July 2, 2009 3:53 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
free MCP exam voucher,
IT career planning,
IT certification,
MS certificationThis blog post is just a progress report, or perhaps a placeholder. At this time, I'm waiting for feedback from my colleagues at Microsoft and SearchNetworking.com (who sponsored this contest, MS by providing the exam vouchers, and SearchNetworking by encouraging me to create and promote this...
June 29, 2009 9:50 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
adult education,
continuing education,
IT career planning,
IT certification,
IT training,
soft skills developmentI find myself in a very interesting work situation right now. Because of a couple of books I wrote in the mid-90s — those halcyon days when computer books flew off the shelves, and good writing work on relatively advantageous terms was easy to find by today's standards — I find myself now...
June 26, 2009 2:57 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
CCDP,
CCIE,
CCNA,
CCNA Security,
CCNA specializations,
CCNA Voice,
CCNA Wireless,
CCNP,
CCSP,
CCVP,
Cisco certification,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certificationI'd been wondering recently why Cisco is expanding its ever-popular CCNA certification to include CCNA Security, CCNA Voice, and CCNA Wireless. Now I get it: Cisco also offers various professional credentials, including CCDP (Design), CCNP (Networking), CCSP (Security), and CCVP (Voice), as well as...
June 22, 2009 2:41 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
2009 IT job market,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT employment situationJust for grins, I decided to jump over to the other side of the Atlantic to take a look at the employment picture over there to see how we stack up against the world's largest aggregated economy. Given the state of global markets and economic trends, it should come as no huge surprise that things...
June 17, 2009 3:37 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Certified Wireless Network Professional,
Certified Wireless Technology Specialist,
CWNP,
CWTS,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
Wireless#My buddies over at Planet 3 Wireless, the organization behind the Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) certification program, are making a change in their entry-level certification. The current and soon-to-be-prior credential,...
June 10, 2009 5:14 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Green IT,
Green IT initiatives,
Green Technology,
IT career planning,
IT careersEverywhere I turn these days, and in much of what I do, green initiatives for IT are springing up like mushrooms after the rain. I recently wrote a white paper for a major messaging security service vendor that explained how using SaaS (Software as a Service) helps companies green up, and save on...
June 8, 2009 12:49 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
CCEE,
CCIA,
Citrix Certification,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
virtualization certificationsLast October, my good buddy and Citrix maven, Jeff Rohrer, blogged to report that Citrix Education announced some new credentials as part of its looming lineup. In that discussion he introduces the CCIA, or Citrix Certified...
June 6, 2009 5:54 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
adult educuation,
Certification Magazine,
college degree in IT,
continuing education,
IT career planning,
IT certificationI'll kick off this blog with a snippet of self-disclosure. I was on the masthead at Certification Magazine from 1999 until 2007 as a contributing editor and then as technology editor. During the glory days from 1999 to 2003 or so, the magazine...
June 6, 2009 5:29 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
CISSP,
CLSSP,
Information Security,
ISC-squared,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certificationAsk any security-savvy software developer how best to make code secure, and he or she will quickly tell you something like "To make code secure, you must design it to be secure, then test the heck out of it to make sure the implementation lives up to that design goal." And in fact, a growing body...
