The purpose of figure a web page can be professional or personal. Web development today is very suitable for the advanced technology in use. Increasing websites and web usage in the modern world indicate the benefits of software engineering towards web development. Web provides plenty space to the user to work on and provides an option to the users for having a websites.

Purpose of web development:

Web hosting is done for the purpose of sharing idea at any level. It started at academic level and continued towards persons and professionals. Nowadays scripting in PHP Programming and .net Programming has become so easy that everyone can design their own personal web page. With a good web development, a company can make the web to be a marketing passage for advertising and purchasing services and products of all kind.

What does web development team do?

Web Development Team is given the job of charging and rescripting the theme devise by the designing team for the website. Web Development demands understanding of processes related to the web development. Web Development Team has the responsibility for giving a new face to the finished website. Assessment requires technical process and subjectivity. Web Developers independently work for bringing their style into their creation and the mixture of the entire thought process is used to power the web page.

IT society with the advancement of technology has lined the way for making web page simple for a layman. Web Creation and web development process is very easy for the ease of use of many software tools and the quality guarantee provided by them.

Cost factors plays a very great role in web designing and procedure related to its developing. Global Business concerns forms a budget especially for the purpose of web development. They look for the best available deal at the least of expenses. Sub-continent Companies like India provide the web developing mantra to all concerns around the world at a very reasonable rate.

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Web Development

The Author is an Executive with www.whizkraft.com

Well…In SEO there is many factors and u may get many competitors not only for Search Engine Optimization but also competitor for your site.

Let’s begin: What is ‘competition’?

Competition is described as “one that competes”, “a challenger”, “selling or buying goods or services in the same market as another”, and even down to the natural level – “a creature that lives in competition with another”.

SEO & Web – Competitive Landscape.

More and more, web surfers are using search engines to find companies, services and goods. Big and smaller companies are using search engine optimization and search engine marketing techniques to strike their competitors. On the Internet, we are dealing with practical entities – and we all compete in increasingly tougher and user-aware market places. Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing focuses on building traffic and allowing you to influence your websites, services and products.

What options exist for creating income online?

A) Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing are two incredible ways in which you can get visibility on the Internet. As well, you can and should include email marketing strategies, with a complete CRM and back office process.

B) Affiliate Marketing Programs. Join and promote these. Create one for your company – with potentially exciting and profitable results.

C) Adsense is a complicated affiliate online advertising program from Google. Admiring Adsense Training Videos are worth a look. However, without search engine marketing and search engine optimization, you are missing out on other huge opportunities for shattering the competition and making large sums online.

D) Adwords is a break-through ad system from Google that can bring traffic to your site within 1/2 hour! The complimentary Adwords email courses show ways to beat the system, and reduce the disturbance on your part. It can get exclusive fast.

For More Information

SEO

Search Engine Optimization

Web Designing

The Author is an Executive with www.whizkraft.com

A partir da experiência em terceirização, especialistas podem ajudar as empresas a reduzir o tempo e os recursos necessários em todo o processo de contratação de um fornecedor.

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No momento de escolher e contratar um prestador de serviços terceirizados de TI, muitas empresas têm recorrido à ajuda de especialistas em outsourcing. Esses profissionais prometem reduzir o tempo e o dinheiro gastos durante os processos de escolha do fornecedor, definição dos níveis de serviço e negociação de preços e de contratos.

Well…In SEO there is many factors and u may get many competitors not only for Search Engine Optimization but also competitor for your site.

Let’s begin: What is ‘competition’?

Competition is described as “one that competes”, “a challenger”, “selling or buying goods or services in the same market as another”, and even down to the natural level – “a creature that lives in competition with another”.

SEO & Web – Competitive Landscape.

More and more, web surfers are using search engines to find companies, services and goods. Big and smaller companies are using search engine optimization and search engine marketing techniques to strike their competitors. On the Internet, we are dealing with practical entities – and we all compete in increasingly tougher and user-aware market places. Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing focuses on building traffic and allowing you to influence your websites, services and products.

What options exist for creating income online?
A) Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing are two incredible ways in which you can get visibility on the Internet. As well, you can and should include email marketing strategies, with a complete CRM and back office process.

B) Affiliate Marketing Programs. Join and promote these. Create one for your company – with potentially exciting and profitable results.

C) Adsense is a complicated affiliate online advertising program from Google. Admiring Adsense Training Videos are worth a look. However, without search engine marketing and search engine optimization, you are missing out on other huge opportunities for shattering the competition and making large sums online.

D) Adwords is a break-through ad system from Google that can bring traffic to your site within 1/2 hour! The complimentary Adwords email courses show ways to beat the system, and reduce the disturbance on your part. It can get exclusive fast.

For More Information

SEO

Search Engine Optimization

Web Designing

The Author is an Executive with www.whizkraft.com

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Well…In SEO there is many factors and u may get many competitors not only for Search Engine Optimization but also competitor for your site.

Let’s begin: What is ‘competition’?

Competition is described as “one that competes”, “a challenger”, “selling or buying goods or services in the same market as another”, and even down to the natural level – “a creature that lives in competition with another”.

SEO & Web – Competitive Landscape.

More and more, web surfers are using search engines to find companies, services and goods. Big and smaller companies are using search engine optimization and search engine marketing techniques to strike their competitors. On the Internet, we are dealing with practical entities – and we all compete in increasingly tougher and user-aware market places. Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing focuses on building traffic and allowing you to influence your websites, services and products.

What options exist for creating income online?
A) Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing are two incredible ways in which you can get visibility on the Internet. As well, you can and should include email marketing strategies, with a complete CRM and back office process.

B) Affiliate Marketing Programs. Join and promote these. Create one for your company – with potentially exciting and profitable results.

C) Adsense is a complicated affiliate online advertising program from Google. Admiring Adsense Training Videos are worth a look. However, without search engine marketing and search engine optimization, you are missing out on other huge opportunities for shattering the competition and making large sums online.

D) Adwords is a break-through ad system from Google that can bring traffic to your site within 1/2 hour! The complimentary Adwords email courses show ways to beat the system, and reduce the disturbance on your part. It can get exclusive fast.

For More Information

SEO

Search Engine Optimization

Web Designing

The Author is an Executive with www.whizkraft.com

http://sweton.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/social-networking-sites-has-phasing-out-the-blogs/

http://sweton.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/make-your-own-social-network-by-online-social-networking-sites/

http://sweton.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/online-social-networking-sites-can-help-your-carrier/

http://reetwensil.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/build-your-own-social-network/

http://reetwensil.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/expand-your-social-network-and-get-benefits/

http://reetwensil.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/search-engine-optimization-%e2%80%93-an-important-term/

http://reetwensil.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/some-suggestions-while-hiring-any-seo-services/

The success of your business does not depend completely on SEO: This is one of the most important points. Do not rely on SEO for generating more revenues and increasing your business reach among the possible buyers. A Search engine optimization can drive targeted traffic to your website, however he cannot force visitors to buy from you whether its service or any product. The actual SALE completely depends on your product line, service levels you offer, after sales service, product / service pricing and many other factors. So it’s unfair to hold SEO professional liable if you are not getting preferred jump in sales even after increase in traffic to your website.

Here are some factors about SEO services, and these factors are about of my past experience when I was a SEO executive.

• Have complete faith in SEO professional:

This point means you have to keep full faith on SEO professionals because he/she knows all the main points and factors about Search engine optimization. So try to rely on him/her and let him do his work in his own way.

• Be patient with the results and be realistic:

SEO is not a combine wire which can activate a chain reaction and your site will be flooded with huge traffic in a matter of time. You need to be patient with SEO techniques. It takes time to apply SEO as it’s a scientific approach and can be implemented after taking a series of steps.

• Be ready to pay for quality work:

Choose a SEO professional / SEO company based on the track record. Once zero in on any professional based on the capabilities, then be ready to pay for the quality work which you expect from him. “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys”. So my advice is be careful while picking SEO and be ready to pay for quality work.

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Outsourcing

The Author is an Executive with www.whizkraft.com

Well…I think everybody understands the term of SEO, the full form of SEO is search engine optimization. You the benefits, Advantages we can get through SEO. Well SEO is basically we do to provide a rank of a website in our famous search engines.

Search engine optimization is very important to the success of a website but unfortunately, it is a very confusing thing for new website owners. Many feel like they can beat out on their own without using professional search engine optimization services while others feel that search engine optimization is best left to the experts. While search engine optimization is not easy and
techniques for getting top-ranking are ever changing, a continuing commitment to learning about search engine optimization will save your time and money as well as improving the performance of your website.

Getting top ranking in the search engines through effective search engine optimization is like free advertising. It is the most reasonable way to make loads of traffic to your website. Traffic combined with good sales copy and a quick loading website converts browsers to buyers and can skyrocket your sales.

There are a couple of things that seem to remain reliable in search engine optimization techniques. Those are the usage of keywords, keyword phrases and obtaining link popularity with relevant links coming into your website. The main advantage of search engine optimization is that having a top- ranked site in the major search engines is effective, free advertising. The disadvantages are that it may take several weeks after you submit your site for the search engines to index it and continuing maintenance is required to ensure that your search engine optimization efforts achieve the results you want.

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Search Engine Optimization

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The Author is an Executive with www.whizkraft.com

After a successful business trip to see a client in Newquay yesterday, I took the chance to sit back on the plane home and read Growing Business magazine – a publication I have recently subscribed to, but not managed to get round to reading.

The strap line of the publication uses is ‘Energising Entrepreneurs’, and it certainly did that!

It can be lonely being an entrepreneur, whether it is just you, or even if you employ a small/large team. You have questions about expansion, getting turnover from X to Y, marketing, IT, mentoring?

Who can I talk to?

Some of the comments made by the contributors rang true – I recognised a lot of them from questions client’s of Paper Mountain Solutions ask.

The head line article in this month’s publication is on Matthew Riley of Daisy Group plc who hit the nail on the head, which is partly why the business has been scalable so quickly:
“We incorporated the company in February and didn’t start trading until the following September. I realised we needed to do our housekeeping first.

If you haven’t got the back office, the standards and processes in place, its just to fall off at the other end.”

This is exactly what Paper Mountain Solutions does by providing clients with an outsourcing solution to this back office function.

I also like Riley’s comments on mentoring – he has the fortune to call up on Sir Philip Green after securing finance following winning the 2007 Bank of Scotland Entrepreneur Challenge.

Riley is not the only entrepreneur to make reference about the fact that is incredibly useful to have someone you can bounce ideas off in the publication. This comes back to my original point about it being lonely being an entrepreneur – many of Paper Mountain Solutions‘ clients phone up for a ‘chat’ about ideas – they bounce information off us to help with strategic decisions.

If as an entrepreneur you need some energising, check out Growing Business. It is now on my monthly list of must reads!

Follow Paul on twitter at paul_smalley

Sitting in India, I am having a delicious self made lunch and lying comfortably on my bed with this laptop in hand and typing this post. It is a sunny weather outside and the atmosphere is just so cool and relaxed. And this has been made possible on a Thursday because I have a holiday today. You ask why? Well, because it is Thanksgiving in the US and we have all(those in the outsourcing business) coordinated our calendars with the Americans. Funny isn’t it.

So before this day, when Thanksgiving came to me as a blessing, the only thing which I knew about it was that people eat turkeys on this day. Huge turkeys served at the family dinner table and as the name suggests give thanks. What is the history or the significance or the origin of it all is unknown to me. I made a search and found some stuff on the wiki and History.com. Check out : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

and http://www.history.com/content/thanksgiving

Apparently, Canada and USA celebrate it on different days.

Well, whatever be it, I am pretty thankful on this thanksgiving for the 2 day holiday that I am going to enjoy.

What does a qualified IT Manager, Network Engineer or Network Administrator look like?

Gregory J. Masley CNE, CNA, MCSE

17375 Brookhurst Street #18

Fountain Valley, CA 92708

719-649-7451

greg@masleyassociates.com

http://www.masleyassociates.com

http://www.masleyassociates.info

http://www.computerorangecounty.com

http://www.computerconsultantorangecounty.com

http://www.itmanagersresumeinorangecounty.com

We are asked frequently about the difference between the average high school “geek” that most computer consulting companies use and a professional IT person that Masley And Associates uses.

While it is true there are some very basic PC issues which both types of IT people could easily fix, there is a vast difference when it comes to support and more complex issues.

We only use the top Network Engineers and Network Administrators yet we offer them to our clients for the same low cost. We know how to find and retain the top IT personnel because we are the top IT personnel.

Most other computer consulting companies are owned and run by non-technical people with sales, marketing or business backgrounds while Masley And Associates is owned by a network engineer and administrator with multiple certifications and thirteen years hands-on experience in the field. Who would you rather have managing your IT Department; an experienced IT Professional or a Sales and Marketing guy?

We have twelve years of experience in IT, Management and multiple Certifications in networking including Microsoft and Novell – CNE, CNA, MCSE. We have five accredited, professional, certified computer technicians on our staff ready to serve you. Here is what a qualified IT Manager, Network Engineer, Network Administrator resume looks like. You will notice there are certifications, real world experience and wide exposure to many different technologies:

OBJECTIVE

• IT Manager – To aggressively and successfully manage Local and Wide Area Network Departments and Staff to provide maintenance, troubleshooting and support for reliability and growth in Orange County California.

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Twelve years of Network Engineering experience, with a demonstrated ability to quickly learn and integrate new technology in a variety of industries.
• Proven expertise in various network technologies, detailed below.
• Certified in both Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows networks.
• Proven success in implementing management, operations, technical and interpersonal skills to increase productivity, reliability and teamwork to benefit the company.
• Team Lead for security, repair, installation, migration, and maintenance of large-scaleWindows and Novell network of over 7000 end users.
• Hands on experience in Wireless Networking, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Optical Networking, Switching/Bridging  (VLAN, Spanning Tree), VPNs, LAN/WAN/MAN, TCP/IP Protocol, IP Addressing and Subnetting, IP Access Lists, Routing Protocols, Token Ring, ATM, Frame Relay, HP OpenView NNM, Cisco Works for Switched Internetworks, Resource Manager Essentials, Cisco Security Management Center (PIX, IDS), Microsoft Visio, WebNM, IBM compatible computers, Windows 2000/NT/XP, Remote Desktop Management, Microsoft Office 2000/XP, Norton, Remedy, Compupic Pro, Network Security, MicroStation (95/SE/J/8)
• Hands on experience with Cisco 2600/3600/4000/7200/7500 series routers, Cisco Catalyst 1900/2900/5000/5500 series switch, Cisco 3550 Multilayer Switch, Cisco PIX Firewall, Cisco IDS 515E, CAD/CAM Systems, Netopia Routers, IBM Workstations and Servers, Printers
• Hands on experience with Microsoft Windows Enterprise Server, Small Business Server and Workstation NT through 2003, Novell 3.1-5.1, UNIX, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, AutoCAD, MAPICS, Rhumba Reflections, ISA Server
• Programming experience in Visual Basic, Basic, COBOL, FORTRAN, SQL, Oracle and DBASE
• MCSE, CNA, and CNE Certified
• United States Department Of Defense SECRET Security Clearance 2005

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MASLEY AND ASSOCIATES

Orange County, CA 1994 To Present

Senior Computer Network Consultant

• 2GWLAN for Harriss and General Dynamics for Peterson Airforce Base In Colorado and Luke Airforce Base in Arizona. Designed 2 GW Wireless LAN that went into both Airforce bases and he also implemented them. Worked with Aruba Controllers, Aruba Access Points, RADIUS and TACACS Servers, used Motorola LAN Planner to do the design.
• Network Engineer responsible for system configuration, communications, and installation of hardware, operating systems, and software applications.
• Installed and maintained entire computer networks for major Southern California and Colorado companies including:
• JNIC Missile Defense Agency Schreiver Air Force Base Department Of Defense, Net Solutions, Planet Network, Analysts International, Accucode, Capitol Records, Unihealth Insurance, Fuji Bank, UNOCOL 76, Price Company, Mellon Financial, Mallinckrodt Medical, Shiley Medical, AJS Accounting Service, Online Connecting Point, Sandpiper Computer, Nadek, ARC, Farmers Insurance, Classic Homes, Horizon, Qualtek Manufacturing, Powell Manufacturing, RL Holdings, Gart Sports, The Sports Authority, COACT, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Anaheim Memorial Medical Center, Computer Support Network and Manpower Technical.
• Performed nationwide wireless network upgrade for The Sports Authority and Gart Sports on multi-tier network with over 1000 users.
• Migrated St. Joseph’s Hospital from Novell to Windows 2000 Server with Exchange 2000 on multi-site network with over 2000 users.
• Migrated Anaheim Memorial Hospital from Windows 98, NT Server, and Exchange 5.5 to Windows XP, 2000 Server, and Exchange 2000 on multi-site network with over 4000 users.
• Designed and documented data and voice networks from the ground up.
• Trained customers and managers on system capabilities and usage.
• Performed Systems Administration on Windows Servers and Clients for Local and Wide Area Networks.
• Configured and tested all necessary network platforms under extreme time constraints resulting in successful customer acceptance of required test bed network.
• Established network security measures in order to support defense agency accreditation for The Department Of Defense at Schreiver Air Force Base JNIC Missile Defense Agency.
• Recommended and implemented network wide security management solution, including Firewall policies and configuration, router access-lists, and agent based network monitoring.

MALLINCKRODT MEDICAL

Irvine, CA 1994 To 1999

Network Administrator

• Managed all aspects of several network implementations including network planning, design, testing, documentation, deployment and maintenance of Windows based system.
• Responsible for complete support, installation, maintenance and training for all network and system components.
• Developed training and support plans for 400-user network.
• Lead effort to migrate Novell based Microsoft and CCMail servers with upgraded Windows NT based Exchange Servers. Included development and implementation of plan to provide remote access to e-mail and database servers via Windows NT RAS.
• Administered Windows NT, Back Office, Exchange, RAS, AS400s, MAPICS, JD Edwards, Rhumba and Reflections.

COMPUTER SUPPORT NETWORK

Huntington Beach, CA 1993-1994

General Manager

• Responsible for hardware and software system configuration, installation, repair and maintenance on Microsoft and Novell networks, PCs and printers.
• Managed large team with diverse backgrounds to consistently provide increased customer satisfaction and system performance.
• Supervised staff of seven computer and network technicians
• Managed daily company operations and client accounts.
• Designed, configured and installed Novell Networks and PC systems.
• Provided technical and cost considerations for proposals to satisfy customers.
• Sourced vendors and provided on-site technical support on workstations and network hardware and software

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION AND SECURITY CLEARANCE

Education:

• California State University Fullerton

Novell Certified Network Administration and

Engineering Program – Graduated in the top 10% of the JTPA Grant Class of 93

Certification:

• CNE
• CNA
• MCSE

Security Clearance:

• SECRET, United States Department Of Defense 2005

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Networking: Wireless Networking
• 10/100/1000 Ethernet
• Optical Networking
• Switching/Bridging (VLAN, Spanning Tree)
• VPNs, LAN/WAN/MAN
• TCP/IP Protocol
• IP Addressing and Subnetting
• IP Access Lists, Routing Protocols
• Token Ring, ATM
• Frame Relay
• HP OpenView NNM
• Cisco Works for Switched Internetworks
• Resource Manager Essentials
• Cisco Security Management Center (PIX, IDS)
• Microsoft Visio
• WebNM
• IBM compatible computers
• Windows Enterprise Server, Small Business Server and Workstation 2003/2000/NT/XP/Vista
• Exchange 5.5/2000/2003
• Remote Desktop Management
• Microsoft Office 2003/2000/XP
• Windows Vista
• Norton
• Remedy
• Compupic Pro
• Network Security
• MicroStation
• (95/SE/J/8) HP Openview
• OSPF,BGP,VLAN,IPSEC, routing and bridging protocols

Hardware:

• Cisco 2600/3600/4000/7200/7500 series routers
• Cisco Catalyst 1900/2900/5000/5500 series switch
• Cisco 3550 Multilayer Switch
• Cisco PIX Firewall
• Cisco IDS 515E
• CAD/CAM Systems
• Netopia Routers
• IBM Workstations and Servers
• Printers

Software/OS:

• Microsoft Windows (all versions)
• Novell 3.1-5.1
• UNIX
• Microsoft Exchange
• Microsoft Office
• Word Perfect
• AutoCAD
• MAPICS
• Rhumba Reflections
• ISA Server RAID Storage Devices SAN Storage Devices

Programming:

• Visual Basic, Basic
• COBOL
• FORTRAN
• SQL
• Oracle and DBASE
• HTML

What this means to our clients is greater efficiency. While it would be no problem to use a high school “geek” to add memory to your home computer, most businesses would not want a high school “geek” working on their business network yet sometimes that is exactly what happens to some unfortunate businesses.

So how does an unknowing business find true IT professionals who are competent and capable of working on their systems and network?

1.   Ask exactly which ceritifications they have and make sure they are certified in the “Top Three” – Microsoft, Novell and Cisco(they take years of study and practice to obtain). Most computer consulting companies find high school “geeks” willing to work for $20 per hour or less, get them their A+ certification(a one-day, basic PC knowledge test) and charge you more than $75 per hour for them! The truth is most other computer consulting companies are only qualified to replace memory or adapter cards in a PC.

2.   Ask for references.

3.   Ask for a guarantee.

4.   Check BBB.com The Better Business Bureau for the company’s rating.

5.   Ask how long they have been working in the IT industry and a description of some of the larger, more complex projects they have worked on.

The bottom line is your network is critical to your business and belongs in the hands of the professionals in order to save you time, money and effort. We are the professionals. Think of us as your outsourced IT department. Contact us today we are always available for hire.

Contact Us

Gregory J. Masley CNE, CNA, MCSE

17375 Brookhurst Street #18

Fountain Valley, CA 92708

719-649-7451

greg@masleyassociates.com

http://www.masleyassociates.com

http://www.masleyassociates.info

http://www.computerorangecounty.com

http://www.computerconsultantorangecounty.com

http://www.itmanagersresumeinorangecounty.com

REFERENCES:

Qualified, IT Director, IT Manager, CIO, CTO, Network Administrator, Orange County, California, Resume, Reference, Example:

Gregory J. Masley CNE, CNA, MCSE

17375 Brookhurst Street #18

Fountain Valley, CA 92708

719-649-7451

greg@masleyassociates.com

http://www.masleyassociates.com

http://www.masleyassociates.info

http://www.computerorangecounty.com

http://www.computerconsultantorangecounty.com

http://www.itmanagersresumeorangecounty.com

OBJECTIVE

• IT Director, IT Manager, Network Administrator, Network Engineer – To aggressively and successfully manage Local and Wide Area Computer Network Departments and Staff to provide maintenance, troubleshooting and support for reliability and growth in Orange County, California. I have multiple IT certifications and 13 years experience in IT Management, Network Administration and Network Engineering.
• If you can use my IT skills and services in your organization please contact me directly and if not please pass my information on to your friends, associates and colleagues who may have a need for me in Orange County, California.

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Twelve years of Network Engineering experience, with a demonstrated ability to quickly learn and integrate new technology in a variety of industries.
• Proven expertise in various network technologies, detailed below.
• Certified in both Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows networks.
• Proven success in implementing management, operations, technical and interpersonal skills to increase productivity, reliability and teamwork to benefit the company.
• Team Lead for security, repair, installation, migration, and maintenance of large-scaleWindows and Novell network of over 7000 end users.
• Hands on experience in Wireless Networking, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Optical Networking, Switching/Bridging  (VLAN, Spanning Tree), VPNs, LAN/WAN/MAN, TCP/IP Protocol, IP Addressing and Subnetting, IP Access Lists, Routing Protocols, Token Ring, ATM, Frame Relay, HP OpenView NNM, Cisco Works for Switched Internetworks, Resource Manager Essentials, Cisco Security Management Center (PIX, IDS), Microsoft Visio, WebNM, IBM compatible computers, Windows 2000/NT/XP, Remote Desktop Management, Microsoft Office 2000/XP, Norton, Remedy, Compupic Pro, Network Security, MicroStation (95/SE/J/8)
• Hands on experience with Cisco 2600/3600/4000/7200/7500 series routers, Cisco Catalyst 1900/2900/5000/5500 series switch, Cisco 3550 Multilayer Switch, Cisco PIX Firewall, Cisco IDS 515E, CAD/CAM Systems, Netopia Routers, IBM Workstations and Servers, Printers
• Hands on experience with Microsoft Windows Enterprise Server, Small Business Server and Workstation NT through 2003, Novell 3.1-5.1, UNIX, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, AutoCAD, MAPICS, Rhumba Reflections, ISA Server
• Programming experience in Visual Basic, Basic, COBOL, FORTRAN, SQL, Oracle and DBASE
• MCSE, CNA, and CNE Certified
• United States Department Of Defense SECRET Security Clearance 2005

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MASLEY AND ASSOCIATES

Colorado Springs, CO 1994 To Present

Senior Computer Network Consultant

• 2GWLAN for Harris and General Dynamics for Peterson Airforce Base In Colorado and Luke Airforce Base in Arizona. Designed 2 GW Wireless LAN that went into both Airforce bases and he also implemented them. Worked with Aruba Controllers, Aruba Access Points, RADIUS and TACACS Servers, used Motorola LAN Planner to do the design.

• Network Engineer responsible for system configuration, communications, and installation of hardware, operating systems, and software applications.
• Installed and maintained entire computer networks for major Southern California and Colorado companies including:
• JNIC Missile Defense Agency Schreiver Air Force Base Department Of Defense, Net Solutions, Planet Network, Analysts International, Accucode, Capitol Records, Unihealth Insurance, Fuji Bank, UNOCOL 76, Price Company, Mellon Financial, Mallinckrodt Medical, Shiley Medical, AJS Accounting Service, Online Connecting Point, Sandpiper Computer, Nadek, ARC, Farmers Insurance, Classic Homes, Horizon, Qualtek Manufacturing, Powell Manufacturing, RL Holdings, Gart Sports, The Sports Authority, COACT, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Anaheim Memorial Medical Center, Computer Support Network and Manpower Technical.
• Performed nationwide wireless network upgrade for The Sports Authority and Gart Sports on multi-tier network with over 1000 users.
• Migrated St. Joseph’s Hospital from Novell to Windows 2000 Server with Exchange 2000 on multi-site network with over 2000 users.
• Migrated Anaheim Memorial Hospital from Windows 98, NT Server, and Exchange 5.5 to Windows XP, 2000 Server, and Exchange 2000 on multi-site network with over 4000 users.
• Designed and documented data and voice networks from the ground up.
• Trained customers and managers on system capabilities and usage.
• Performed Systems Administration on Windows Servers and Clients for Local and Wide Area Networks.
• Configured and tested all necessary network platforms under extreme time constraints resulting in successful customer acceptance of required test bed network.
• Established network security measures in order to support defense agency accreditation for The Department Of Defense at Schreiver Air Force Base JNIC Missile Defense Agency.
• Recommended and implemented network wide security management solution, including Firewall policies and configuration, router access-lists, and agent based network monitoring.
• Administered and supported Citrix network environment for Classic Homes including building new Citrix servers and load balancing

MALLINCKRODT MEDICAL

Irvine, CA 1994 To 1999

Network Administrator

• Managed all aspects of several network implementations including network planning, design, testing, documentation, deployment and maintenance of Windows based system.
• Responsible for complete support, installation, maintenance and training for all network and system components.
• Developed training and support plans for 400-user network.
• Lead effort to migrate Novell based Microsoft and CCMail servers with upgraded Windows NT based Exchange Servers. Included development and implementation of plan to provide remote access to e-mail and database servers via Windows NT RAS.
• Administered Windows NT, Back Office, Exchange, RAS, AS400s, MAPICS, JD Edwards, Rhumba and Reflections.

COMPUTER SUPPORT NETWORK

Huntington Beach, CA 1993-1994

General Manager

• Responsible for hardware and software system configuration, installation, repair and maintenance on Microsoft and Novell networks, PCs and printers.
• Managed large team with diverse backgrounds to consistently provide increased customer satisfaction and system performance.
• Supervised staff of seven computer and network technicians
• Managed daily company operations and client accounts.
• Designed, configured and installed Novell Networks and PC systems.
• Provided technical and cost considerations for proposals to satisfy customers.
• Sourced vendors and provided on-site technical support on workstations and network hardware and software

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION AND SECURITY CLEARANCE

Education:

• California State University Fullerton

      Novell Certified Network Administration and

      Engineering Program – Graduated in the top 10% of the JTPA Grant Class of 93

Certification:

• CNE
• CNA
• MCSE

Security Clearance:

• SECRET, United States Department Of Defense 2005

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The success of your business does not depend completely on SEO: This is one of the most important points. Do not rely on SEO for generating more revenues and increasing your business reach among the possible buyers. A Search engine optimization can drive targeted traffic to your website, however he cannot force visitors to buy from you whether its service or any product. The actual SALE completely depends on your product line, service levels you offer, after sales service, product / service pricing and many other factors. So it’s unfair to hold SEO professional liable if you are not getting preferred jump in sales even after increase in traffic to your website.

Here are some factors about SEO services, and these factors are about of my past experience when I was a SEO executive.

• Have complete faith in SEO professional:

This point means you have to keep full faith on SEO professionals because he/she knows all the main points and factors about Search engine optimization. So try to rely on him/her and let him do his work in his own way.

• Be patient with the results and be realistic:

SEO is not a combine wire which can activate a chain reaction and your site will be flooded with huge traffic in a matter of time. You need to be patient with SEO techniques. It takes time to apply SEO as it’s a scientific approach and can be implemented after taking a series of steps.

• Be ready to pay for quality work:

Choose a SEO professional / SEO company based on the track record. Once zero in on any professional based on the capabilities, then be ready to pay for the quality work which you expect from him. “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys”. So my advice is be careful while picking SEO and be ready to pay for quality work.

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Well…I think everybody understands the term of SEO, the full form of SEO is search engine optimization. You the benefits, Advantages we can get through SEO. Well SEO is basically we do to provide a rank of a website in our famous search engines.

Search engine optimization is very important to the success of a website but unfortunately, it is a very confusing thing for new website owners. Many feel like they can beat out on their own without using professional search engine optimization services while others feel that search engine optimization is best left to the experts. While search engine optimization is not easy and
techniques for getting top-ranking are ever changing, a continuing commitment to learning about search engine optimization will save your time and money as well as improving the performance of your website.

Getting top ranking in the search engines through effective search engine optimization is like free advertising. It is the most reasonable way to make loads of traffic to your website. Traffic combined with good sales copy and a quick loading website converts browsers to buyers and can skyrocket your sales.

There are a couple of things that seem to remain reliable in search engine optimization techniques. Those are the usage of keywords, keyword phrases and obtaining link popularity with relevant links coming into your website. The main advantage of search engine optimization is that having a top- ranked site in the major search engines is effective, free advertising. The disadvantages are that it may take several weeks after you submit your site for the search engines to index it and continuing maintenance is required to ensure that your search engine optimization efforts achieve the results you want.

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David Farr is the CEO of Emerson Electric, a $1.7-billion-dollar company heavily involved in manufacturing. What does he think about the job that the Democrats are doing in Washington?

In this Bloomberg article, he explains:

Emerson Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer David Farr said the U.S. government is hurting manufacturers with regulation and taxes and his company will continue to focus on growth overseas.

“Washington is doing everything in their manpower, capability, to destroy U.S. manufacturing,” Farr said today in Chicago at a Baird Industrial Outlook conference. “Cap and trade, medical reform, labor rules.”

Emerson, the maker of electrical equipment and InSinkErator garbage disposals with $20.9 billion in sales for the year ended September, will keep expanding in emerging markets, which represented 32 percent of revenue in 2009. About 36 percent of manufacturing is now in “best-cost countries” up from 21 percent in 2003, according to slides accompanying his speech.

Companies will create jobs in India and China, “places where people want the products and where the governments welcome you to actually do something,” Farr said.

The unemployment rate in the U.S. jumped to 10.2 percent in October, the highest level since 1983. Emerson, which Farr said employs about 125,000 people worldwide, has eliminated more than 20,000 jobs since the end of 2008 to lower expenses.

“What do you think I am going to do?” Farr asked. “I’m not going to hire anybody in the United States. I’m moving. They are doing everything possible to destroy jobs.”

[...]Mature markets such as the U.S., Western Europe and Japan continue to decline in importance and the company will keep investing in emerging markets, Farr said during the presentation.

“We as a company today are putting our best people, our best technology and our best investment in these marketplaces to grow,” he said. “My job is to grow that top line, grow my earnings, grow my cash flow and grow my returns to the shareholders. My job is not to shrink and roll over for the U.S. government.”

[...]In renewable and alternative-energy markets, Emerson had 2009 sales of $50 million and plans to increase that to more than $800 million in five years.

“But you are not going to see Emerson going out there with fancy commercials or sitting at the right hand of some president, talking about this,” Farr said. “We do it.”

When it comes to manufacturing jobs, the only person whose opinion counts is the CEO of the manufacturing company, because he makes the hiring decisions.

Why Obamanomics will not improve the economy

I noticed the Bloomberg article because it was linked to this American Thinker article, which was linked at Marshall Art’s blog.

The American Thinker article analyzes why Obamanomics will not improve the economy.

Excerpt:

The reason that Obamanomics will not and cannot work is because an economy cannot be managed from the top. Economics is a bottom-up process that depends upon individual incentives. Critical incentives have been diminished or destroyed by recent economic policies. Fear, uncertainty, threats, tax increases, penalties, and violations of the rule of law are but some of the conditions anathema to entrepreneurs, small business, and large business. Businesses will not hire, invest, or expand in a climate of disincentives. No commands from on high can force economic activity. That was a lesson that should have been learned from Eastern Europe and the former USSR.

If these disincentives are left in place, our economy will continue to shrink and our standard of living will continue to diminish. Capital has no nationality, and it will start to flee our shores. Talent will follow. We will not recover from this economic downturn until businesses and individuals have a more favorable incentive structure.

You can’t argue with the 10.2% unemployment rate, and it’s only going to get worse. Everything that Obama has done has been bad for business, and has contributed to raising unemployment. Democrats, (and the people who voted Democrat), know less about economics than my keyboard.

Earlier this week I was invited by TPI to participate in a small discussion group for a feature in CIO magazine. The conversation was based around recent research conducted by TPI that looked at today’s major challenges for IT service management and governance.

I am not about to reveal the details of the research or of the very interesting discussion that took place. What I am going to comment on are the remarks made by CIO Magazine editor Martin Veitch.

Martin started the meeting by outlining the ‘top of mind’ issues that he is hearing from his extensive CIO contact base. He briefly discussed the old ‘image issue’, of CIOs as techies who fail to appreciate business goals and the need for technology alignment. This he dismissed as no longer valid. CIOs are well aware of the need for business alignment – and they are increasingly focused on some of the issues that make this hard to achieve.

Among those issues are the dramatic changes going on in technology.  For example, the impacts of Cloud Computing are only now being grasped and it will raise a wide variety of strategic and governance challenges, as well as opportunities. Among the implications is the need to review existing and future contracts. Emerging technologies will revolutionize the relationships with some existing suppliers; in other cases, it will mean forming relationships with brand new suppliers. Terminating, renegotoating and new sourcing will be a major effort and fundamental in its impact – especially with regard to getting good alignment with business needs.

So the role of Procurement will be critical to the CIO’s success, but so will the way that suppliers respond and offer creative new commitments. The dependence on contracting and commercial competence goes much deeper than in the past – and many CIOs have realised that it is a core dependency for their performance (echoing the views recently expressed by Professor Leslie Willcocks of the London School of Economics).

At last, CIOs are looking at a world where the latest technologies and the methods of service delivery allow them to re-think budgets and operate with dramatically reduced up-front costs. They can begin to move IT expenditure from a capital expense to operating expense. They can ‘gain revenge’ on many of the suppliers who they feel have ‘for years, taken advantage of them’ (in particular some of the major software suppliers).

CIO thinking is that they increasingly need to multi-source and to enter into either shorter term or more readily terminable agreements. Again, this has massive implications to the resources they need at their disposal – and it will also have major impact on suppliers and their business economics, plus the way they interface with and manage customer relationships. Not in itself new news – but potentially revolutionary for the world of contracting and contract / relationship management.

At this point, many CIOs apparently despair of obtaining the right resources within the business and take the view that they must develop commercial and contract skills within the IT department. They see a need for core skills in negotiation; they know that they must raise legal and financial awareness within  their staff. They must become ‘masters of outsourcing and offshoring’, understanding the impacts of culture and business practices on their projects and deliverables. Governance is another major issue, requiring appropriate contractual protections and the ability to oversee supplier performance.

So with technology now becoming the great business enabler, contracts and commercial professionals must step up to the challenges and opportunities that are being created. This new world calls for more creative relationships, supported by commitments and performance metrics that safeguard contractual outcomes. And the message from CIOs is clear – our community on both buy-side and sell-side must either step up to the plate and deliver against business needs, or the CIO community will acquire for themselves the skills needed to safeguard their success.

Many times as an entrepreneur we have high hopes of starting & developing 1 or more successful businesses. Then many times in the process of building a new business venture or working on the current one that you have, you may forget about or don’t pay enough attention to how is this going to affect your family or the ones closet in your life.

Starting & managing a business can take a lot out of you. Many things around the life and success of your business ventures or projects should start out with a strategic plan & support. Why?

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Because without strategically planning things can lead to disorganization, various problems in your company, problems with family, friends etc… If your entrepreneurial adventures may have some affect on your family or close ones then create a plan; a strategic one at that.

Let your family know that this is a business and things have to get done but there will be family time soon & stick to the plan! When you have a strategic plan to make time for both: business & family, you could possibly create & maintain a sense of balance which could possibly lead to success in both areas.

Take into account those around you. Then you all can coordinate your schedules together. Take time out each week or month to have a meeting with them to discuss up coming events, plans etc…. Then decide how you all will work them out. Stick To The Plan!!

Have these things written out on paper, on your computer, personal calendar etc… Post them where every one involved can see them or be a reminder to you. That way, you all will know what’s going on (or supposed to be) in the coming days or weeks. Then you won’t have any surprises (hopefully).

In your plan you can leave some room for adjustments and problems but with your plan by your side you’ll see your way through a crisis.

Try to get more assistance around the home. Schedule out personal time, family time, quiet time for you to reflect, not too much till you start slacking in your business. Slacking off will show, your customers & associates might notice & that’s bad for business. Put aside enough time to just relax & release then come back to business refreshed. Let your family, close ones or loved ones help you out in your business in small ways.

A little strategic planning goes a long way, it can help you & benefit your business, your family & you in the long run.

The Dilemma…“I don’t understand computers, and I don’t know what I.T. even stands for anymore, but without it I can’t get anything done. Please just make my network work.” Historically variations of this statement have been a recipe for disaster for many small business owners. What they are really saying is “I’m good at my core business, and technology is a core part of my day-to-day business operations. Do I really need to become an expert to simply utilize what it has to offer?” Hardware, software, networking, and phone companies alike have jumped at the opportunity to implement their latest solution-of-the-day. Each has their own best interest in mind, with little or no concern to how well the solution even fits that particular business. For years, small businesses have been missing the role that larger companies obtain from the CIO. A top down approach to assure that appropriate technology is implemented across the environment.

Can you really outsource your entire IT operation to a single service provider? I have been heavily involved in developing Kaltec’s Managed Data Division to answer this with a resounding “YES”. Unlike most providers who started out in the break/fix IT support realm, we entered the IT arena as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). We have been developing custom business applications based on Microsoft technology since 1993, and found the implementation phase to be very challenging. Developers (myself included) found that working with IT departments to create an infrastructure robust enough to support the demands of the custom application could be very difficult and bureaucratic. In addition, any issue that arose in any area of the network was – by default – blamed on the newly implemented software for months after the software was rolled out. To survive custom implementations, our team members had to become very good at taking a holistic approach to network infrastructure. This included honing a skill-set of high level configuration of Microsoft Server aspects such as Exchange, SQL Server, Active Directory & Group Policy. It became obvious that the only way to protect ourselves was to be better than our customers at managing their business network.

Our mission to offer a complete, competent IT solution has been a huge undertaking, and there are many aspects to be considered. A key component was to establish a fully managed suite of IT products and services, including a combination of proprietary, branded, and resold technologies. Kaltec works with their customers to build a custom tailored IT package, which is delivered for a predictable monthly fee. This fixed fee concept includes customer support, monitoring, security and patch management. It also has solutions for hardware, procurement, and licensing.

I am often asked, is Managed Services just another word for Outsourcing? After the technology bust, and all the hype surrounding the dangers of outsourcing, naturally the industry had to come up with another term to put everyone at ease. However the key to managed services really lies in the approach. As a general statement, experience, standards, and proactive monitoring are key to delivering a higher level service than businesses can obtain internally.

IT has long been a significant cost to businesses of all sizes. More and more, companies are realizing that; while necessary, IT really plays no role in how profitable your company is. While once a differentiating factor, today the benefits of automation are largely assumed as day to day necessity. To make matters worse, skilled IT employees are notoriously difficult to qualify, train, and retain. (Not to mention expensive!) Compounding this, the intellectual knowledge that IT staff obtains is invaluable – especially when supporting legacy systems is simply a fact-of-life for most businesses. Turning these issues over to a reputable service provider makes a lot of sense when looking at the problem from the top.

One of the most challenging aspects of the Managed IT approach is to avoid commoditizing the service as a whole. To brown-box the service too much means wrapping unique customers into a 1 size fits all container – ignoring the flexibility that is built into today’s systems. I firmly believe that one of the most intriguing aspects of IT is the ability to use common toolkits (known as software) to build custom solutions that make our everyday work experience more productive. Customers love the idea of a fixed fee approach (duh), but we work with them to create a plan that still accommodates enough flexibility to allow us to really improve their IT environment when we see the opportunity. With commodity comes predictability and stability, but the benefits – as well as the value – are typically reduced equally. Walking the line between commodity and cutting-edge is an important aspect, and should not be overlooked whatever role you play in the IT. arena.

Is IT outsourcing via managed services for everyone? The question a business owner needs to ask themselves is “Am I an IT company?” If the answer is no, the money that is spent staffing and supporting your IT department is not an asset. Even if your IT staff is putting in 60 hrs/wk supporting (i.e. breaking and then fixing) your network, they will never become as skilled as someone who is exposed to hundreds of networks in as many industries. In my experience; documentation, procedure, security and data protection derived from tested standards of practice – rather than the latest newbies “great idea” – provide the greatest longevity in a business environment. We are in the state of a paradigm shift on technology, and the days of the IT cowboy are numbered. Looking forward, as industry moves on creating a whole new level of expectations in the technology industry, we as IT providers need to reassess our methods and lead the charge.

Jason Kallevig
Kaltec of Minnesota, Inc.
www.kaltecdatasys.com

I am maybe one of the world’s laziest homeowners.

My sister told me the other day that she spent part of her weekend cleaning out her junk drawers! *Drop jaw*. If I were inclined to clean out anything, a junk drawer would be about the LAST thing I’d clean. That’s why they call it a junk drawer, right?

This post is inspired by another blog post I read recently about services that will do everything for you – from walk your dog to buy your wife an anniversary gift.

The blogger wondered if we are becoming so obsessed with our online communities that we just aren’t making time for other things. Can we pull our eyes away from our Facebook pages, our Twitter accounts, our blogrolls to get anything constructive done?

I beg to differ. My slide into lazy homeownership probably developed about 5 years into it. That was about how long it took for us to overstuff our nooks and crannies with all manner of detritus and before the days of social networking.

I’ve always been an inward-looking person – and pretty manually challenged – and the other half has the same tendencies. So we don’t know how to fix ANYTHING and pay people to do everything. I also was never very good at asking relatives and/or friends to do little favors for free. If somebody does a little favor for me, then I owe them a little favor and – as I said – I don’t know how to do anything!

I think our tool arsenal consists of a drill, a garden trowel, and the lid from a Craftsman toolbox with a bunch of brads and random sockets. For 19 years, every other time I would open my linen closet the doorknob came off in my hand. So I’ve developed a system whereby I only put away laundry every other time.

I remember when we first got the house, I had the pride of homeownership and tried to be obsessively clean and neat. But this really only works if you live alone. It’s hard to match your preferences with another person or animal.

My husband and I started teasing each other about being slobs. I said he was the bigger slob. He said I was the bigger slob. We had an official phrase for it: “Chief Principal Offender.”

One week we went around the house with color-coded index cards and marked our pet peeves.

“Chief Principal Offender” labels in pink and blue went into shoes not put into closets, coats hanging over chairs, cups left on end tables, water-splattered sink tops, empty boxes of dryer sheets left on top of the dryer.

Then – eventually – this little game lost its humor and we got too lazy to even make the cards.

I had Mighty Maids for a while. I didn’t want to have to clean the house and work as much as I was working. I wanted my non-work time to be for me. But – eventually – I got ashamed of my laziness and spending money on one thing I actually knew how to do myself, so I canned the maids.

We’ve tried to do better about picking up after ourselves, but it’s really the big jobs – like shredding 10 years worth of documents that have taken over too much closet space or deciding what crap we don’t need anymore – that is the big issue. If it were up to me, I’d rent one of those Pod things and do a Sherman’s March through the house. I can be quite brutal. But my partner would get mad if I threw away his “valuable stuff.” *Rolls eyes*

Perhaps I need to incentivize myself. Or maybe not.

Cloud Computing, also das Auslagern von IT-Dienstleistungen auf Provider und Rechenzentren, kann aus der Perspektive des Datenschutzes eine recht heikle Angelegenheit werden. Denn die rechtliche Verantwortlichkeit für die Korrektheit der Arbeit in der Cloud sowie die zum Teil sehr weitreichende persönliche Haftung der Verantwortlichen für damit einhergehende Risiken können nicht mit in die Cloud wegdelegiert werden.

Andererseits kann Cloud Computing gerade kleineren und mittelständischen Unternehmen dabei helfen, professionelle Abläufe im IT-Betrieb sowie hohe Standards bei IT-Sicherheit und Datenschutz einzukaufen anstatt sie selbst erst aufbauen zu müssen.

Zu diesem Schluss kommt eine Untersuchung der Europäischen Agentur für Netz- und Informationssicherheit (ENISA), die kürzlich veröffentlicht wurde (PDF, 2 MB). „Die Weitergabe der eigenen Daten in fremde Hände bedeutet für Unternehmen natürlich ein Risiko. Neben offensichtlichen Gefahren wie Datenschutz-Intransparenz, Datenverlust und unvollständiger Datenlöschung kann die fehlende Kompatibilität von Lösungen zu Problemen bei der Migration zu einem anderen Anbieter führen“, erläutert ENISA-Researcher Daniele Catteddu. Daher rät man den am Cloud Computing interessierten Unternehmen, sich in Frage kommende Anbieter genau anzusehen. Dafür sollte im Unternehmen eine geschäftsspezifische Risikoanalyse gemacht werden, wozu die ENISA in ihrer Untersuchung konkrete Handlungsanleitungen gibt.

Besonders attraktiv ist Cloud Computing dabei für neu gegründete Unternehmen, deren Alternative ansonsten darin bestünde, ihre IT auf der grünen Wiese komplett neu aufzubauen. Schließlich lassen sich viele Cloud-Leistungen modular buchen, kurzfristig erweitern und nutzungsabhängig abrechnen.

Auch der Netzwerksicherheitsdienstleister RSA kam zu der Erkenntnis, dass Cloud Computing das Sicherheitsniveau herkömmlicher IT-Infrastrukturen in KMU deutlich steigern kann. In der November-Ausgabe des „RSA Security Brief“ ist ein Leitfaden enthalten, worauf ein Unternehmen technisch, rechtlich und organisatorisch bei der Auswahl eines Cloud-Dienstleisters sowie der Einführung von Cloud Computing achten sollte. Und mit welchen technischen Ansätzen sich wertvolle Unternehmensdaten schützen und rechtliche Datenschutzanforderungen erfüllen lassen.

The past couple of books I have written ‘Who Moved my Job?’ (Lulu 2008) and ‘Global Services: Moving to a Level Playing Field’ (British Computer Society 2008) have both been published under license for South Asia by Viva in Delhi.

Viva took a look at my most recent book – Talking Outsourcing (Lulu 2009) – and said they are not interested in publishing it because they don’t feel it connects to the reader in the same way as the other books I have written.

That’s fine. They have their opinion. Only I think they are wrong.

Here’s why.

I don’t think they understand that this was a book of a blog. This book is drawn from the best of my ‘Talking Outsourcing’ blog in Computing magazine, featuring blog entries from 2006 to 2009. It’s written and presented as a chronological business diary. Everything that’s going on in the world of services globalisation and outsourcing from my point of view over that three year period.

It’s worth pointing out that the British national tech magazine Computer Weekly thought so highly of my blog, they shortlisted it for blog of the year in their IT Blog Awards 2009. The launch event at London South Bank University was also very successful – take a look at the video here.

Clearly there are a lot of people involved in the hi-tech service sector in India and I am sure they would like to see this book.

It highlights the issues, the trends, the failures, and the successes of the past three years in the global hi-tech industry and India gets a fair share of that business.

Sure, it’s a book of a blog and not written with a new narrative focused on a single topic, but that’s part of the idea here. Take the content from the blog and make it work in a different way by putting it all in one place, so it can be quickly skipped through.

If you are a publisher in India and you are interested in the South Asia rights for this book then get in touch with me. I’m planning to be there in February so if you move fast we could do some personal appearances around the launch. You can reach me here…