IT Pros' Biggest Beefs

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions IT Careers September 06, 2011 Top 10 IT Labor Issues for 2011 While most IT professionals are not inclined to form or join a union, that doesn't mean they don't have grievances. In fact, many of them wonder why various IT associations don't do more to address these issues. From added IT complexity to a tough economy that makes it difficult to get a raise, here are 10 of IT professionals' top beefs. Read more > Application Clusters — High Availability Discover how to provide high levels of system availability and scalability, ensuring continuous data access and system flexibility. Download now > Blogs Susan Hall Charting Your IT Career Piecemeal Work Creates More Career Worries John Storts IT Downloads Agile Business Organization: You'll Know It When You See It Don Tennant From Under the Rug Is the Ideal 'How-to' Manual for Business Leaders Divinely Inspired? Get SOA Lifecycle Governance Right   Achieve unlimited agility and organizational flexibility with these strategies and practices for governing SOA. Download now > Top 10 Reasons to Embrace Workshifting Simply put, workshifting is a strategy based on getting work done in the right place by the right people at the right time. This can take many forms — and deliver a wide range of business benefits. For example, business processes or entire departments can be moved to new locations to tap into a broader labor pool. IT Career Path Flow Chart Where do you want your career to be in the next three to five years? Use this flow chart from MDE Enterprises, Inc. to map a course from your current position to upper management, or anywhere else you might want to go. Enterprise App Store Can Provide User Choice, IT Control Enterprise app stores bridge a gap between what users want and what IT needs, says Partnerpedia's Sam Liu in this interview. They will also necessitate changes in IT staff roles. Among them: IT will need to become more savvy at vetting and procuring apps. Latest White Papers Is Your Talent Management Strategy Creating Value? New Approaches to Optimized Data Center Power Distribution Simplifying Enterprise Modernization: Easier Than You Think Security & the Cloud: Augment or Abdicate? Featured White Papers New eBook: Shifting the Focus to Strategic IT Projects This eBook examines why and how CIOs should and can establish themselves as agents of strategic change within their enterprises. •  Maximizing Help Desk Productivity: Try These Top Five Tips •  M2M Technology — When Machines Talk, Efficiencies Soar •  The Business Case for Analytic Platforms "... The private sector alone cannot solve the problem of job creation. But our government leaders have to treat job creation as more than a political football — and so far that doesn't seem to be happening." Excerpt from Susan Hall Charting Your IT Career Premium Tools Cloud Computing Foundation Certification Kit Cloud computing is a topic you need to be well versed at iif you want your IT management career to advance. This downloadable resource will step you through the services available, deployment models and security risks associated with Cloud Computing. Use this 185 page eBook and access to a unique eLearning experience to grow your career. •  The Complete IT Policy Kit •  The Strategic IT Planning Bundle •  The ITIL V3 Foundation Certification Kit IT Marketplace This e-mail is sent by: NarrowCast Group, LLC, 10400 Linn Station Road, Suite 100, Louisville, KY 40223 Copyright ©2003-2011 NarrowCast Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  CTO Edge Update •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise