| 11 Hot (IT) Skills for 2011 |
Mentora Note: No surprise that Application Development remains on top. See where you stack up. |
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Do you have the IT skills expected to be most in demand for 2011? After months of staff cuts or hiring freezes, many U.S. companies are planning to hire IT employees. In fact, 23% of the respondents to Computerworld's annual Forecast survey said they plan |
| to increase staff size in the next 12 months. Find out the top 11 skills that are the most sought after by IT hiring managers. |
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| Free Webcast: Six Critical Steps to Performance Testing Your Virtualized Environment |
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If your company is implementing server virtualization to improve operational efficiency and it’s your job to evaluate performance of those virtual applications, this session is for you. Mentora’s experience testing clients’ virtualized environments has uncovered some |
| lessons that will save you time and frustration. This webinar covers the key differences between virtualization technologies, how virtual workloads should be modeled, key performance bottlenecks of virtualized systems and how you need to adapt your testing techniques.
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| The US Has the Most Infected Computers in the World |
Mentora Note: With the security landscape growing more demanding, Mentora’s Security Advisory Services can help IT teams overcome a host of security challenges. |
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Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report presents security problems and insights as well as solutions and recommendations that have been gleaned from the company’s Security Engineering Center, Security Response Center, and Malware Protection Center for |
| the first half of this year. The bottom line is that the environments that IT teams need to protect are getting more and more infected – especially in the US. Here are the numbers: out of 600 million PCs scanned globally, more than 11 million PCs in Q1 and 9.6 million in Q2 were found to be infected. |
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| Cloud Computing Survey 2010: KPMG |
Mentora Note We’re seeing a growing interest in “private cloud,” which offers some of the benefits of cloud yet mitigates some of the risks. That which we can understand, we can manage. |
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In this article, global consulting firm KPMG offers a down-to-earth analysis of the relevance of cloud based on the views of 125 IT Managers with experience using it. KPMG gets to the bottom of the real benefits of cloud computing and concludes that cloud is here to |
| stay, yet its shortcomings are becoming more widely understood. |
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