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A capacity manager makes sure a company has the right amount of IT resources to support the business--not more, not less. It's their job to determine if the current IT infrastructure is being utilized optimally and, if not, what changes should be made. "It's a unique job within IT. The capacity manager is responsible for monitoring, analyzing and projecting whether the organization has sufficient computing capacity to do what it needs to do," says Dave Van De Voort, a principal at Mercer.
Some major worries have been overlooked in the IT boomer exodus
Loss of programming skills is the easiest outcome of the baby boomer exodus to address. Far more worrisome are the impending losses of mission-critical experience and organizational domain knowledge. These challenges can't be solved by replacing skills or systems.
Study: IT skills pay drops slightly overall in Q1
A new study shows that pay for IT skills fell by 0.5 percent overall during the first three months of this year, but also that some 46 skills rose in value.
Microsoft releases job training vouchers in Washington
Microsoft is offering 30,000 vouchers for free worker training classes in Washington state, at an estimated value of $3 million, the company said on Monday.
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I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
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