Year: 2006
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How to Get—and Keep—Top IT Talent
Categories: News and TrendsAnalysis: As baby boomers prepare to retire, companies are scrambling to fill the gaping hole they will leave in the workplace. The issue is particularly important in IT, which is already battling a skills shortage. In the coming years, talent recruitment and retention will be a top priority. So what are you doing about it… Read more
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Nokia Empowers Partners with New Channel Program
Categories: News and TrendsNokia on Oct. 9 unveiled its Nokia for Business Channel Program, designed to encourage cross-track sales of the mobile communications developers’ array of mobility, security and voice solutions. Under the program, Nokia’s group of about 1,000 partners are encouraged to participate in multiple technology tracks, said John Mason, vice president of global channels and operations,… Read more
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Salesforce.com to Debut New SAAS Development Platform
Categories: News and TrendsIt aint AppExchange 2.0. It’s Apex 1.0. And it very much has the potential to change the way on-demand applications are built and deployed. Salesforce.com will announce Apex, a new Java-based application development language and platform on Oct. 9 at its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The company has essentially taken its internal development… Read more
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OpenDNS Fills the PhishTank
Categories: News and TrendsCan a small startup in San Francisco play a big role in the fight against the phishing scourge? OpenDNS, a 10-employee company with technological expertise in the domain-name-resolution field, is betting that a mix of social networking, Web services and user-generated submissions can power a valuable, freely available anti-phishing database. Phishing, which has emerged as… Read more
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BladeLogic Looks to Unify the Data Center
Categories: News and TrendsBladeLogic is looking to bring greater integration of management software in the data center. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Oct. 9 in Orlando, Fla., the company is unveiling its BladeLogic Orchestration Manager, which is designed to work as the bond that ties the disparate software products from different vendors that many customers run in their data… Read more
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Peering Into the Wireless World
Categories: News and TrendsEnterprises that need a clearer view of their wireless environments are getting help from Cisco Systems and Cognio. The two companies are teaming to bring new RF (radio frequency) monitoring capabilities to Cisco’s WCS (Wireless Control System) by integrating Cognio’s Spectrum Expert. The move will give administrators a way to view their RF environment as… Read more