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By Erik Eckel   Takeaway: The certification landscape changes as swiftly as the technologies you support. Erik Eckel looks at the certs that are currently relevant and valuable to IT pros. When it comes to IT skills and expertise, there are all kinds of “best certification” lists. Pundits are quick to add the safe bets:

By Scott Lowe Takeaway: We may not know exactly what’s going to happen in the tech world this year — but a lot of you have strong opinions about what WON’T be happening. Last week, we put out a Call for Feedback asking you, the loyal TechRepublic community, to tell us what you think are

STAMFORD, Conn., November 9, 2011— Worldwide security services spending is on pace to reach $35.1 billion in 2011, up from $31.1 billion in 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. The market is forecast to total $38.3 billion in 2012, and surpass $49.1 billion in 2015. “The security services market has changed rapidly over the last several

Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decisions when applying Microsoft’s November 2011 patches in your organization. So, we’re treated to one of the lightest Patch Tuesdays of the year, with no really big items done out of band either. And the whole thing is ruined by MS11-083, which

  Enterprise users and consumers who have held off buying new PCs recently may come to regret their decision as a hard-drive shortage following floods in Thailand is expected to result in higher prices, according to Gartner.   The market research company on Monday presented its survey of third-quarter PC sales in western Europe, reporting

Analysts to Dispel the Hype and Examine the Reality of RaaS at Gartner Data Center & Operations Summit, November 28-29 in London, and at the Gartner Data Center Conference, December 5-8 in Las Vegas Egham, UK, November 7, 2011—   By 2014, 30 percent of midsize companies will have adopted recovery-in-the-cloud, also known as recovery-as-a-service

ORLANDO — If you had to pick 10 technology-related trends that will impact your enterprise infrastructure in the coming year, Gartner says you’d do well to start with virtualization and move to other issues such as social media influence, energy issues and flat networks to name a few. At the Gartner Symposium IT/Expo, David Cappuccio,

By Toni Bowers Nucleus Research, Inc. has released its top ten tech trends for 2012. We’re seeing a lot of the same predictions from the Gartner Symposium so IT pros would be wise to check these out for possible career enhancement. 1. The Productive Enterprise Nudged by the ready adoption of Facebook, many enterprise software

By Jason Hiner Takeaway: Gartner analyst Ken McGee has a radical assessment of IT and what CIOs need to do about. Read his principles of the “new CIO manifesto.”  The traditional IT department has entered a period of massive transformation and CIOs are having to completely rethink the way they lead, strategize, and manage their

By Jason Hiner Takeaway: At its annual Symposium, Gartner unveiled its list of the 10 most strategic tech trends of 2012, including a controversial demotion of the cloud. Gartner analyst David Cearly peppered his audience of change-weary IT leaders with a new list of the tech trends that are going to rock their world next