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Hitch your IT career to a rising star with DevOps certification

Hitch your IT career to a rising star with DevOps certification Savvy IT industry watchers have probably been noticing something called “DevOps” come gliding into view for a while now, striking regular pings on the scope of anyone scanning for either hot trends or spiking salaries. Even proponents of DevOps, however, sometimes struggle to define […]

Leaving IT may be your best IT career path

The best way to ensure a successful IT career in the long run may be to go off the IT reservation. That was my takeaway from the Career Without Boundaries session at the Computerworld Premier 100 conference. The panelists didn’t come right out and say that. But the IT executives on the stage all had […]

Google, Facebook promise new IPv6 services after successful trial

Google leaves IPv6 on for YouTube; Facebook adds IPv6 to developers’ site; Yahoo sees ‘minimal risk’ to IPv6 One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permanently supporting this upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol on some of […]

Logon Triggers – SQL Server 2008 R2

Logon triggers fire stored procedures in response to a LOGON event. This event is raised when a user session is established with an instance of SQL Server. Logon triggers fire after the authentication phase of logging in finishes, but before the user session is actually established. Therefore, all messages originating inside the trigger that would […]

Google Releases Stable Version of Chrome 12

Google Chrome 12 is now the stable release of Google’s web browser, bringing several improvements in security, privacy and graphics capabilities.   Best Microsoft MCTS Training – Microsoft MCITP Training at Certkingdom.com   Chrome now checks downloaded files for malware, and Google claims it has designed the feature in such a way that it doesn’t […]

Microsoft promises Windows 8 details tomorrow?

Microsoft appears to be readying a more in-depth look at its forthcoming Windows 8 platform at the Computex event in Taipei tomorrow. According to Engadget, during Microsoft’s Computex Keynote Steven Guggenheimer, corporate VP for the OEM division, said that the company will announce plans for the ‘next version’ of Windows.   Best Microsoft MCTS Training, […]

Tips for picking an IaaS provider II

However, you will need to make sure your outsourcer’s expertise matches up with your IaaS of choice. “A lot of these guys already have a cloud practice, managing at least the Amazon cloud. But the key thing is to make sure the company can demonstrate experience managing the cloud instance you’ll be using,” he cautions. […]

Tips for picking an IaaS provider

Making the leap to a public cloud infrastructure requires careful planning. As Gartner analyst Lydia Leong cautions in a recent report, the cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market “is immature, the services are all unique and evolving rapidly, and vendors must be chosen with care.”   Best Microsoft MCTS Training, Microsoft MCITP Training at […]

Google Doodle Honors 92nd Birthday of ‘Busytown’ Creator Richard Scarry

Google’s Sunday homepage doodle honors what would have been the 92nd birthday of childrens’ book author Richard Scarry. The doodle features a scene from “Busytown,” a fictional world created by Scarry, which is inhabited by well-known characters like Postman Pig, Huckle Cat, Sergeant Murphy, and Lowly Worm. Click through the main doodle, and the smaller […]

The Peculiar Origins of Tech Terms

Earlier this year, PCMag offered up a brief history of malware. While researching the story, we had a little back and forth regarding the origin of the term “computer virus.” One side had contended that the phrase first appeared in the science fiction book When HARLIE Was One. The other insisted that it was coined […]

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