s cumulative effect on outsourcing Depending on who you talk to, Cloud Computing is either enabling current outsourcing operations or ensuring that they will soon become a thing of the past. The truth is, the cloud is having an effect on outsourcing, but only in a limited capacity (with big upward trends being [...]
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