It’s Not Just About Tech Knowledge for IT Pros
Of course it’s important for IT pros to have top-notch technical skills and to stay on top of the ever-changing trends in the space, but there’s more to the job than pure knowledge. You have to sport some people savvy too and too often that’s where you fall short. If you’re wondering what kind of skills you might need, you might start with the list the Mary Shacklett posted on TechRepublic recently, what she calls a list of essential soft skills. If you read the list, you’ll see things like having political smarts, knowing how to conduct yourself at a meetng...
read moreSurvey Finds Organizations Struggle to Harness Big Data
While organizations clearly see the value of big data, many are struggling to get a grip on the tools that will help them get at the information they know is there — so says a new report from AIIM called Big Data – extracting value from your digital landfill. The report found that Big Data as a trend is very real. In fact, when asked when they plan to make big data tool investments, more than half of respondents reported within three years with 10 percent reporting in the next 12 months. More than 5 percent have already started. How they plan to go about it though turns out to...
read moreIT Pros Should Have Remote Data Center Access
When we first started discussing the cloud in the 2008 timeframe, many IT pros mocked it, but today the cloud along with mobile is helping them do their jobs even when they can’t be in the office. In fact, a recent post on Infoworld showed off the favorite iOS and Android apps of IT pros. The slide show is chock full of remote monitoring tools, secure file access and utilities galore that let you communicate and work securely from your mobile device. It’s the kind of thing that could help you out when you’re at a conference and you need to stay in touch with the data center...
read moreWhy APM is Crucial for Cloud-Based Environments
For IT pros, the incessant chatter regarding cloud and distributed environments is nothing new. What we’ve been seeing lately (especially for those who read this blog regularly) is a transition from conceptual, nebulous, marketing driven cloud to cloud in action. Organizations are now ready to make the leap to distributed environments and are expecting their IT teams, as always, to handle the change without interruption. A recent report discusses the framework top performers are using. Top performers in this area follow a PACE (Pressures, Actions, Capabilities, Enablers) framework. They...
read moreAmazon Proves Cloud Competition Good for IT
Last week Amazon Web Services announced that it was dropping its prices. According to a post on ZDNet, this was the 19th time in 6 years that Amazon agreed to drop its prices and it’s another case of the price of technology services going down — a trend that has to make any cash-strapped IT executive smile. It’s probably a big contributing factor as well as to why Amazon is the number one cloud service provider in the world. How big? Very big. According to a post on GigaOm, analyst Huan Liu from Accenture estimates that the Amazon Elastic Cloud service encompasses an...
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