June 22, 2010 4:00 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
CCIE emeritus,
CCIE program extended,
Cisco provides program to retain veteran CCIEsIn recent phone conversations with Fred Weiller and Angela Mendoza of Cisco (Mr. Weiller is the Director of Marketing for Learning@Cisco, and Ms. Mendoza is the Marketing Manager for Cisco Certifications), I learned that the company plans to extend and build upon its always-popular and highly...
June 21, 2010 3:20 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
changes in measurement don't translate into changes in status,
Economist "Extension Deficit Disorder",
long-term unemployed may not be counted for too much longer
June 21, 2010 2:53 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
add a network integrity/uptime check to MSS diagnostics HP,
further adventures in network troubleshooting,
HP EX-495 MSS goes south and gets returnedIn the past weeks, I've recounted some misadventures in the wake of replacing my heavily-used but now retired HP EX-475 MediaSmart Server (MSS). That unit has been replaced with a brand-new EX-495 unit, which upgrades the AMD Sempron processor to an Intel E5200 Core Duo, and bumps the internal...
June 16, 2010 9:26 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
ethics of charging for non-working services,
service provider issues,
voice mail woesMy good friend, and occasional employer and/or collaborator, David Strom, produced a very nice Web Informant blog today entitled "Strom's cable Internet odyssey." Therein, he recounts some amazing and bothersome issues in...
June 14, 2010 8:20 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
but not yet recovered,
corners are in sight but not yet turned,
IT jobs marginally up,
IT jobs situation,
More modest signs of IT jobs improvementsJohn Oates recent Channel Register story "IT jobs market recovering well/So where's my raise?" cites a four percent increase in technology jobs advertised for Q1'10 versus Q1'09 as evidence of recovery. I'd...
June 11, 2010 4:41 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
MCAS reverts to MOS,
Microsoft Office Specialist certification,
MOS certification,
MS certificationMOS stands for MIcrosoft Office Specialist and is a family of certifications from Microsoft Learning that deals with all the major office components — namely, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access...
June 9, 2010 1:22 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
CCAr credential,
Cisco certifications,
Cisco Certified Architect,
IT certificationI had the good fortune to spend some time on the phone last week with Fred Weiller, Director of Marketing for Learning at Cisco, along with Erik Ullanderson, Manager of Global Certifications for the same company. We talked our way through the new Cisco Certified Architect credential (sometimes...
June 8, 2010 7:25 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT careers,
IT employment,
May 2010 employment situation summary,
May 2010 IT employmentTo me the most interesting thing about the latest Employment Situation Summary (May 2010) is that once again we're going essentially nowhere from the preceding month. Though the numbers show a solid increase in employment...
June 3, 2010 3:05 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
computer forensics certification remains a wild frontier,
computer forensics certifications,
IT certificationLast week, I got a phone call from one of my publishers asking for a revision to this Sybex title Computer Forensics...
