Life as an IT contractor

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	Life as an IT contractor The upside of life as an IT contractor is alluring. You get to be your own boss, accept only the jobs you want, and work flexible hours. With each assignment comes the opportunity to learn new skills and gain exposure to different environments. But there are obvious sacrifices – job security and paid vacations, for starters. Read More : KnowBe4 Avoid the Nightmare of CryptoLocker Since September 2013, several ransomware strains are attacking end-users. You cannot just rely on your filters, you also have to train your end-users. Get a Quote for your organization now and your users trained ASAP. If your files get encrypted due to human error after your user steps through our training, KnowBe4 will pay the crypto-ransom. Learn more >> In this Issue Is your Ethernet fast enough? Four new speeds are in the works INSIDER 16 tips for thriving as an IT contractor Windows 10: The votes are pouring in for these 10 features In search of killer meetings Startup offers a big-data storyteller Suspicions dashed, Dell cozies up to OpenDaylight Vanity Fair revisits Microsoft, says Gates and Ballmer no longer BFFs MasterCard demos a prototype contactless card with a fingerprint sensor Six browser plug-ins that protect your privacy WHITE PAPER: Tintri Inc. Application-Aware Storage Server virtualization brings tremendous value in terms of adding operational agility and significant cost savings through consolidation, increased utilization, and workload portability, but storage can be an inhibitor to realizing that value. Learn more Is your Ethernet fast enough? Four new speeds are in the works Ethernet's future is now about much more than the next top speed. Read More INSIDER 16 tips for thriving as an IT contractor When demand exceeds the supply of available IT talent, many companies are using contractors to help fill the gaps. IT contractors provide manpower when workloads spike and can bring key expertise and skills to a team. Here's how to make it work. Read More Windows 10: The votes are pouring in for these 10 features The people are speaking! Users of the Windows 10 Technical Preview can suggest and vote for desired features. Here are the features getting the most thumbs-up right now. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Top 5 Truths About Big Data Hype and Security Intelligence Big Data Security Analytics (BDSA) is the subject of exuberant predictions. However, a Gartner analyst points out that no available BDSA solutions come close to these forecasts. Nevertheless, the principles of Big Data are the key to advanced security intelligence. This white paper discusses the key tenets of Big Data. Learn more >> In search of killer meetings I've been thinking a lot about in-person/virtual meetings lately: Whether they should largely be killed off along with other outmoded things like musicals and namifying, or whether they should be allowed to live and thrive in a new and better format. Read More Startup offers a big-data storyteller Amassing a pile of big data is not sufficient to spur insight, even if you have clever ways of analyzing that data. The savvy data scientist must also find a way to make all this information tell a story so it can be understandable to others. Read More Suspicions dashed, Dell cozies up to OpenDaylight Meanwhile, little progress evident in Dell's OMG SDN working committee. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Accelerate your innovation with IBM Bluemix™ Join us for a webcast introducing the new IBM BluemixTM. IBM Bluemix (www.bluemix.net) is a developer oriented Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment that is based on the Cloud Foundry open source project. It provides you easy access to a rich library of IBM, 3rd party and open source runtimes, services and APIs. Learn More Vanity Fair revisits Microsoft, says Gates and Ballmer no longer BFFs Two years ago, Vanity Fair turned its sights on Microsoft and painted a fairly ugly picture of a company in chaos, with fingers of blame pointed squarely at CEO Steve Ballmer. I said something contrary to that, and pointed out the good things Microsoft had done. Read More MasterCard demos a prototype contactless card with a fingerprint sensor MasterCard is testing a contactless payment card with a built-in fingerprint reader that can authorize high-value payments without requiring the user to enter a PIN. Read More Six browser plug-ins that protect your privacy It's no stretch to say that ads are what make the Web go 'round. The content you're reading right now? Paid for by ads. Google, Facebook, Pandora, YouTube? Driven by ads. This is not a new concept: TV and radio have relied on commercials since their earliest days. Because, let's face it, something has to pay for all the free programming and services. Read More
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