Finalists for the 2013 Best of Interop awards have been chosen in seven IT categories, including cloud and virtualization, networking and security. The winners will be announced next month at Interop Las Vegas.
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Best of Interop Finalists Announced
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IT Salary Survey 2013: 11 Career Insights
IT is consistently cited as one of the most-promising U.S. careers, even with the rise of offshore outsourcing. As with most professions, however, compensation is rising only modestly. The IT field still pays well, with staffers earning $ 90,000 in median total compensation and managers earning $ 120,000, the 2013 InformationWeek U.S. IT Salary Survey finds. But compensation for staffers is flat compared with last year and up only 3% for managers.
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IBM: Flash Storage Hits Tipping Point
Everybody agrees that spinning disk drives will give way to solid state alternatives, but there’s much more debate about what share of storage will eventually move to server DRAM, what share will move to flash-based storage options and just how soon disk drives will disappear.
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Calculating The True Cost Of VDI
There are a lot of reasons to go with VDI, but economics isn’t one of them; VDI is too expensive to justify on costs alone. Here’s my tally.
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Introducing the InteropNet NOC Team
InteropNet provides the IT infrastructure for Interop conference attendees and exhibitors. Here are some of the people who make it happen.
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IT Pros Leave $4K on Table In Salary Negotiations
IT pros are leaving thousands of dollars on the table when they negotiate–or fail to negotiate–salaries for new jobs, according to a survey from Dice.com.
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Ubiquiti Rolls Out 802.11ac APs on the Cheap
Ubiquiti offers an 11ac AP for under $ 300 in a bid to grab early adopters and price-conscious companies–and to entice customers from WLAN vendors such as Ruckus and Aruba Networks.
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Patch Tuesday leaves Internet Explorer zero day untouched
It’s Patch Tuesday time again. This month Microsoft has unleashed nine new security bulletins. Nine is a reasonably high number of updates, however, only two of them are rated as Critical. So, it’s actually a little more laid back than most months, but there’s still cause for concern.
There are seven security bulletins rated as Important, which affect a range of platforms and services including Active Directory, the Windows antimalware client, and the Windows Kernel. The two Critical security bulletins apply to Internet Explorer and Remote Desktop. Be prepared—most of the patches require a reboot.
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What Should A VDI Desktop Cost?
Recently I met with an organization’s IT team after they had completed the initial rollout of their virtual desktop infrastructure project. The VDI install went quite well and desktop performance was by their description “acceptable.” Although I am not convinced that the users think “acceptable” is, well, acceptable, but that is a story for another entry.
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The real reasons to blame Windows 8 for plummeting PC sales
PC sales suffered a 14 percent drop in the first quarter, the largest drop for a single quarter in the 20 years that IDC has been tracking the data. Fingers immediately began pointing at Windows 8, but the new Microsoft OS isn’t to blame—at least not in the way you might think.
Traditional PC sales are down. There’s no arguing that. However, it’s misguided to assume it’s the result of a failure on the part of Windows 8. Rather, it’s because the definition of “PC” is evolving.
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