December 29, 2010 7:21 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
attracting a crowd means imposing crowd control,
brute force trumps gentility when the going gets tough,
holiday travel mayhem and madnessIn computer science the way in which service requesters line up and obtain processing is called a "queuing discipline." The average wait time to process a service request depends on how long the line of pending requests is (queue length), how that line gets organized and handled (queue delay), and...
December 17, 2010 7:48 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Microsoft Technology Associate,
MTA gaining traction,
the MTA targets academiaIn yesterday's blog on the MS IT Academy I alluded to a conversation with Microsoft that I held on Tuesday, December 14 with various employees of Microsoft...
December 16, 2010 3:56 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
MS IT Academy program enjoys 24% annual growth,
MS IT Academy program growing worldwide,
MS IT Academy program offers numerous benefits to educatorsIn a short but free-wheeling conversation with Lutz Ziob, General Manager of Microsoft Learning, and Jeff Johnson, North America Academic Area Lead, Microsoft Learning on Tuesday, December 14, about the Microsoft IT Academy program, I learned lots of interesting stuff as I sought to follow up on...
December 14, 2010 4:39 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Cisco certs add focus on IPv6,
Cisco Certs gain recognition for IPv6 coverage,
Cisco ups its IPv6 ante,
standadlone IPv6 courses available from Cisco LearningI held a very interesting phone conversation with Fred Weiller yesterday. Mr. Weiller is Director of Marketing for Cisco Learning, and our appointed topic of conversation was coverage of and focus on IPv6 protocols, tools, and technologies across Cisco's learning portfolio. This conversation came...
December 13, 2010 3:38 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
can MS rise to the challenge that tablets and smartphones pose to its market dominance,
MS faces serious market challenges outside the PC arena,
Windows 7 sales numbers and forecast through 2014There's a classic example in b-school circles that's used to explain mis-guided (or at least, mis-placed) development and investment emphasis. It's applied to buggy whip manufacturers who, even after the automobile started to stake out a growing stake in the transportation marketplace, kept on...
December 13, 2010 2:59 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
does a local Austin uptick presage a broader recovery,
hoping that local IT employment bump is a trend and not an anomaly,
uptick in Austin high tech hiring reportedWhile listening to my local NPR affiliate this morning (KUT.org) I caught an interesting story during the local news segment that's presented at six minutes past the hour during the broadcast. A local KUT reporter interviewed...
December 10, 2010 6:42 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
MCTs can bump MS Learning Exam Pack discounts by 5%,
save 20-25% on multiple MS cert exams,
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