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The Best IT Resume Tips of 2014
The Best IT Resume Tips of 2014Over the last year, our resume experts and career consultants have helped numerous IT professionals put their best foot forward. Here's a quick look at some of the top resume tips from 2014's IT Resume Makeover series.For a deeper dive on resume tips with expert commentary, please read, IT Resume Makeover: Top 11 Resume Tips From 2014.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Microsoft introduces digital gift cards for Windows Phone
Microsoft has joined the parade of e-commerce mobile apps that allow users to make purchases directly from their phone, introducing a new Windows Phone app for giving the gift of Microsoft.Digital Gift Cards for Windows Phone is an app that makes it possible to buy and share gift cards with your Windows Phone, but the purchases aren't limited to WP. With its whopping 3% market share, it probably wouldn't reach many people if it was. The app also offers apps, games, movies and music from Xbox and Windows stores.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
FIRST LOOK: Firefox 34
Why, Hello thereThe fact that modern browsers update silently and often occasionally takes some of the savor out of a new release. Rapid releases mean new features are deployed in a dribble, rather than in bursts. With Firefox 34, however, Mozilla has bucked the trend, giving us a swath of new features to enjoy all at once. Have a look.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Imagine traveling in an airliner without access to any of your personal electronic devices
The reason you're being asked to imagine the horror of air travel with no electronics is that counterterrorism officials here and abroad are reportedly considering just such a restriction in response to heightened concerns about bombs in carry-on luggage.That's on top of considering a ban on carry-on luggage.From an NPR story: Another possible remedy: banning electronic devices from the passenger cabin. Officials are discussing whether to require that electronics such as cellphones, iPads and computers be placed in the cargo hold with checked baggage, which goes through a much more rigorous screening process. Detecting a bomb, if there is one, would be more likely.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Iranian hackers compromised airlines, airports, critical infrastructure companies
For the past two years, a team of Iranian hackers has compromised computers and networks belonging to over 50 organizations from 16 countries, including airlines, defense contractors, universities, military installations, hospitals, airports, telecommunications firms, government agencies, and energy and gas companies.The attacks have collectively been dubbed Operation Cleaver after a string found in various malware tools used by the hacker group, which is believed to operate primarily out of Tehran."We discovered over 50 victims in our investigation, distributed around the globe," said researchers from IT security firm Cylance in an extensive report released Tuesday. "Ten of these victims are headquartered in the US and include a major airline, a medical university, an energy company specializing in natural gas production, an automobile manufacturer, a large defense contractor, and a major military installation."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Report: Startup promises to catch 100% of network attacks with unique detection technology
Startup TrustPipe is announcing a security platform that categorizes network-based attacks and blocks them. The company claims that in two years of testing the software has never let attackers compromise the systems it has been protecting. As it emerges from three years of stealth mode TrustPipe is announcing – perhaps surprisingly – that its first version, called Trust XP, is written specifically for Windows XP, an operating system Microsoft stopped supporting last spring. But XP is still in use in countless devices – particularly point-of-sale (POS) machines – as well as millions of PCs around the world, especially in China. Trust XP has the potential to address security concerns about these systems and keep them in service longer.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
IO splits in two, solving an identity crisis
IO Data Centers is splitting into two companies as a way to attract investors and resolve a conflict that may have been holding back its business.IO has two main businesses today. One part sells collocation services from a network of data centers it operates. The other sells modular hardware and data center infrastructure management software that other companies use in their own data centers.Going forward, IO will focus on selling the collocation services, while a new company it's forming, called BaseLayer, will sell the modular hardware and DCIM products, said George Slessman, CEO and cofounder of IO, in an interview.IO has also scuppered plans for a public offering that it had been planning earlier this year, he said. He believes splitting the company in two will make it more attractive to investors and allow it to thrive as a private company.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Network slowdowns are the biggest issue for IT, survey shows
The single most common issue faced by the IT pros surveyed recently by Kelton Research is network slowdowns or outages, which outstripped application performance problems, availability and even the dreaded "unanticipated change request." The study, commissioned by IT performance analysis vendor TeamQuest, tracked the opinions of more than 400 IT management professionals who work at companies with 1,000 or more employees. The findings, which were released today, unsurprisingly centered on the importance of analytics for the data center and the hazards posed by a lack of oversight and IT efficiency. +ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Cheapest tablets pose biggest security risks | BYOD is saving serious money for IT +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Quick look: NASA Orion's critical test mission
The missionOrion is the first spacecraft built for astronauts destined for deep space since the Apollo missions and ultimately it is destined for deep space travel -- but this week the spaceship went out for a short jaunt outside Earth. NASA says Orion's unmanned test flight – slated for launch Thursday, is intended to test many of the riskiest elements of leaving Earth and returning home in the spacecraft including the jettison of the launch abort system; the separation of the Orion crew module from its service module ahead of its reentry though Earth's atmosphere; the heat shield, which will experience temperatures near 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit and how Orion's computers handle the radiation from the Van Allen Belt.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
How to get the most out of your IT talent
As the spotlight on cost reduction has dimmed, IT has picked up plenty of new directives: to deliver business agility, drive innovation, and increase its value to the business, to name a few. Yet at the same time, IT remains responsible for all the tactical and operational activities it has always performed, such as keeping systems running, delivering new capabilities, and securing intellectual property and corporate data.For CIOs and IT leaders, the management challenge is how to help IT employees break the tactical habit and use their strategic skills more effectively. We asked for advice from three tech professionals with different perspectives on IT talent. Their expertise can help IT leaders who want their teams to work smarter and be more engaged. Some of the tactics can be adopted without a lot of investment, while others require outside help or more significant cultural overhauls.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
SDN tools increase WAN efficiency
Configuring, maintaining and changing WAN infrastructure can be a nightmare given the distributed nature of the beast and all the remote touch points, but emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) tools promise to make these operations more efficient. Usually touted as a data center tool, SDN can be used to automate and manage WAN operations, says Zeus Kerravala, principal of ZK Research. WAN issues are hard to address because of the dispersed nature of the resources, he says. "There's no perfect way of making changes to the WAN," but "SDN brings automation and orchestration from a centralized location and allows you to react faster."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
How UPS uses analytics to drive down costs (and no, it doesn't call it big data)
When you have an organization the size of UPS – with 99,000 vehicles and 424,000 employees – every single little bit of efficiency that can be squeezed out of daily operations translates into a big deal. UPS has been using analytics to do just that for a long time now, and keeps getting better and better at it. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with UPS Senior Director of Process Management Jack Levis for an update on their latest achievements. How does UPS use analytics to optimize its operations? Let me take you back 15 years ago and then work our way back to today, and then I'll give you a glimpse into the future. Also, to frame the discussion, let's think of analytics in three forms: descriptive analytics says, "Where am I today?"; predictive analytics says, "With my current trajectory, where will I be headed tomorrow?"; and then at the highest level you have prescriptive analytics, and that's where you say, "Where should I be?"To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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