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Project Management Approach to Server Consolidation/Virtualization: A lot is been written about virtualization and server consolidation theses days. In order to have a successful virtualization, it is important that one has a clear plan of what he or she is trying to achieve. This is definitely one of those projects where one learns as they go....; Tags: Project Management Institute, Server, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Virtualization, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-11-01
Just-in-Time Training - Using a Model of Project Results Versus Team Enablers to Identify Post-PMP Training: For some time, the authors' have been developing what they call a two-dimensional model for measuring project performance and project management training. The model was initiated as a quality management tool and has evolved through the recent activity regarding Project Maturity Models to the current stage of predicting project outcomes...; Tags: Team, Quality Management, Project Management Institute, JIT, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Quality, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Business Operations; White papers 2005-03-19
Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3): Knowledge Foundation: The Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3) falls naturally within the sequence of Standards published by the Project Management Institute PMI. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK Guide has become the de facto Standard for managing individual projects and is the reference of choice for the...; Tags: Knowledge, Project Management Institute, OPM3, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management; White papers 2004-02-02
A Comparison of Academic and Government Information Security Curriculum Standards: This paper compares the ISECON model curriculum approach and topic areas to the National Security Agency's most common standard for information assurance certification - the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Instruction NSTISSI No. 4011. Comparing these two standards provides a unique vantage point to better examine the merits...; Tags: Information Security, Project Management Institute, Standards, Government, Quality, Security, Business Operations; White papers 2003-12-27
Project Management Institute's Central Virginia Chapter Relies on eProject to Coordinate Symposium: The Project Management Institute's Central Virginia Chapter (PMI-CVC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the continuous professional development of project managers. A successfully executed project was an absolute requirement for the PMI-CVC. They had never attempted to coordinate a disparate team like this before. eProject was found to be very...; Tags: eProject Inc., Project Management Institute, Team Management, Workforce Management, Management, Human Resources; Case studies

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My Awesome IT Job: Senior IT Manager, Cisco: Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...; Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Deb Perelman; Blog posts 2008-09-05
Video: Google Apps adoption rates up: At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun's OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Video, Cloud Computing, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-05
VMworld is bringing out the vendors: Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...; Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-09-05
Martin jabs back at Comcast over suit: FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin responded to Comcast's lawsuit challenging the agency's authority to sanction the company. "Given Comcast's past failure to disclose its network management practices to its customers, it is important Comcast respond to the many still-unanswered questions about its new management techniques," Martin...; Tags: Comcast Corp., Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Networking, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi: Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum WiFi that will eventually cover the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area. The company says that its wireless networking equipment now...; Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet: The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...; Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Google Apps adoption rates up: At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun’s OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Cloud Computing, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Microsoft Office; Videos 2008-09-04
Video: Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome: At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, touts interface features for the company's Chrome browser. He also does a performance benchmark test comparing the new browser to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. More Office 2.0 coverage: Google's...; Tags: Google Inc., Video, Web Browser, Conference, Office 2.0, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome: At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, touts interface features for the company's Chrome browser. He also does a performance benchmark test comparing the new browser to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.; Tags: Google Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Chrome, Internet Explorer; Videos 2008-09-04
Comcast challenges FCC authority: I don't have time to review this right now, but I wanted to get it up ASAP. Comcast is appealing the FCC decision on network management, even though it plans to comply. Here's the message I received: In connection with its filing today in the...; Tags: FCC, Commission, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Management, Sales Force Management, Federal Government, Internet, Networking, Sales, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List: Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...; Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-09-04
The power of standard protocols: I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...; Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Red Hat acquires Qumranet: I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...; Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Ten key differences between Linux and Windows: Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Here are the key differences distilled into one list....; Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jack Wallen. TechRepublic, Jack Wallen. ZDNet.co.uk, Windows, Microsoft, GNU Public License; News items 2008-09-04
Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates: It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...; Tags: Alternative Energy, mW, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-09-04