4 strategies for managing junior IT professionals

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	4 strategies for managing junior IT professionals Spring and summer school sessions have ended, and, if you're like a number of organizations around the globe, you have a giant pile of resumes and just a handful of openings for some fresh faces to join your firm at the bottom rungs of the corporate ladder. Hiring the right person is a difficult process, but managing the new employees--or, let's be honest, managing any employee--is even more challenging. Nobody sets out to be a bad manager, but that transformation can happen over time if your policies and your behavior are left unchecked. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Sophisticated Simplicity The key is to build simplicity and ease of use into these solutions from Day 1. This white paper will demonstrate a clear path to UC simplicity, and to overall success of UC deployments. Learn more. In this Issue Netflix factor has university networks creaking under streaming video strain New BlackBerry 10 devices impress -- but can they save RIM? 10 Gmail tools to supercharge your inbox Virtualized network services will be game changer for enterprise IT Apple's early iPhone prototypes Ditching Postini, switching to Google Vault What's behind the broken banks? VMworld: Riverbed shows off killer app for VDI Extreme Tech: 22 Devices That Go All Out WHITE PAPER: Cisco Cisco Bring Your Own Device This paper explores the challenges mobile devices create for IT, offers key considerations before adopting a BYOD strategy and highlights a comprehensive architecture from Cisco that enables freedom of choice for users while affording IT security and control. Learn more. Netflix factor has university networks creaking under streaming video strain With the return of students to the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth's campus in the fall, the university's network will be required to cope with a huge increase in demand -- and the major culprit, according to network systems manager Richard Pacheco, is Netflix. Read More New BlackBerry 10 devices impress -- but can they save RIM? You may not have noticed, but BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has been on a media blitz during the past few weeks, showing off its upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones to select reporters and bloggers in "off-the-record" demonstrations. Read More 10 Gmail tools to supercharge your inbox From dynamic contact tracking to analytics in your inbox, these add-ons and services provide enhanced capabilities for both casual and power Gmail users. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Bring Your Own Mobile Devices to School In today's educational environments, more and more students, guests, and faculty are bringing in their own Wi-Fi devices into the school's network. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions IT administrators are facing and how to address the security and management of the multiple devices being introduced into the wireless/wired network. Learn more. Virtualized network services will be game changer for enterprise IT Software defined networks (SDNs) open the door to services like software defined acceleration (SDA). Read More Apple's early iPhone prototypes Among the more interesting products of the Apple-Samsung trial are Apple's early iPhone prototypes that never saw the light of day ... until now. Read More Ditching Postini, switching to Google Vault For the 12-strong IT department at Caraustar, a Georgia-based recycled paper packaging company, switching from Google Postini to the Google Vault email archiving and management service was a matter of saving time, as much as anything. Read More WHITE PAPER: Xirrus Tablets in the Enterprise Tablets are replacing laptops at lightning speed. Whether company-issued or part of the BYOD phenomenon, the increased use of smart devices has resulted in a dramatic shift in network traffic with an emphasis on wireless. This paper explains how to predict Wi-Fi demands and architect a best-fit wireless network strategy for your environment. Learn more. What's behind the broken banks? Hardly a day goes by without a story about the UK banking community messing up in some way or other. Some of the highest profile stories of the year have been around banks side-stepping regulation and fixing the markets for their own benefit. Read More VMworld: Riverbed shows off killer app for VDI Earlier this year, Riverbed released a product known as the "Granite Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure (VSI)" to optimize the performance of many of the applications that it's core product, Steelhead, does not. Read More Extreme Tech: 22 Devices That Go All Out Check out these 22 devices that push the limits of technology in almost every way. Read More
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