Which tech degrees pay the most from day one?

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	Which tech degrees pay the most from day one? Young technologists have a variety of undergraduate degrees that they can pursue at the collegiate level. But which degree is going to produce the most job offers and the highest starting salaries? Should college students major in computer science, software engineering, IT or some other niche in order to snare the top prize four years from now: a six-figure starting salary, perhaps with stock options? Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Holistic Service Management is Critical to the Growth of IT This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More. In this Issue Hybrid technology degrees emerging Pew: Twitter not an accurate measure of public opinion Upload 100X faster to Amazon's cloud with optimization service? Not quite, one analyst says Driven by 10G, Ethernet switches buck economic headwinds IDC says tech spending will grow by 6% this year, the same rate as 2012 EMC unveils all-SSD array, one app to manage all flash CloudFlare briefly drops off Internet deflecting DDOS attack Top tech companies plug into renewable power Cybercriminal teen hacked prison mainframe while taking IT course Microsoft acquires cloud monitoring startup MetricsHub WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Resolve Performance Issues Within Your Citrix Environment Citrix offers significant benefits to IT organizations but alters the performance troubleshooting process due to its unique architecture. Breakthrough new technology flips the Citrix performance management paradigm on its head by providing unprecedented end-to-end visibility of user transactions traversing a Citrix server. Read Now Hybrid technology degrees emerging As demand for college graduates with technical degrees soars, new majors are emerging that are hybrids of computer science, information systems and computer engineering. Read More Pew: Twitter not an accurate measure of public opinion Opinions expressed on Twitter differ from public opinion measured by surveys on key political events and policy issues, reflecting that users of the Internet service are demographically very different from the public, according to a study by Pew Research Center. Read More Upload 100X faster to Amazon's cloud with optimization service? Not quite, one analyst says WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak last week announced a service that it proclaims speeds data transfers into Amazon's cloud by 100 times compared to not using Silver Peak's deduplication system. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco The Total Economic Impact of Desktop Virtualization Forrester interviewed four existing Cisco customers and found that a composite company experienced a risk-adjusted ROI of 72% with desktop virtualization based on VXI. Learn about the potential costs, benefits, and total economic impact. Read Now Driven by 10G, Ethernet switches buck economic headwinds The Ethernet switch market eked out modest growth in 2012 against the backdrop of an uncertain global economy, underscored by weakness in Europe and lower public sector spending. Read More IDC says tech spending will grow by 6% this year, the same rate as 2012 IDC is predicting a growth rate of 6% in IT spending in the U.S. this year, an amount that's virtually unchanged from last year. Read More EMC unveils all-SSD array, one app to manage all flash EMC today announced its first purpose-built, all SSD array along new PCIe server flash cards and a new software suite that can offer administrators a single view of all their flash assets across the data center. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Taking Collaboration to the Cloud The 25-point plan and the Cloud First policy both encourage and pressure Federal CIOs to find cloud solutions that can result in significant cost take-outs in the IT support model. Read Now CloudFlare briefly drops off Internet deflecting DDOS attack CloudFlare's Juniper routers choked on a slight programming change designed to deflect a distributed denial-of-service attack, knocking the company's services off the Internet for about an hour early Sunday morning. Read More Top tech companies plug into renewable power Leading tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple are making huge inroads in the use of renewable energy for corporate facilities and data centers, but cost and delivery challenges remain. Read More Cybercriminal teen hacked prison mainframe while taking IT course One of the UK's most skilled and successful convicted cybercriminals was allegedly able to hack into his prison's mainframe after being allowed to take an IT course, an industrial tribunal hearing has heard. Read More Microsoft acquires cloud monitoring startup MetricsHub Microsoft has acquired MetricsHub, a startup focused on technology for automating cloud performance management. Read More
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