Take control of your IT career

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	How to take control of your own IT career Tech staffers are migrating into new roles -- frequently with non-IT job titles -- throughout the enterprise, working on an array of projects that require tech savvy in addition to business and process knowledge, management skills and more. Where you land all depends on your proficiency with one of today's most indispensable career navigation tools -- your own customized career strategy. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC 15-Minute Guide to Smarter Backup Backup and recovery has become a fundamental part of business and an essential element of information management. This white paper identifies the three big trends that are irreversibly changing how organizations must think about backup and recovery and how to transform your company's future with smarter backup. Read now. In this Issue INSIDER Thornton A. May: Why the word 'career' has become obsolete INSIDER Land an IT job: Tips from recent hires Spotlight hot skills on your resume Paul Glen: Build relationships, and career opportunities will follow INSIDER The Grill: James T. Wilkes finds connections between beekeeping and IT INSIDER IT pay rates stagnate even as tech's importance grows Enterprise IT is on the losing end of Microsoft's CAL price hike Preston Gralla: Is your fridge an IRS snitch? Windows XP's retirement is in doubt, say some experts EMC readies flash storage for data centers with Project X HP commits to embattled Autonomy software division AMD eyes server revival with aggressive new approach WEBCAST: APC by Schneider Electric Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments Protecting your network architecture continues to be extremely critical. Distributed networking and computing spaces often times go unmanaged. Learn more about the importance of managing these distributed IT spaces including strategies for maintaining availability and energy cost savings opportunities. Learn more. INSIDER Thornton A. May: Why the word 'career' has become obsolete The iconic 'gold watch' career path, in which people stay with the same employers for their entire working lives, has become anachronistic, says Thornton A. May. Today, the most important skill is the ability to acquire new skills. Insider (registration required) Read More INSIDER Land an IT job: Tips from recent hires Four IT workers who recently found new jobs describe their hard-won success and offer a view from the street. Insider (registration required) Read More Spotlight hot skills on your resume IT workers know that soft skills are key to career advancement, but such skills are difficult to quantify. Here's how to revamp your resume to make your talents shine. Read More Paul Glen: Build relationships, and career opportunities will follow Your competitive advantage in the labor market will come from your interest in, and aptitude for, creating good experiences for the people you work with, says columnist Paul Glen. Read More INSIDER The Grill: James T. Wilkes finds connections between beekeeping and IT James T. Wilkes, chair of the Appalachian State University computer science department, mixes what he's learned about IT with his other professions: farming and beekeeping. For example, he created a Web application that helps beekeepers manage their hives. Insider (registration required) Read More INSIDER IT pay rates stagnate even as tech's importance grows Even though technology is playing an increasingly important role in the U.S. economy, IT wages remain persistently flat, analysts say. Insider (registration required) Read More WHITE PAPER: Socialtext 6 Ways to Achieve Business Goals from Social Software This practical guide shows you six different ways to achieve your business goals using social software. It will help you choose the best social software approach for your enterprise - with the right balance of risk and reward - so you can get the business results you're looking for. Read Now! Enterprise IT is on the losing end of Microsoft's CAL price hike Microsoft's recent increase in the price of its user client-access licenses (CAL) is a 'lose-lose' deal for enterprise customers but will likely yield a major revenue boost for the vendor. Read More Preston Gralla: Is your fridge an IRS snitch? Neither federal and state law nor the courts have come close to catching up with the privacy implications of so much of our data existing in a realm beyond our complete control. Read More Windows XP's retirement is in doubt, say some experts Some security researchers wonder if Microsoft will indeed retire Windows XP on April 8, 2014. Read More EMC readies flash storage for data centers with Project X In its Project X initiative, EMC is developing flash storage for use throughout data centers and is developing software to tie all of an enterprise's flash equipment together. Read More HP commits to embattled Autonomy software division Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has again affirmed the company's commitment to its embattled Autonomy software division, saying that HP's fiscal health is stronger than some may believe. Read More AMD eyes server revival with aggressive new approach To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is adopting an aggressive strategy whose goals include the introduction of new ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron line in the meantime. Read More
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