Preparing for a layoff
Recession or not, it's always a good idea to plan ahead for potential career derailments before they happen. Preparing for a layoff can help ensure you have enough money saved to live on while you're unemployed, give you an advantage in finding a new job and minimize the stress involved in this painful situation. Here are steps you can take to help keep a layoff from hitting you too hard.
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IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage tracker says that the storage software market is down for the first time in five years. the market was worth $2.8 billion, according to the study, which is 5.2 percent less than the year-ago quarter.
Interop soldiers on in face of bad economy, swine flu
Interop Las Vegas faces challenges because of restricted IT budgets nationwide, the poor economy and the unpredictable impact of a swine flu epidemic, but the show is forging ahead with new programs including a segment dedicated to cloud computing.
5 IT essentials: A recession-proof priority list
Amidst all the talk about managing costs, doing more with less, layoffs, and cutbacks, IT managers find themselves paring things down to the essentials. Here, IT managers share the things their departments can't do without. (And IT professionals share the things they'd be happy to stop doing ... now!)
Facebook + YouTube at Work: Sharper Employees?
Workers quietly rejoice when stories like this one from Reuters hit the newswires: "Facebook, YouTube at work make better employees: study." It excuses their WILB-ing, or "workplace Internet leisure browsing," and may even assuage some of the guilt they feel after taking their fourth "Which Osbourne are you?" quiz.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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