Network World – As the IT silos come down, tech pros need to beef up their skills to stay relevant and maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, virtualization, unified networking and big data, according to Cisco and EMC, which have teamed to offer training targeted at tech’s hottest data center disciplines. MORE: Critical milestones [...]

With the end of the public comment and response periods on LightSquared’s plan to operate a 4G LTE service near GPS frequencies, it’s now the FCC’s turn to decide how to proceed. Defiant LightSquared says FCC action would violate its rights LightSquared wants to offer cellular broadband over spectrum that’s next to the band used [...]

By: Michael PottsApril 4th, 2012 Tweet To assure critical power in many industrial and commercial facilities, medium voltage power is often switched between alternate sources, which sometimes results in transformer inrush current on phase relays and ground relays.  Where ground relay tripping occurs, personnel may solve the problem by increasing relay settings.  This increase, though, [...]

Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2012  E-mail this page    Printer-friendly page Products with “green” claims prove weak; Plus, tips on how to choose and the latest brands to be downsized Yonkers, NY — Balancing strength and softness is often the biggest challenge for toilet paper, but White Cloud 3-Ply Ultra Soft and Thick (Walmart) proved [...]

CSO – Global Payments Inc. of Atlanta, the credit card processing firm that was breached sometime earlier this year, couldn’t keep hackers out of its system, but the firm’s leaders seem determined to keep the press outside their public relations wall. Since the breach became public March 30, the company has issued a general statement [...]

When federal CIOs think about relaxing their policies for mobile workers, their concerns are not altogether different from those that keep their counterparts in the private sector up at night. To be sure, enterprise CIOs are insulated from charges of wasting taxpayer dollars if a project goes sour, and the federal government does have unique [...]

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April 03, 2012 — Network World — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cyberattacks are starting to eclipse terrorism as a threat to the country, say top officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaking before an audience of security professionals here at the GovSec Conference today. “You’ll see a greater prevalence of cyber-related offenses, including cyber-terrorism,” predicted [...]

In the government sector we are all having to face reduced budgets, reduced staffing, reduced resources, while also facing increased workloads, increased demands and an ever changing technology landscape. In the face of this new paradigm how are we going to meet these challenges and maintain our drive to  innovation and efficiencies through these incredible [...]

Six years after Computerworld first surveyed its readers about their use of Cobol, the installed code base for the 50-year old language hasn’t changed much. But the impending talent crisis appears to be hitting home in more organizations. This spring Computerworld conducted a follow up Cobol survey, which ran with our recent story, Brain Drain: [...]