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by Kevin Fogarty

Kevin Fogarty writes about enterprise IT for ITworld.

Where are all the IT jobs? Here: Fastest-growing skills in the fastest-growing cities

Posted Jun 07, 2011 - 07:00 am

The problem with employment statistics is that they never seem to refer to the job you, individually, are looking for (or trying not to lose).
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- economy, hot skills
Forget about Google succession story

Posted Jan 21, 2011 - 12:18 pm
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- CEO, chairman
Windows 7 update breaks VMware View

Posted Feb 10, 2011 - 02:38 pm

If your company is a little more advanced than most in the user's-choice device-selection department, you might be reading this from an iPad, iPhone, Android smartphone or other non-PC computing device connected to your work computers via virtualized desktop software from Citrix Systems.
Enterprises waste time with revenge counter strikes against hackers

Posted Jun 18, 2012 - 12:41 pm

Multinational companies sick of being hacked by everyone from Anonymous hacktivists to the governments of countries in which they're trying to do business, are starting to do something other than wait and "cooperate" with law enforcement agencies that seem unable to corner most attackers.
IPv4 Crisis: Another Important Thing No One Cares About

Posted Oct 21, 2010 - 10:49 am

The home networks of IT people who do IPv4-IPv6 migrations at work may be fully swapped over before their employers are.
Avaya end-to-end virtualization solution, isn't

Posted Nov 11, 2010 - 01:39 pm

Vendor hyperbole is always over the top, but sometimes it's hard to even figure out what it says it can do, let alone what it really can.
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- Avaya, hyperbole
FBI Busts Fake Spy at Akamai

Posted Oct 12, 2010 - 06:01 pm

A well placed saboteur or spy could do some damage inside the companies that keep the Internet's secured traffic moving; the FBI spent 18 months investigating a guy they say gave copies of customer receipts to a "foreign country."
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- espionage, hacking
Tesla-Top Gear lawsuit bodes ill for green data center tech

Posted Mar 30, 2011 - 12:35 pm

"Green" technology is all the rage in data centers, where IT managers are struggling to save costs on air conditioning space and hardware while being pressed to add hardware, add power and increase performance, preferably without adding any power consumption to run computers or cool them.
U.S. power grid is a big, soft target for cyberattack, MIT study shows

Posted Dec 05, 2011 - 01:23 pm
The "malicious attack from Russian hackers that cracked security on an Illinois water utility and destroyed one of its main pumps turned out to be what
Windows 8 features: Tablet! Cloud! Apps! Smoke, Mirrors, Misdirection!!!

Posted Sep 14, 2011 - 06:30 am

For pure entertainment, for the overwhelming bliss of wonder, understanding and relieved optimism, nothing geekish can beat being in the middle of a big crowd at a huge new product introduction with all the stops pulled out, all the show-dogs and –ponies on display, bells and whistles sounding and crowd raving to overamp'd music from the days
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- gala, hype

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