Data Storage: Big Data Analytics Is Just Starting to Reach Its Potential: 10 Reasons Why

Big data—and the demands that its collection, processing and security put on IT resources—is on about every IT decision maker’s mind right about now. The so-called Four V’s of Big Data—volume, variety, velocity and value—are holding true as defining terms for this relatively new IT phenomenon. The amount of data is growing faster than we know, the types of data formats continue to increase, the data is moving faster than ever before and the analysis of it is proving to be surprisingly valuable for businesses in categories many had never dreamed of. This slide show touches on 10 important trends in this sector, particularly with regard to the popular batch-processing system Apache Hadoop. Our main resource is RainStor CEO John Bantleman, who has more than 20 years’ experience in the management of software companies, joined RainStor as chairman in 2004, and became CEO in 2007. RainStor is a database designed to manage big data for large enterprises.

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Data Storage: Big Data Analytics Is Just Starting to Reach Its Potential: 10 Reasons Why

Big data—and the demands that its collection, processing and security put on IT resources—is on about every IT decision maker’s mind right about now. The so-called Four V’s of Big Data—volume, variety, velocity and value—are holding true as defining terms for this relatively new IT phenomenon. The amount of data is growing faster than we know, the types of data formats continue to increase, the data is moving faster than ever before and the analysis of it is proving to be surprisingly valuable for businesses in categories many had never dreamed of. This slide show touches on 10 important trends in this sector, particularly with regard to the popular batch-processing system Apache Hadoop. Our main resource is RainStor CEO John Bantleman, who has more than 20 years’ experience in the management of software companies, joined RainStor as chairman in 2004, and became CEO in 2007. RainStor is a database designed to manage big data for large enterprises.

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IT Workers Are Happy, But Will Still Leave for Something Better

IT Workers Are Happy, But Will Still Leave for Something Better

Despite overall satisfaction with their current job situation, IT workers still show a readiness to jump ship when the next best thing comes along.

CIO — The majority of IT employees are engaged at work, loyal to their employers and inspired to do their best everyday, according to new survey findings from Randstad Technologies and Technisource. However, despite that, more than half (53 percent) are open to new employment opportunities, Think of it as the IT sector’s version of The Five Year Engagement, a new film about a couple that is happy to be engaged but put marriage plans on an indefinite hold.

"The takeaway for employers is that they use whatever means to create a strong bond with their employees by engaging, recognizing and empowering them in order to minimize attrition," said Bob Dickey, executive vice president of technologies at Randstad U.S.

The latest Randstad Engagement Index findings, conducted in February, surveyed 3,000 IT workers, nationwide. The Randstad Engagement Index measures the attitudes and perceptions impacting employee engagement within companies.

Looking at IT sector’s response to Randstad’s six components of engagement, the survey found the following:

  • 76 percent of IT employees are proud to work for their company
  • 63 percent of IT employees enjoy going to work every day
  • 75 percent of employees feel inspired to do their best each day
  • 68 percent of IT employees feel their efforts at work are recognized and valued
  • 67 percent indicate they trust their company leadership to make good decisions for the workforce
  • 67 percent of employees believe their company shares their values

Not only did the survey indicate that IT employees are clearly satisfied with their jobs and employers but 80 percent feel secure in their jobs, and they’re optimistic about the future:

  • More than three-fourths, or 77 percent, believe their company has a great future
  • 64 percent believe their company is making the right investments in their workforce for the future
  • 60 percent report being only a little or not at all concerned about having to take a pay cut

IT Workers Looking for the Next Best Thing

Despite the rosy relationship with their current job situation, IT respondents still showed a readiness to jump ship when the next best thing comes along. And, survey results indicate that 59 percent of respondents believe that those opportunities are on the horizon as more than half believe that the job market will pick up in 2012.

According to Dickey, opportunities in the IT sector are opening up with increasing pressure to find top talent. In fact, recent job demand in IT is for higher-level positions, such as project mangers, business architects and data analysts.

"What this tells us is that the economy is picking up as more companies start new project initiatives and make investments in infrastructure and development," he said. Dickey noted that improvements in IT job hiring is often a bell weather for overall employment growth.

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Modernization of IT: Solving a Legacy of Business Problems & Applications

Modernization of IT: Solving a Legacy of Business Problems & Applications

Are we building applications or supporting the business?

I talk to a lot of CIOs. I met with one in early May who oversees the IT operation of a $6 billion yearly entertainment-related company with about 7,000 employees. This top-notch exec was all about transforming a huge investment in existing IT infrastructure into a new dynamic, extensible and agile platform that would propel the business forward – not hold it back. This guy is busy figuring out how to keep a Boeing 777 up in the air while simultaneously re-fitting aircraft to make it best-in-class.

That’s what IT should be all about.

But in some organizations, it’s not. Either the message from the top gets lost as it percolates down through the IT organization, or the message from the top isn’t the right one to begin with. Either way, for those unfortunate IT organizations, IT is a ball-and-chain that holds the enterprise back, rather than gives it the capability to move forward.

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IT News March/April 2012

Creating culture of IT innovation includes rewarding failure – Computerworld lnkd.in/mfGKif

In IT Projects, More Needs to Be Less Too – Information Management Blogs Article lnkd.in/rFZ3CK

Personal and Enterprise IT Gains – Information Management Blogs Article lnkd.in/fu9VKq

Attention tech sales people: Don’t go around the CIO :: Editor’s Blog at WRAL Tech Wire lnkd.in/SbT5YF

IT Must Provide Enterprise Collaboration Tools Employees Will Use lnkd.in/nf6qa9

When Will the Offshore Flow of IT and Finance Jobs End? CIO.com lnkd.in/YcF2vP

Bring your own tech: IT’s missed opportunity | Byod – InfoWorld lnkd.in/sHUXmm

Offshoring Shrinks Number of IT Jobs, Study Says CIO.com lnkd.in/553iN6

CIOs Overcome Shortage of Business Analytics Talent lnkd.in/ukwwzv

India’s IT Firms Hire U.S. Workers As They Fight for Visas CIO.com lnkd.in/fDhir8

Small Business Data Backup Plans Found Lacking – Small and Medium Business IT – News & Reviews – Baseline.com lnkd.in/yHWPaZ

Execs to IT: Take these cloud services and manage them | Cloud storage – InfoWorld lnkd.in/t6AMGu

How to Get a Hot Job in Big Data CIO.com lnkd.in/DWHzEX

Getting A Recommendation From A Past Employer lnkd.in/AnAXJE

Offshoring Shrinks Number of IT Jobs, Study Says CIO.com lnkd.in/8RnBUz

Why the ‘personal cloud’ is no PC killer | Cloud computing – InfoWorld lnkd.in/7byGYH

IT Contractors Help Companies Meet Changing Work Needs

The demand for tech part-time work can also mean the economy is improving, says an IT staffing firm

Whether companies require specific tech talent for a project or need extra help meeting a business uptick brought by the recovering economy, corporate IT departments depend on the contract workforce.

For CIOs, temporary staff offer the experience required to complete a specific task without the need, and cost, of permanently keeping them on the payroll. IT staffing firms see contractors as helping companies stay flexible and meeting the work peaks and lulls that accompany a recovering economy. In either scenario, contractors have been, and will continue to be, in demand for enterprise IT, according to CIOs and hiring experts.

 

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Direct-hire Sr VOIP Engineer Opportunity with Great Company in Dallas, TX

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Direct-hire Sr VOIP Engineer Opportunity with Great Company in Dallas, TX

 

Summary
Our client is seeking an experienced VoIP Engineer excited to work for a growing company which provides Voice Over IP (VoIP), hosted PBX, voicemail and fax solutions. This position will be instrumental in assisting the company to deliver high levels of service availability.
Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for design implementation, planning and capacity management of the telephony environment.  Expertise required on Broadsoft Broadworks and Broadsoft M6 platforms.
  • Work together with the Implementation Coordinators, Network Engineers and Field Operations to troubleshoot and resolve persistent problems and escalated tier 2/3 issues.
  • Establish operational best practices and standard operating procedures for deployment, support, break-fix, and management (monitoring, inventory, sparing, etc).
  • Interact with cross functional teams from Network Engineering, Sales Engineering and Provisioning to review product requirements, functional specifications, and detailed designs.
  • Hold vendors & telecom carriers accountable to resolve systemic issues, bugs and abnormally high failure rates.
  • Project management of high and low level Telephony /Equipment related tasks.
  • Interop testing and network troubleshooting with the telecom carriers (Level3, XO, Paetec,  etc).
  • Assess utilization trends and make appropriate design and implementation recommendations to scale the architecture.
  • Assist in the planning and management of all aspects of Network and Telephony related projects.
  • Scale and deploy redundant collocation facilities.
  • Provide 24×7 on-call support and escalation to Network and Telephony carriers

Required Qualifications:

  • Cisco CCNA / CCDA
  • 5+ years experience engineering or supporting large scale production voice networks.
  • Understanding of Telephone Company & Carrier procedures, trouble shooting and documentation.
  • Deep understanding SIP, SCCP & RTP
  • Experience in supporting mission-critical 24×7 Telecom & Network services
  • Knowledge of telecom principals and terminology including DID*s Toll Free numbers, LATA OCN and NPA-NXX etc.
  • Self-starter with excellent troubleshooting skills and ability to prioritize tasks and organize workflow accordingly
  • Ability to grasp new concepts quickly
  • Ability to understand the problem and communicate it for others
  • Experience with voice protocols SIP/ISDN/SS7/MGCP/T.38

Desired Technology Skills:

  • PROTOCOLS *IP/VOIP: TCP/IP protocols suite, SIP/SDP, STUN, H323, MGCP, BGP, HSRP, OSPF, DNS, SIP, RTP
  • SECURITY: IPSec, VPN
  • LAN, AND WAN: Ethernet/VLAN/ Spanning tree, Frame Relay/ISDN
  • Linux or Sun Solaris administration experience with exposure to some of the following: Apache, DNS, Tomcat, MySQL, TimesTen, Java, C++, and PERL

Routing Protocols:

NETWORK ANALYSIS AND EMS: Wireshark/EtheReal
SOFTSWITCHES/GATEWAYS: Session Controllers/Proxies and Media Gateways, ACME, Broadsoft, M6

Network Equipment:

Cisco Routers 26xx, 28xx

Cisco Switches 29xx, 35xx

Polycom SIP Phones

Cisco VoIP Phones

Firewall Platforms (Cisco ASA)

Adtran 908e

Edgewater 4550

Industry Experience:

5+ years routing and switching (mastery level)
5+ years experience with Broadsoft / M6 switch environment
5+ years experience with VoIP including VoIP implementation experience
3+ years experience with SIP implementation

 

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    Direct-Hire Sr Voice Network Field Engineer Opportunity in Dallas-Fort Worth

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    Direct-hire Sr Voice Network Field Engineer Opportunity with Great Company

    Sr Voice Network Field Engineer – Dallas-Fort Worth, TX

    Dallas-Fort Worth Area

    Travel: up to 50% at times.

    Needs to have:

                    Working experience with Cisco Unified Communications products.

                    Cisco Call Processing, configuring & troubleshooting

                    Cisco Unity Voice Mail, configuring & troubleshooting

                    Active Cisco CCVP (CCNP-Voice) Certification

    Would like to have:

                    Working experience with Cisco UCCX or UCC, configuring & troubleshooting

                    Working experience with Cisco Telepresence

                    Working towards or have Cisco CCIE-Voice

                    Active Cisco CCNP

    Additional Responsibilities:

    This position will also be responsible for managing, installation and operating our internal network and handling any tickets opened by customers in the hosting environment.

    Education:

    Bachelor’s degree preferred

    Experience:

    5-10 years of working experience in the network field

     

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      Contract-to-hire Telecom Provisioning Analyst Opportunity in Addison, TX

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      Contract-to-hire Telecom Provisioning Analyst Opportunity in Addison, TX

       

      JOB SUMMARY:

      This position is responsible for all aspects of Telecom provisioning, compliance and analysis across the enterprise.  This individual will provide technical telecom expertise across a broad range of platforms and technologies and as such must have a broad range of technical knowledge and experience.  This position is responsible for coordinating telecom budgeting process, provisioning and scheduling of telephony systems, reconciling and auditing internal telecom invoices and engaging with carriers to address any deficiencies.

       

      Ensures the delivery of exceptional customer service by insuring company telephony systems, telecom  solutions, and Service Level Agreements are properly delivered or adhered to.  Implementing policies, procedures, and training that will help all Concentra Colleagues insure proper use of company telephony assets.   This individual will insure that these things are done while putting all customers (internal and external) first and displaying:

      o   A healing focus

      o   A selfless heart

      o   A tireless resolve

      All efforts must have the well-being of our customers, our colleagues, and our business as the top priority.

       

       

      MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

      Responsible for all aspects of security operations:

      ·         Assist with Telecom Audits and analysis

      ·         Assist coordinating budgeting process and scheduling for new phone systems

      ·         Assist coordinating equipment break/fixes resolution from a budgetary and ordering perspective

      ·         Order POTS lines and coordinates alarm and fax lines for medical centers

      ·         Coordinates LD codes assignments and scheduling

      ·         Assist with reviews and follows up with carriers regarding billing issues

      ·         Assist with reviews of all telecom related bills/expenses and invoices

      ·         Work closely with remote lead technicians during turn-ups and moves.

      ·         Provision orders to telecom carriers for access and local services

      ·         Reconciles and audits internal telecom bills for errors and disputes these errors with the carriers

      ·         Make sure that Service Level Agreements are adhered to by the carriers and constantly tracks and recommends new processes to rectify issues

      SCOPE MEASURES:

      Some people management may be required.

      Project management of Telecom initiatives is required.

       

      EDUCATION/CREDENTIALS:

      LIST THE MINIMUM EDUCATION AND/OR CREDENTIALS REQUIRED:

       

      Bachelors Degree preferred or related professional experience

       

      JOB-RELATED EXPERIENCE:

      ·         5+ years of telecom auditing and analysis experience in supporting telephony systems

      ·         Proven ability to communicate effectively to executive management required

      ·         5+ years experience in coordinating telecom equipment break/fix resolution

      ·         Understanding of telephony systems and the steps required for troubleshooting purposes

      ·         Working knowledge of Nortel BCMs and Avaya telephony systems

      ·         Previous experience in project managing carriers and telephony system providers to deliver solutions in a timely manner

      JOB-RELATED SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:

      ·         Excellent communication (both written and verbal),

      ·         Organizational and analytical skills

      ·         Possess the ability to interact professionally with Senior Leadership

      ·         Excellent leadership skills and the ability to unify and empower multiple groups to achieving the same goal

      ·         Ability to interact with technical staff across multiple systems and disciplines-High degree of self-sufficiency, ownership, and pride of deliverables

      ·         Project management skills

       

       

       

       

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