"BMW, with over 85,000 employees worldwide, deployed Windows 7 to 500 employees in 2009 and expects to increase that to 5000 users by October 2010, with a view to have all 85,000 employees using Windows 7 by late 2011.
Being an early adopter and migrating that many people from eight-year-old Windows XP to Windows 7 is a monumental task, but one that many enterprises now face. At BMW, Bernhard Huber is taking a deliberate and systematic approach to Windows 7 deployments, rolling it out in phases.
IT executive Bernhard Huber, offers five tips below for deploying Windows 7 within your organisation:
Friday, January 15, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Four Options for Free Storage in the Cloud
Here Are Four Options for Free Storage in the Cloud:
DropBox
Google's DropBox offers 2GB of free online storage. Other options include 50GB for $9.99 per month, or 100GB for $19.99 per month. When put your files in a DropBox folder in one computer, they're uploaded to the site's secure servers. Google Docs has a 250MB file size limit, but DropBox has no such limitation. You can access your files from other computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux) or mobile devices that run DropBox too.
Box.Net
Targeted at the corporate crowd, Box.Net is a little less generous in the storage department.
The site's free option provides 1GB of online storage with a 25MB file-size limit. For $10 per month, you get 5GB of storage and a 1GB file size limit. The $15 per month plan includes 10GB of storage, with the same 1-gig file cutoff. Pricier plans for enterprise customers (with unlimited storage) are available too.
Twitter Trials New Business Feature
Twitter Trials New Business Feature
Twitter has announced a trial of a new functionality aimed specifically at business users, indicating a shift toward commercialising the service.
The micro-blogging platform is currently beta testing the new ‘Contributors’ feature, which allows business users to manage how its employees are identified under their Twitter account.
More than one tweep can tweet from a single twitter account. Or in English, multiple users are now able to be credited in the by-line, freeing up the precious 140 character limit and making business to consumer communication more personal.
Pump Up Your Resume - Get IT Certified!
Despite the threat of recession, or perhaps because of it, certifications are proving once again to be a great way for IT professionals to ensure that their resume gets a serious look.
With the US economy slipping into the grip of a recession, there has been a significant drop in number of new job opportunities in the IT sector. Organizations prefer to outsource their non-core IT related jobs to low-cost destinations. Nonetheless, there is still a healthy demand for on-site IT professionals in the states, as organizations look for qualified specialists who are experts in their fields.
Certified professionals are often a preferred choice, as they have proven themselves to be particularly effective in the certified skill set. Certifications are proving once again to be a great way for IT professionals to ensure that their resume gets a serious look.
Pump Up Your Resume - Get IT Certified!
With the US economy slipping into the grip of a recession, there has been a significant drop in number of new job opportunities in the IT sector. Organizations prefer to outsource their non-core IT related jobs to low-cost destinations. Nonetheless, there is still a healthy demand for on-site IT professionals in the states, as organizations look for qualified specialists who are experts in their fields.
Certified professionals are often a preferred choice, as they have proven themselves to be particularly effective in the certified skill set. Certifications are proving once again to be a great way for IT professionals to ensure that their resume gets a serious look.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
4 Strategies To Upskill Your IT Certfication in a Down Economy
4 Strategies To Upskill in a Down Economy
"1. Determine the most relevant courses & directions for upgrading skills in the current situation. Are they relevant right now?
As networks become more sophisticated and increasingly complex, the skills requirements for network professionals have rapidly accelerated and evolved. Networks have grown from basic transport systems for data to a business-critical application and services delivery platform.
To gain a better understanding about how companies can keep pace with new tools, converging technologies and expanding infrastructure, Cisco commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a global survey of 1,500 IT hiring managers across ten countries, including Russia. The results showed that in today's constantly shifting network environment, there is an immediate need to provide dedicated IT professionals with network education, self-assessment tools, and training and certification programs.
The Forrester research cited the most critical new job skills to support the functionality of the network to be wireless, voice, security, and remote office work. These specific areas demand the most urgent attention because innovation in networking tools is outpacing the skills required to implement them and manage them.
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