Blogs & Columns

CAREERS

"Demand, Salaries Rising for Networking Pros"

"Do you have what it takes to make in in IT management?"

"Getting certified on a shoestring budget"

"How Network Managers Can Make Themselves Less Scary"

 "Job Studies Find Lots of Good News for IT"

"Mobile Demand Fueling App Developer Shortage"

"Our View: Tuning the work force"

@Work -- "Accidental Fall Guys"

@Work -- "Army Seeks Sleuths"

@Work -- "Auditors In Demand"

@Work -- "Creating Awareness"

@Work -- "Curing the Summer Infosec Blues"

@Work -- "Hooked On Forensics"

@Work -- "Manager's Top Priority"

@Work -- "Sensational Salaries for Security"

@Work -- "Uncle Sam Wants You"


CONSTRUCTION & HOME BUILDING

"A Call for Certification"

"Bridging the Gap Between Builders and IT"

"Guide to the tecHOMExpo"

"Marketing Demystified"

"Selling Lifestyles, Not Gadgets"

"Time Is Right for TecHome Expo"

"The Untapped Active Adult Market"

"Winning Hearts with Home Technology"


EDUCATION

"10 Interactive Whiteboard "Don'ts"

"Access & Fit Top Ed Tech Challenges"

"Case study: Oregon schoolchildren living well in the cloud"

"Ed Tech's Attention Deficit"

"Educators Embrace Social Networks"

"How to Find Out What Parents Think About Educational Technology: Ask Them"

"How to Sustain Technology Funding"

"Plan a Successful Google Apps Rollout"

"Save the Media Specialists"

"Technology in the Classroom" (as by Jaime Escalante)

"Technology Distribution on a Low Budget"

"Thinking About Chromebooks? Here's Everything You Need to Know First"

"Wanted: Good Times With Google Docs"

"White House Budget for Educational Technology Flounders"


HEALTHCARE

"4 healthcare hot topics in 2014"

"A crisis in physician recruitment"

"Achieving accurate product pricing"

"Avoiding medical supply price mismatches"

"Beating the workforce shortage"

"Companies challenging 2012 NLRB rulings should be cautious"

"Community paramedicine programs offer savings"

"Creating a workplace safety program"

"Do CFOs still need a CPA?"

"Doctor extends good bedside manner to debt collection by starting Debt M.D."

"Doctors Embrace E-Prescription Elixir"

"Empowering support staff"

"Female doctors more positive than males"

"Finding the perfect hospital CFO"

"Finding the ROI in workplace wellness"

"Healthcare companies prepare for ICD-10 with hold harmless clauses"

"Healthcare's hiring dilemma: PA or NP?"

"Integrated care benefits weak"

"Layoffs bolster outplacement services"

"M&A looking strong in 2014"

"New study fuels debate over the value of copay offset cards"

"Solutions to doctor shortage needed"

"Successful supply chain negotiations require multifaceted approach"

"Tackling America's greatest drug problem"

"Telework as a competitive edge"

"The CEO's new right-hand man (or woman)"

"Trading for healthcare services"

"Trash to treasure"

"Unions make inroads in healthcare"

"Weeding out unwanted employee candidates"


TECHNOLOGY

"1 in 3 IT managers say: The CIO must go!"

"$10B will take Dept. of Interior to the cloud"

"$1,734 Helps You Master Parallel Universe"

"25% of your staff could be leaving you"

"5 Things You Need to Know About Applications Performance Management"

"5 Trends Fueling the Need for Next-Gen APM Tools"

"50% of large enterprises will adopt hybrid cloud by 2017, Gartner says"

"2014: The Year SMEs Meet Supercomputers?"

"A call to promote worthy IT career efforts"

"A good time to work in IT again"

"A10 Networks gets $80 million in equity funds"

"ADTRAN announces 2 new IP product releases"

"Affordable Care Act opening doors to IT security attacks"

"Amazon Web Services and big data a double winner for IT pros"

"Amazon Web Services is top IaaS provider, Gartner says"

"Amazon Web Services tops search rankings in Dice.com report"

"Amazon, Google and Microsoft are top in developer's survey"

"Analytics Tools Figure Out Social Media Users' Intent"

"Aorta Cloud hopes to avert Nirvanix closing"

"App support kills off 38 percent of IT budget for top firms"

"Aruba Networks debuts cloud-based Wi-Fi management system"

"Assignment: Teach 15 million kids to code. Time: one hour. Begin."

"Attempting to Tame Turbulence with HPCs"

"Autodesk SaaS product could accelerate infrastructure projects"

"Avaya debuts new OpenStack SDN platform"

"Avaya launches UC, cloud consulting services"

"Banks take a greater liking to the cloud"

"Barcelona Supercomputing Center Joins OpenMP board"

"Beating the workforce shortage"

"Best, Brightest Parallel Students Work for "Betterment of Life on Earth"

"Big Data Supercomputer, First Virtualized HPC Cluster Get NSF Funding"

"Big data's big designs for 2014"

"BlueCrystal Supercomputer Shines Among UK's Elite HPCs"

"Blue Jeans Networks gets $50M funding boost"

"Breakthrough Brings Quantum Computer Closer"

"Broadband speeds hitting high gear"

"Building Next-Gen Supercomputers to Shed Light on Solar Efficiency"

"Business, IT at odds on network infrastructure investments"

"Buying Major Supercomputer Power in Bulk"

"BYOD gets its first certification"

"BYOD market worth $181 billion by 2017"

"BYOD to make traditional phone systems obsolete, study says"

"Call center activity taking off, says Cisco's Hernandez"

"Case Study: Agricultural co-op finds project management solution in the cloud"

"Case study: Tennessee schoolchildren pilot first Microsoft educational cloud tool"

"Cedexis announces upgrades to Radar service"

"CFOs coulda, shoulda be IT's top advocates"

"CIOs Crow -- & Cringe -- About BYOD"

"CIO project power sharing: get used to it"

"CIOs advance boldly into scary cloud territory"

"Cisco cuts 4K jobs on top of strong earnings"

"Cisco reaffirms its support of remote-based workforce"

"Cloud activity set to explode, expert predicts"

"Cloud computing reaches maturity stage for many organizations"

"Cloud could be key to untold riches ... or not"

"Cloud developers are a happier lot nowadays"

"Cloud heart is green, Irish computing expert says"

"Cloud market revenue could reach $20B by 2016"

"Cloud networking popularity on the rise"

"Cloud providers pounce on crippled Nirvanix customers"

"Cloud safety starts with the user, security expert says"

"Cloud security certification in the works following NSA revelations"

"Cloud security fears biggest obstacle to adoption"

"Cloud-enabling technologies market will reach $23B by 2016"

"Clouds are gathering, thickening in 2014"

"Clouds aren't worth the price, ProfitBricks says"

"Community Supercomputer Brings Data Analytics to the Masses"

"CompTIA announces program to certify mobile IT pros"

"Confusing messages on networking pros salary demand"

"Convincing the C-suite to fund IT security"

"CSIR Launches Supercomputer to Enter New Research Era"

"Data centers will be engulfed by clouds by 2017"

"Data Deluge Bottlenecking Breakthroughs"

"Deep Dive into the Development of Xeon Phi"

"Determining the ROI of APM: Know the Real Costs Before Buying In"

"Digital investments driving IT's high performers, Accenture says"

"Digium acquires VocalCloud, launches Digium Cloud Services"

"DOD Deploys Two New Supercomputers"

"DoD Supercomputer Gets New Home"

"DOE Supercomputer Budget Threatened with Major Cuts"

"Does your industry measure up to the cloud?"

"Downtime numbers are downright distressing"

"Education efforts key to successful BYOD programs"

"Embrace, don't fear, your COO and CFO relationships"

"Enterasys, PCM Inc. offer new cloud-based wireless product"

"Enterprise communications predictions for 2013--did ON24 get it right?"

"Enterprises becoming more savvy with cloud service providers"

"Ericsson building new R&D centers in Sweden, Canada"

"Europe wrestles with safety of school children in the cloud"

"Europe's GEANT research network gets major upgrade"

"European commissioner calls for single data privacy law"

"Exascale Supercomputer Expected by 2018"

"Exascale Supercomputer Research Gets Federal Funding Boost"

"Executives sold on value of the cloud"

"Extreme Networks acquiring Enterasys for $180M"

"Fast and Cool: New Tigon HPC Unveiled"

"'Father of the Data Center Industry" Ken Brill dies"

"Federal IT workforce could be slow to recover from shutdown"

"Future Supercomputer Scientists Flock to Global Challenge"

"The game is afoot for 'Sherlock' in the cloud"

"Gesture Control Company Gets Helping Hand From Intel"

"Global cloud spending will reach $47B in 2013"

"Google, Microsoft chasing Amazon in the cloud"

"Google Apps for Education still tops cloud-based offerings"

"Google traffic devours 25% of the Internet"

"Government moves could force data breach confessions"

"Government sees value in SDN, just not right now"

"Government systems unprepared for 'Big 5' challenges"

"Graphene Key to Cheaper, More Efficient Supercomputers?"

"Gravitant release will simplify VMware-based cloud management"

"Growing fan base for Office 365 for Education"

"Gulf States emerge as cloud hotbed"

"H-1B efforts not in sync with IT job market"

"The H1-B visa debate: Where do you stand?"

"Half of organizations worry about cloud expertise, staffing"

"Harnessing BioMed Big Data with Parallel, Cloud"

"Harvard Supercomputer Abused for Dogecoin Mining"

"Healthcare IT jobs are just what the doctor ordered"

"HIPCOM acquisition broadens BroadSoft reach in Europe"

"How to Craft a BYOD Governance Program"

"How Multicore Makes Simulation More Real"

"HPC Drives Life Science Research at Texas Supercomputing Center"

"HPC Market to Be Worth $33.43B by 2018

"Hurricane Hunt Gets New Supercomputer Boost"

"IEEE launches new Intercloud Testbed project"

"Inside the H-1B program: One employer speaks out"

"Intel MIC Opens New Frontiers of Performance" (as by Intel)

"Intel Powers Most of the World's Fastest Supercomputers"

"Intel Rides Wave of Rapid Supercomputer Growth"

"Intel's System Studio Can Debug Your Debugging Process Too"

"InterCall, Polycom announce new UC products"

"Internet of Things won't be gentle on your data center"

"Investors opening up wallets to new cloud ventures"

"Ireland's New Supercomputer to be Names by School Children"

"IT contractor ranks are growing, says OnForce CEO"

"IT efforts braced for tomorrow's Obamacare exchange launches"

"IT jobs are moving, growing and becoming top secret"

"IT managers have investment heads in the clouds"

"IT managers seek reliability above all in the cloud"

"IT salaries, training on the rise in 2014, says SIM"

"IT security pros: worst pressures come from inside"

"IT spending makes its return, Gartner says"

"IT staff to CIOs: Keep the bonuses coming!"

"IT staff unhappy with their jobs? No worries, they'll nearly all be changing anyway"

"Japan Promises Exascale Supercomputer in 2020"

"Keep BYOD policies simple but effective"

"Latest cloud security worry: going out of business"

"Leap for Quantum Supercomputing"

"Learning to Live With Recycled Email Accounts"

"Lightning-Fast Supercomputer to Model Climate Change"

"M2M: The Rise of the Machines? Not Yet"

"Majority of enterprises now have some cloud presence"

"Massively Parallel Supercomputing Tech Simulates 3,000-Atom Nano Device"

"MegaCloud service apparently goes dark"

"Microsoft reportedly developing government cloud platforms"

"Microsoft sued over Surface RT sales reporting"

"Mixing Code Can Draw Penalty Flags"

"Mobile browser usage rises to 20 percent"

"Mobile device management spawning MSM market"

"Mobile devices will enhance, not replace, PC-based online shopping this holiday"

"More companies embracing cloud-based security"

"More large organizations opting for PaaS adoption"

"Most companies fail to explain BYOD policies, study finds"

"Most employees don't view taking corporate data as stealing"

"Most organizations kidding themselves on social collaboration technology"

"Most Powerful Supercomputer in Australia Unleashed"

"Navigating the Parallel, HOC Age: Call for Papers"

"Network performance monitoring flexing its muscle"

"Networking among top skills for 2014, survey reveals"

"Networking pros not likely to automated out of jobs"

"New Benchmark for Fastest Supercomputer"

"New certification offered for cloud technology skills"

"New DNA-Crunching Supercomputer Launches $1,000 Human Genome"

"New IT hiring numbers project slight cooling"

"New Rugged High-Performance Computer Unveiled"

"New studies confirm cooling on IT job front"

"New studies confirm cloud popularity for storage, business intelligence"

"New studies confirm rise in hybrid cloud computing"

"New Zealanders learning to play nice in the cloud"

"News Scan: Billionaire IDG founder Pat McGovern dies; GSA creates new 'digital incubator'; more"

"News Scan: Cloud OS Network; BYOD privacy protection; more"

"News Scan: Cloud security; Top tech trends for 2014; more"

"News Scan: Consumers put retailers on data breach notice; Do IT pros suffer from role identity crisis?; more"

"News Scan: Data analytics: Who needs IT?;  Out with BYOD and in with COPE; more"

"News Scan: Honoring government innovation in the cloud"

"News Scan: Internet of Things hype limits; Geek job seeking gold; more

"News Scan: Is open data a $3 trillion market?; MSPs must focus on customer awareness; more"

"News Scan: Jobs, money up for IT security pros; Students gathering for cyber defense competition; more

"News Scan: Pirated software malware threats; Virtual machine backup woes; more"

"News Scan: Security analytics on the rise; 25% of cloud providers will disappear; more"

"News Scan: Security firms face data breach liability; Cloud market on track to double by 2017; more"

"News Scan: Silicon Valley wage case heads to court; Europe leads US in embracing the cloud; more"

"News Scan: SMBs feel immune from cyberattacks"

"News Scan: State governments embracing big data; Harvard to debut new HBX online learning platform; more"

"News Scan: Wired telecom, semiconductor jobs among most endangered; 5-year-old discovers Xbox vulnerability; more"

"News Scan: Yahoo! encrypting all data; Feds see IT security incidents double; more"

"Nominations due for world's top supercomputers"

"Non-profits given free licenses for Office 365"

"NSA revelations taking toll on ISP market"

"NSF Grant Propels 'Comet' Supercomputer"

"Nuage product extends benefits of SDN automation"

"Obama confident NSA reform proposal provides security needs, privacy protections"

"Obamacare spurs hiring of call center staffers"

"One Source Networks expands IP-based global network"

"One Source Networks launches BaaS offering"

"Open CASCADE Doubles Performance"

"Organizations feel more secure with cloud-based assets"

"Organizations fear hidden costs in the cloud"

"Organizations plan repeat business for cloud projects"

"Pain Points of Application Performance Exposed"

"Parallel Computing Set to Take Center Stage in Europe"

"Parallel HPC Reaches for the Stars"

"Parallel Popularity Making the Grade"

"Parallel Programming Marathon: Could You Go the Distance?"

"Parallel Programming Pioneer Honored"

"Parallel Success Starts With Proper Planning"

"PaRSEC Paves Way for Exascale Supercomputer Generation"

"PayScale report reveals salaries for top IT degrees"

"Peregrine Supercomputer Takes Flight in Search for Renewable Energy"

"Pertino introduces new Network Service Virtualization framework"

"Positive, negative signs ahead for IT spending, says IDC"

"Predicting the Future with Supercomputers?"

"Procurement woes holding state IT initiatives back"

"Purdue Takes Top Honors in Campus Supercomputing Speed Ranking"

"Purdue's Carter Supercomputer Gets New POD Home"

"Putting a face to the BYODer"

"RADVISION Boosts IP Apps for Multicore Processors"

"Rejuvenating Steady, But Slow Profmerge"

"Report looks at most pesky, risky apps"

"Retailers report surging mobile commerce sales"

"The Rise of BYOD: By the Numbers"

"Rise of the CSO: a CIO's power threat or job savior?"

"Scotland's economic future tied to the cloud"

"SDN can save operators $4B in capex by 2017, report says"

"Search for the Next Most Powerful Supercomputer"

"Searching for data scientists? They come in sets of 3!"

"Sherlock Takes Problem-Solving Skills to the Cloud"

"Shoppers Wish Retailers a Very Mobile Christmas"

"Siemen' Project Ansible would unify communications channels"

"Siemens Enterprise Communications and NextPlane partner on federation services"

"Siemens launches, rebrands itself as Unify"

"Smoothing Developers' Path Toward Multicore Apps" (as by Intel)

"Software-defined networks making small inroads"

"Space Junk: Supercomputing's Final Frontier"

"Spotlight: 10 Commandments of BYOD"

"Spotlight: Amazon Web Services plays Welcome Wagon to startups"

"Spotlight: Another study finds value in SDN, but not now"

"Spotlight: Celebrating the life of Ken Brill"

"Spotlight: Cisco's special education technology 'Focus"

"Spotlight: Consortium offers cloud vendor lock-in advice"

"Spotlight: Getting a leg up on SDN skills"

"Spotlight: Google wants expert to lend a Helpout hand"

"Spotlight: IDC MarketScape a who's who of UC market"

"Spotlight: New study looks at global hybrid cloud market"

"Spotlight: Nike finds that some IT jobs just need Americans"

"Spotlight: Nokia takes auto navigation system to the cloud"

"Spotlight: Obamacare hiring may include H-1B workers"

"Spotlight: Researchers fool yacht with fake GPS course"

"Spotlight: The evolution of the TOP500 supercomputer list"

"Spotlight: The see, hear and speak no evil of BYOD"

"Summer IT hiring: 6% more money, double that in pain"

"Supercomputer Aids in Alzheimer's Breakthrough"

"Supercomputer Boosts Cutting-Edge Stroke Research"

"Supercomputer Reveals Secret of Black Holes"

"Supercomputer Simulates Human Brain Activity"

"Supercomputer Uncovers Possible Secret to Cost-Effective Alternative Fuel"

"Supercomputers and Big Data Lead Effort for Oil Independence"

"Supercomputers and SMBs: States Fill in the Gaps"

"Supercomputer Reveals Hundreds of Undetected Arctic Cyclones"

"Supercomputers Shed New Light on Black Hole Mysteries"

"Supercomputing Milestones and Breakthroughs in 2013"

"Supercomputing Spotlighted in Oklahoma"

"Supercomputing Titans Pack Punch, But Lack Power to Beat Exaflop Barrier"

"Survey finds most organizations reduce budgets after IaaS implementation"

"Taking stock on cloud computing in the markets"

"Taking supercomputers to the cloud"

"Taming the Thirst of Supercomputers"

"Tangoe goes into BYOD advisory business"

"TARDIS Supercomputer Cluster to Launch"

"Tech execs meet with White House over 'too slow' NSA reforms"

"Telecommunications jobs sizzle this summer"

"The remote worker debate: Home is where the heart is"

"These tech trends will rule your life in 2014, says IEEE"

"Two new studies paint healthy UC market picture"

"UC market 'on fire,' says Infonetics Research"

"UC market on track for 4% growth through 2016"

"UCT, Enterasys partnership has Caribbean appeal"

"Ukrainian IT center campaign assures the world that 'it's business as usual'"

"USPS awards online authentication contract to SecureKey"

"WAN Managers See New Opportunities in ‘Hybrid IT’"

"Wanted: Energy-Efficient Supercomputers"

"Xeon Leaves Others Green with Envy"

"You Tube mobile traffic sees more than 6-fold increase in 2 years"

"Your next staffing crisis: project managers"

"Zombie device ranks are growing"


BLOGS WITH OTHER WRITERS

"VMware unveils new cloud, virtualization products" (with Dana Gardner)

"VMworld Showcase..." (several blogs in this series) (with Dana Gardner)


QUOTED AUTHORITY ... IN ARTICLES BY OTHERS

Computerworld Magazine -- "Career Watch: Trends in hiring"

"Does an Individual's Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Preference Influence Task-Oriented Technology Use?," by Pamela Ludford and Loren Terveen

Financial Week Magazine -- "Study says wellness programs can lower cost of health-care benefits: Successful companies make good use of worker input"

Institure of Management and Administration (IOMA) -- "Complete Guide to Best Practices in Pay for Performance" (2007)

Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) -- "Complete Guide to Best Practices in Pay for Performance" (2008)

Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) -- "How Best-in-Class Companies Do It"

Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) -- "Three Best Practices for PFP Implementation"

Staffing Management Magazine -- "Hiring Demands Place Emphasis On Talent Acquisition Strategies"

"Understanding Personality Differences: Differences between "Computer" folks and the general population"

U.S. News & World Report Magazine -- "Scoring the best tech jobs: Top-paying employers want more than just computer skills"

"The Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Team Management Systems in Teams," by Alyson M. Mutchler

The Wall Street Journal Newspaper -- "Reality Bytes: Companies put the brakes on soaring IT salaries"


(Note: The above listing is a sampling of columns I have written. Contact me for more information on these columns.)