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The Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA) certification is a hands-on course spread over four days, where participants will be taught to install and configure the Red Hat Virtualization Manager, and use it to, among other tasks, create data centers, manage hypervisor hosts, create storage and import installation media for creating new virtual machines.
In an interview with ZDNet Asia Monday, director of certification for RHCVA Randolph Russell stressed the importance of hands-on knowledge in the training, which he said is a key differentiator from other courses in the market.
New research sponsored by SAP’s Sybase proves the tangible importance of data quality to an organisation, it has been claimed.
IT Business Edge blogger Loraine Lawson explained that a study conducted by the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas showed there are five data-related areas which can change financial metrics.
"Specifically, a mere ten per cent improvement in one or two areas – data quality, usability, intelligence, remote accessibility or sales mobility – can help finances," she explained.
There’s no doubt that interest in private cloud computing is growing rapidly. But just because a cloud is private doesn’t mean it will be running on-premise. In fact, chances are that most private cloud computing implementations will run on public cloud infrastructure.
A Google engineer was fired for violating the company’s privacy rules, Google said today. The search giant was responding to a report that the engineer had improperly accessed the accounts of several teenagers.
"We dismissed David Barksdale for breaking Google’s strict internal privacy policies," said Bill Coughran, senior vice president of Google, in a statement.
Finland’s Nokia has appointed Microsoft business manager Stephen Elop as its new chief executive.
Mr Elop – the first non-Finn to head Nokia – will replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, a lifelong employee who had been chief executive since 2006.
The appointment may mark a sea-change in strategy at the top of the company.
In July, Nokia reported a 40% slump in second quarter profits, as it has struggled to maintain its lead in the booming smartphone market.
Software-as-a-service solutions can be useful in helping the work of call centres.
According to TMC Net writer Tracey Schelmetic, the use of the technology can allow businesses working in this industry to improve their flexibility while lowering costs.
"Call centres using software-as-a-service-delivered solutions can ‘virtualise’ the applications, structuring their call centre entity in the best configuration possible for high quality and controlled costs," she stated.
Gone, and probably to be forgotten, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is to be replaced as Nokia CEO by a Microsoft divisional head.
The first reaction to the news–not to the long-anticipated going of Kallasvuo–was that the appointment of Microsoft’s head of its business division, Stephen Elop, was a make-or-break decision for the company’s future in the smartphone market.
In its latest report on the cloud computing market in APEJ and a survey of end users, IDC says CIOs have been inundated with a barrage of information about the cloud in the last 12 months with “higher awareness of both the pros and cons of the public and private cloud delivery models.”
Back in 2005, Move.com was running about two servers for every employee. To be precise, to keep its bandwidth-hogging online real estate services business afloat, the 1,000-employee company operated more than 2,000 servers spread across two data centers—not a ratio most IT managers would envy.
So Move.com undertook a major server rationalization effort that hinged on virtualization, or dividing its servers to run many instances per box, thereby reducing its overall server footprint and associated costs.