Lynn Haber

Microsoft this fall is introducing a Master-level series of certifications. While not for everyone, the advanced training will provide an additional filter for employers looking to hire specific technical expertise. Three master certifications programs – Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007; Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft SQL Server 2008; and, Microsoft Certified Master: Windows Server […]

When you get right down to the nuts and bolts of today’s IT job market, technical skills alone aren’t enough. Employers want IT professionals with equal parts business savvy and technology expertise. In short, differentiate yourself by understanding both the business your company is in and the customer it serves. The days of the IT […]

Any IT professional who’s missed the buzz about virtualization might as well keep his head in the sand. For the rest of the IT community it’s clear that talk about enterprise server virtualization adoption isn’t a matter of “if,” but “when.” So the question is whether certification in virtualization technology is a must-have. With vendors […]

Is more better? When it comes to network technology certifications, industry experts say yes. With an increasing skills gap in IT in general, and networking in particular, individuals who distinguish themselves with specialized training will be at an advantage in the job market — where networking continues to be the hottest IT job category for […]

Located in the heart of hurricane territory, the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA) has little tolerance for downtime. That’s why the organization whose business is dealing with life and death runs Neverfail for Microsoft Exchange, a high availability and disaster recovery product for e-mail. One of 50 federally designated organ procurement organizations in the country, […]

Presentations, road shows, newsletters, emails, technology fairs, posters…it’s the way to channel a marketing campaign, even one within the IT department. However, while IT marketing is something all businesses need to do to communicate with their business users, few companies have a strategy in place for marketing IT, according to Forrester Research. Defined as, “the […]

Just two to three years ago, many IT professionals were happy to have a job. Now, with improvements in the economy, IT hiring is up and IT professionals have leeway to opt for jobs that make them happy. This market shift, according to Robert Half Technology (RHT), is forcing businesses to devise retention strategies to […]

When it comes to wireless network (WLAN) deployments in the enterprise, it’s not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’. And, when it comes to WLAN management, it’s, definitely, not a question of ‘if’ but ‘who’? According to Robert Half Technology, one of the most in demand technical skills within IT departments is wireless network management. […]

Garnering 60 percent more votes than its closest competitor, OpTier Ltd.’s CoreFirst 1.4 product captured first place in the Network and Systems Management category of the Datamation Product of the Year 2006 awards. Citrix Presentation Server from Citrix Systems finished a distant second, while still collecting three times more votes than third-place finisher, NSI Software […]

At Stanford University’s Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME), running computational clusters and massively parallel programs for sponsored research demands equally high performance storage. So when the existing network file system (NFS) servers couldn’t live up to the task, the educational facility turned to storage provider Panasas Inc. A product search that began early […]