IT Today: This Year's Top Paying IT Certifications, A Primer on SecureID for Two-Factor Security

By James Alan Miller February 25, 2013 1:24 PM

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Today On TIP: 2013's Top Paying IT Certifications, RSA SecurID for Two-Factor Security, VCE Expands Vblock Cloud Infrastructure Systems, onverged Storage Reins in Big Data, What's a Virtual Phone?, Application Optimization Who's Watching Your Network?, and more.

Top Paying IT Certifications of 2013

Training and certification guru Ed Tittel comments on a recent list of the top 15 paying IT credentials for this year.

RSA SecurID for Two-Factor Security: A Primer

Multi-Factor authentication is a security technology that incorporates two or more of the following: something you know, something you have, and something you are.

VCE Expands Vblock Cloud Infrastructure Systems

Announces release of two new Vblock systems aimed at mid-market customers.

Sponsored: Converged Storage Reins in Big Data

Converged storage controls explosive data growth while maintaining operational efficiency and simplicity.

VIDEO: What's a Virtual Phone?

Mobile Virtualization Platform on near horizon!

Slideshow: Ten of the Worst Security Breaches of All Time

Enormous data breaches were much harder to accomplish in the days before networked electronic databases.

VIDEO: Application Optimization Tune Ups Network Performance

Before dismissing network performance problems as something you can live with, consider the adverse impact slow application response times can have on your business.

VIDEO: Who's Watching Your Network?

By monitoring the network, you’re really monitoring connectivity between devices and their performance.

Moore’s Law In Pictures: An Illustrated History of the Microprocessor
Consider the orders of magnitude (and sheer manufacturing prowess) required to morph the very first 4-Bit microprocessors into the multicore powerhouses we use today.

Is the Public Cloud Safe?

This article is the first of a series that examines public cloud security—its concerns, current status and questions potential adopters should ask.

Swimming with Sharks in the IT Fish Tank

Fish tanks one of the better analogies for corporate IT management.

Getting Started with the Cloud: Rackspace Open Cloud

Hosting company turned cloud computing champion competes intelligently by focusing on customer service and offering core cloud computing services.

Adult Education for IT Advancement: You Get Back What You Put In

Simply taking a class isn’t necessarily going to boost your IT career all by itself.

Cartoon: King on IT – The Dell Buyout

Michael Dell romances investor Silver Lake to buyout the struggling company he founded.

Sponsored: Scaling Out with Converged Networks

Networks need to be simpler, flatter and more capable of meeting the high-scale demands of dynamic workloads

Slideshow: The History of the Desktop Operating System

Join us for a journey back in time and meet those operating systems that laid the foundation for the computer as we know it today.

Cartoon: King on IT – Cybersecurity Drones

The government gets serious about cybersecurity.

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Slideshow: Buyer's Guide - Application Optimization Appliances

As businesses struggle to meet the needs of remote, mobile and branch office users, IT pros are striving to find ways to improve the performance of line of business applications.

Public Clouds: Matters Of The External Connection

It's a mistake for enterprises to assume that after making the move to a public cloud service that all “infrastructure has gone out the door” and bandwidth worries are no more.

Internal Cloud Bandwidth Concerns: The Buyer’s Perspective

IT departments generally overbuy or underbuy bandwidth because they lack a firm grasp on what applications require and what end-users expect and demand.

Implement QoS for Better Network Performance and Reliability

IT pros now looking to Quality of Service as way to alleviate the thorny network problems they wrestle with every day.

Avoid Network Performance Problems with Automated Monitoring

IT pros now looking to Quality of Service as way to alleviate the thorny network problems they wrestle with every day.

VIDEO: Why Virtualize?

There are several reasons why you should try virtualization.

When Application Tuning Becomes Network Optimization

When application components have been tuned but performance problems remain, the network becomes a prime suspect.

Application Control: How to Detect Performance Bottlenecks

The ability to monitor applications to detect and respond to problems is becoming a must have capability for the seasoned IT pro.

VLANs, Subnets and Confusion – How to Monitor Complex Networks

IT pros are finding that as networks grow in complexity, so does their maintenance and troubleshooting chores.

Slideshow: Buyer’s Guide - WAN Optimization Appliances

What exactly can an IT pro do to head off the coming storm of overwhelming network traffic and prevent connectivity chaos?

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VIDEO: Ed's Story - From Mainframe to Virtualization

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James Alan Miller is Managing Editor of Tom's IT Pro. He is a veteran technology journalist with over seventeen years of experience creating and developing magazine and online content. Founding editor of numerous business and enterprise computing sites at the internet.com network, James headed up the After Hours section at PC Magazine, as well as hardware and software sections of various Windows publications.

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