Recent Articles
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Job Market Crisis: Ignorant Human Resources
What I see is a systemic problem. HR folks and recruiters put square pegs in square holes. They don’t really understand specific job skills in most cases. They understand word matches. This problem gets amplified in today’s world of web applications and database sorts for candidates. Many of the very best candidates are "left out"…
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Job Market Crisis: Trouble with Training
Simply put, training should be absolutely implicit in the cost of tech business. Your own people will be irrelevant in two years without it. The technology practitioners on the ground are chasing the fastest moving employment skill set on the planet—doctors, lawyers, accountants. Who else has to maintain the pace of the tech industry? Today’s…
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Without Wi-Fi, Mini-PCs Not as Magical
NEW YORK (Reuters) – As personal computers go, the new rash of ultra-mini laptops are full of geeky goodness. Light, portable and powerful, they are almost perfect. Almost. But like a rowboat in your backyard or a flat-screen TV in a blackout, most of these new PCs suffer when removed from a critical element. Specifically…
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Novell’s New Channel Chief Targets Faster Transformation
Novell has shaken up its channel ranks—again—naming Javier Colado to the newly created position of general manager of partners. His goal: accelerate Novell’s channel business and generate more revenue through partners. Colado, most recently general manager and vice president for Novell’s western Europe, Middle East and Africa operations, sales and marketing, will report directly to…
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Reynolds Resigns from Trend Micro Channel Chief Post
Nancy Reynolds, the face of the North America channel at Trend Micro for the last five years, unexpectedly resigned from the number-three software security company to become vice president of world wide channel sales at Palo Alto Networks, a firewall startup. Trend Micro—which boasts a channel program of nearly 12,000 partners—was quick to react to…
