Stories by Denise Dubie

FAQ: What does the HP-EDS deal really mean?

HP Tuesday announced its plans to acquire EDS for US$13.9 billion in a deal that would double HP's services business and revive EDS' position as a leader in global technology services. The acquisition will catapult HP's annual revenue for services from less than $20 billion to nearly $40 billion and position HP as the second largest services provider in the world. Here is a look at what is happening and why now.

Women in IT thank mums for encouragement

Not just professional athletes and actors thank their mothers for helping them succeed. Women in IT also credit their mums for making them realise they could conquer any career -- even the male-dominated high-tech industry.

IT pays homage to mothers

Troubleshooting performance problems, configuring routers or responding to help-desk calls might not bring images of mum to everyone's mind, but network managers say that without applying key lessons learned from their mothers, they couldn't have succeeded in IT.

Dr. House-like diagnostics for your network

Network and systems management technologies have come a long way, but networks have come even further - making it difficult for network teams to quickly diagnose performance problems.

Assembling a 'network A-team'

Have you spent millions on management software and still struggle to quickly determine the root cause of network performance problems?

INTEROP - Startups take on network security, management

Interop inspires industry veterans and newcomers alike to put on display their most innovative products, hoping to catch the eye of network managers with IT problems to solve.

INTEROP - Virtualization is major network management challenge

As more companies deploy virtualization technologies, more network managers expect the technology to introduce management challenges to their environments, according to an Interop show poll.

Wanted: 10 IT skills employers need today

Technology pros looking to find new work or secure their current jobs should get schooled on wireless, Web 2.0 and virtualization while also boning up on business basics.

20 free software favorites

Freeware applications and open source software that provide IT managers with great tools at no cost.

Hosting companies accused of harboring infected sites

StopBadware.org on Friday identified five Web-hosting companies with myriad infected Web sites residing on their servers, which the industry watchguard says puts unwitting Internet users at risk.

Cisco steps up its WAN optimization game

Cisco Tuesday is set to introduce a product suite that couples the company's Wide-Area File Services and content distribution technologies with optimization features to deliver an integrated feature set that tackles application performance over the WAN and at branch offices.

The ins and outs of recruitment software

Job No. 1 in finding IT work these days is convincing resume screening programs you have the required skills and should be granted an in-person interview.

More than 160,000 H-1B applications subject to lottery

Nearly 163,000 H-1B petitions for fiscal year 2009 will now be subject to random lottery selection as part of the temporary work visa program.

What to wear when the interviewer is a program?

Terri Morgan could sell her talents to anyone that would listen, but software programs used to screen IT job applicants don't hear so well.

Ruby on Rails vendor lands US$6.2 million in funding

Systems management software maker FiveRuns announced Monday that it had garnered US$6.2 million in funding from Austin Ventures.

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