Even as the recession grinds on and unemployment remains high, virtualization engineers are enjoying boom-time salaries and job opportunities. But gaining your VCP VMware certification doesn't mean you're a shoo-in for the job, solution providers say. Looking for a six-figure salary and a virtual guarantee of...
SearchCIO.com recently sat down with virtualization and cloud computing expert Mark Bowker, an analyst at The Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. in Milford, Mass., to find out just how real companies' plans are for developing a private cloud. A private, or internal, cloud is a means...
The Cleveland Clinic, a not-for-profit, multispecialty academic medical center, will use radio frequency identification to track patient files. Using RFID technology from Kensington, MD.-based Infolinx, the clinic will implement a new records management program. Infolinx Web will allow Cleveland Clinic's more than 1,800 physicians and scientists to...
Think you know SaaS? There are a few things about the fast-evolving, on-demand software model that might surprise you. For starters, SaaS is becoming more flexible and more customizable than ever before. And while IT is usually stuck ironing out messy integration issues, this time...
Recession Pushes Some to Eschew Flexible Job Policies With the recession forcing businesses to cut back on workers, employees are increasingly doing all they can to hang onto their jobs and are forgoing many of the benefits that once allowed them to balance the demands of...
Ten years ago, Marc Benioff was a visionary, seeing vast potential in selling business software as a service over the Web. Today, he’s just another executive selling so-called cloud computing, the bandwagon du jour in the technology industry. Mr. Benioff, the animated chief executive of Salesforce.com, helped...
It was especially poignant as I sat in my home office and watched Twouble With Twitters. This cartoon exposed the prevailing inanity of Twitter — where people tweet about relationships, finding a parking spot, mastering some new techno-gadget — before some outsider tells them all...
Wisconsin Energy Corp. CEO Gale Klappa told CNBC’s Jim Cramer this afternoon that he believes it will be another 10 to 12 years before technology to capture carbon from old coal-fired power plants will be available on a widespread scale. Cramer invited Klappa on his "Mad...
As the US newspaper industry’s future is gripped by uncertainty with the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News publishing its final print edition on February 27th and the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer closing its print edition Monday, the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)...
Wisconsin companies are employing a small army of lobbyists to help them snag a piece of the massive economic stimulus package. Ministry Health Care, which operates clinics and hospitals throughout Wisconsin, hired a team of Washington lobbyists specializing in health care policy late last year as...