Mary Stevens

What do you call an employee who works with a companys top brass to define a business problem, collaborates with departmental staff to hammer out the requirements and helps the IT crew determine the best technology to use to solve it? Increasingly, this employee is likely to be tagged “IT business technologist” or “IT business […]

With an open, accessible code base and no license fees, Linuxs bottom-line appeal is obvious. Perhaps less obvious, however, is whether IT professionals should certify their expertise in this operating system and, if so, which cert they should pursue. Some Linux certifications, at least, are becoming worthy of significant compensation, according to Foote Partners LLC, […]

It started with cell phones and pagers. Now, more and better wireless devices are creeping into more organizations every day—and not just through the back door. And, as enterprises arm workers with WLANs (wireless LANs), it stands to reason that theyll look to hire IT professionals with proven wireless skills and experience. So does that […]

You have everything you need to land that job. You know the technical territory and have relevant experience to spare. Its a perfect fit. Theres just one problem: The interviewer sitting across the table from you doesnt have a clue about the job youre applying for and insists youre not qualified. Sound familiar? Many enterprises […]

Available now: IT jobs with rising pay, good benefits and plenty of opportunity for career advancement. To professionals struggling through the tech downturn, this might sound very last-century, but it could be the not-too-distant future for IT security specialists. A heightened post-Sept. 11 focus on security, coupled with the recent creation of the 170,000-person federal […]

Tomcat is a favorite of mine because I like writing Web applications in Java, and its so easy to quickly download and set up on both Windows and Unix-based servers. Apache Tomcat 4.0, the Apache Software Foundations free Java application server (available at jakarta.apache.org/tomcat), was released last month. The Tomcat server supports the latest Java […]

Need More Space? Hit the Pool A server on one end of a network needs more storage capacity, pronto. Several nodes away, another department has more storage space than it can possibly use. If the company has a SAN installed, the IT department can address this unbalanced load by tapping storage virtualization. In the Cover […]