Links List 8.14.09

August 14th, 2009 by Valerie Barber

This list of employee complaints about their co-workers gave me a legitimate reason to watch some classic Terry Tate video. Happy Friday! They have nothing to do with Network Management, but they are super funny. Some great ones from the list:

- Employee is too suntanned

- Employee’s body is magnetic and keeps deactivating my magnetic access card

- Employee smells like road ramps (hunh?)

- Employee has bells on her shoes and it’s not the holidays (really, it’s okay during the holidays??)

NIST Lab Director Cita Furlani was interviewed about the nuts-and-bolts work of defining key government IT standards and working with federal agencies to adopt and implement them. In addition to cybersecurity and cloud computing, she discussed the recently released 800-53, Revision 3 “Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations”.

The 10 Must-Have Attributes of a Next-Gen IT Manager summarizes the different skills needed to cover a company’s infrastructure, including technology visionary, security cop, dashboard driver, compliance coordinator, green thinker, mentor.

Gartner’s 2009 “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies” reports that cloud computing is a transformational technology that will deliver sweeping changes in IT’s focus and capabilities.  Not surprising, but their analysis and “hype graph” are quite interesting. They note that the levels of hype around cloud computing in the IT industry are deafening, not even counting the extra noise vendors are generating. They do emphasize that cloud computing vendors need to have a strategy now, and enterprise IT organizations should be studying the technology. Check out their five stages of hype range from the “technology trigger”, to the “peak of inflated expectations”, down the “trough of disillusionment”, then up the “slope of enlightenment” to the “plateau of productivity”.

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