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Who will train the next enterprise architects?

Posted November 18, 2010 - 2:18 pm

Bringing the next generation of enterprise architects up to speed won't be an easy task. While most experts agree that the job is a critical one, given the corporate emphasis building business infrastructure in the most technically efficient way, training these future experts has proven difficult.
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Going to IPv6 isn't going to be easy

Posted August 3, 2010 - 7:54 pm

Because, not only are you probably not ready, neither is your network hardware.
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Why You Might Need a Network Print Server

Posted January 8, 2010 - 6:00 pm

Print servers, a networked device that directs print jobs to non-networked printers, used to be big deals. Early printers didn't have network support built in, so print servers fooled the printers into thinking they were connected to a single computer with an RS-232 or Centronics parallel printer cable (look those up in the archives, kids).
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The Limits of Cellular Data

Posted December 29, 2009 - 1:52 pm

Sometimes I think I just don't get some of the major business models. Here's how I see the model the major cellular phone/mobile data carriers in the U.S. are using: You develop a service; you heavily advertise the service; you accept customers for the service; you punish (and publicly scold) customers who actually use the service.
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A Day without Blackberry Email

Posted December 17, 2009 - 11:57 am

Welcome to Thursday -- and news that Blackberry email service is down. According to the folks at CrackBerry.com, it's been out since around 3:00 am EST, and is hitting users on all cellular carriers.
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Cellular Network Outage Raises Carrier Questions

Posted December 15, 2009 - 2:13 pm

Business IT hates single points of failure. Hate's 'em. With good reason, too, since a single point of failure means that some significant portion of your operation is at the mercy of a single component or vendor. One of the most common and critical "single point of failure" locations is the provider for your wireless network.
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Effective Technical Interviews

Posted September 20, 2009 - 5:46 pm

Most information technology job interviews involve a phone interview, technical interview and sometimes a personal interview. The phone interview is an introduction with the purpose of determining if there is a preliminary match.
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Microsoft says turn off Windows feature to protect Windows

Posted September 20, 2009 - 4:01 pm

If you can't fix it, and Microsoft can't, rip it out is Microsoft's advice for Windows' SMB2 bug.
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Small-Business Network Security 101

Posted July 1, 2009 - 2:42 pm
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SlingBox iPhone fiasco shows AT&T's network strains

Posted May 13, 2009 - 2:47 pm

The bandwidth paradox is revealed!
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How do you encode hundreds of data points into one single graph? Use Sparklines.

Posted November 30, 2008 - 5:13 pm

Have you tried to visualize your traffic flows? Did you have the problem that your graphs got really cluttered? Did you find a way around that problem? Did you filter data? Did you aggregate multiple nodes into one?
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Active Directory mistake: Moving domain controller objects into a child OU of the domain controller is unsupported

Posted May 19, 2008 - 12:52 pm

Learn about this and other classic Active Directory mistakes
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