InformationWeek Daily - Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Lights! Camera! Action! New Job? Unemployment numbers are rising, according to the U.S. government's latest labor stats. In the hunt for new work, do you think a Web-based video resume would help you stand out from other job candidates? Some folks think it's worth a try. Felix Santella is the former CIO and director of IT at Goodtimes Entertainment, a direct marketing and media company that distributed celebrity videos, including Richard Simmons' "Sweatin' To The Oldies" exercise series. Goodtimes is in bankruptcy, and Santella is seeking another senior technology executive position with a new employer. At the video distribution company, Santella didn't work with cameras. But now that he's searching for a new job, Santella thinks a little time spent in front of a camera could help him land another CIO-type post. With the popularity of Web-based videos (think YouTube), more companies are looking for ways to use the technology. In fact, my colleague Fritz Nelson recently wrote an in-depth piece about the emerging trend. To learn more, click here. For sure, applying for a job using a Web-based video resume isn't close to being the norm. But because of that newness, Santella says he thinks the medium is a good way to showcase his tech-trend awareness to "progressive" employers. If anything, a video resume could make Santella more memorable for HR managers sifting through traditional resumes. And he thinks it also provides him a bit of a head start in the candidate selection process, especially if a phone screening would've been involved. "It's valuable to see the person you're talking to about a job," he says. Find out what other tips Santella has for IT job seekers and feel free to post your thoughts in the comment section. Marianne Kolbasuk McGee mmcgee@cmp.com www.informationweek.com
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Enterprise 2.0: Google, Amazon, Salesforce Push 'Cloud' Vision Vendors at the Enterprise 2.0 conference tried to convince a group of seasoned IT pros that they should put all their data in the so-called cloud and leave it to outsiders to manage. Apple's 3G iPhone Stands Better Chance Against BlackBerry Apple's 3G iPhone could become a strong competitor against the BlackBerry and weaken Google's initiative to build an open-source operating system for smartphones. Microsoft Says Windows Server 2008 Cuts Power Consumption By 10% Microsoft estimates that enterprise-class Windows Server 2008 running with 20 active clients would save about $30 annually in power costs compared to the 2003 version. Many Tech Workers Would Accept Pay Cut To Telecommute In a poll of more than 1,500 IT workers, 37% said they would be willing to take a pay cut of up to 10% to telecommute full time. Microsoft Patch Tuesday Brings Seven Fixes The DirectX and IE vulnerabilities are noteworthy because they could be exploited using proven methods of social engineering, security researchers point out. Amazon.com Suffers More Outages Amazon.com's home page went down several times Monday, just three days after the Web site experienced outages and performance problems. HP Challenges Apple With Latest PCs HP counters the iPhone's buzz with new models of its touch-screen PC and a total of 16 notebooks for businesses and consumers. Enterprise 2.0: FedEx To Deliver E-Services Beyond The Browser FedEx business customers want the convenience of accessing online tools and services without having to exit their applications and launch a new browser window. Women Buying More Smartphones The demographic is significant, as 71% of women decide on their families' wireless choices, a Verizon survey found. Microsoft Touts Virtualization At TechEd Conference Microsoft expects big growth in server virtualization, application virtualization, presentation virtualization, and desktop virtualization. ISPs Agree To Block Child Porn Sites, Newsgroups Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint have also agreed to pay a total of $1.125 million to support the activities of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Enterprise 2.0: CIA's Secret Intellipedia Has Universal Relevance The government's private wiki is a solution to the age-old problem of getting important information into the hands of intelligence agency people who can put it to good use. Enterprise 2.0: Google, Amazon, Salesforce Push 'Cloud' Vision Vendors at the Enterprise 2.0 conference tried to convince a group of seasoned IT pros that they should put all their data in the so-called cloud and leave it to outsiders to manage. All Our Latest News See InformationWeek's daily breaking news on your mobile device, visit mobile.informationweek.com and sign up for daily SMS notifications.	Apple's 3G iPhone Stands Better Chance Against BlackBerry Microsoft Says Windows Server 2008 Cuts Power Consumption By 10% Many Tech Workers Would Accept Pay Cut To Telecommute Microsoft Patch Tuesday Brings Seven Fixes Amazon.com Suffers More Outages Virtualization At The Desktop? Examine how more than 250 companies plan to adopt server virtualization technology in this recent InformationWeek Research report, Server Virtualization. The BI Explosion Examine the business intelligence strategies of 500 companies, including deployment drivers and challenges, spending plans, and vendor selection, in this recent InformationWeek Research report. Two Conferences, Two Different Directions This week, there are two conferences being held. One is Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, which sold out for the first time this year. The other is Microsoft's TechEd IT. Apple's announcement of a new iPhone, one that appeals to IT departments, may leave some mobile IT aficionados thinking they went to the wrong conference. Apple Sacrificing Short-Term Profits To Build An iPhone Platform Apple's primary goal with the iPhone 3G is to saturate the market with iPhones, to make the device a major development platform alongside Windows and the Mac. That's why it's selling it cheap -- it wants to get as many devices into users' hands as possible, and it's willing to sacrifice some short-term profits to do it. Where Is Google's Free FTP Service? Google provides so many services for free, I am rather surprised that it doesn't offer a free FTP hosting service for small business customers. Sure, Docs, Apps, and even GMail and Picasa can serve as repositories of files, but they aren't super convenient for transferring large files back and forth. Will there ever be a Google FTP? There Are Now (Finally) Business Class Disk Crypto Options For OS X Back in January, we listed a few things that Apple needs to do to to make the Mac OS X more "enterprise" IT security friendly. While we're waiting, a number of independent security vendors are stepping up with enterprise-class disk encryption. The Four Trends Driving Enterprise Cloud Computing Google predicts that virtually all meaningful innovation in business applications over the next ten years will occur within the cloud, driven by four distinct trends. What are they? Who Wants To Be A Beta-Tester? Me, evidently! This month I've been elbow-deep in the beta-testing of no less than three open source products: Movable Type 4.2, OpenOffice 3, and (of course) Firefox 3. It's no coincidence I use these three applications almost daily, so I have a vested interest in making sure their newest revisions work well. (That doesn't keep me from retaining the existing known-good versions, of course...) Symantec Goes For VMware's Jugular The company teams with Citrix to carve out a chunk of the server virtualization market. Boston Celtics' Secret Battle Cry: Ubuntu The Boston Celtics are closing in on another NBA championship after having adopted ubuntu as their rallying cry at the beginning of the season. RIM's Touch Screen Device Spotted While the world had its eyes on San Francisco yesterday, another noteworthy gem popped up on the Internet. A new, but unannounced, touch screen device from Research In Motion was photographed and shared across the Web. My question is, does this device even have a chance against the new iPhone? D'Ambrosio Steps Down From Avaya, Citing Medical Reasons Avaya announced today that its president and CEO, Lou D'Ambrosio, is stepping down due to "medical reasons" (about which no further details were given), and that he'll be replaced on an interim basis by Charlie Giancarlo, who left Cisco late last year to join the private equity firm, Silver Lake Partners, that acquired Avaya almost exactly one year ago. The Avaya announcement is here and my No Jitter analysis is here (we'll be following the story at No Jitter throughout the day). The timing couldn't be much worse for Avaya, as a slowing U.S. economy threatens to stall growth for the enterprise voice market in North America. Five Reasons NOT To Buy The 3G iPhone To be sure, the 3G iPhone announced during yesterday's WWDC keynote is a big improvement over the original. But there are still a few detractors to keep certain people away. Here are five reasons explaining why you may want to avoid the 3G iPhone. Real-World SOA: Definition, Implementation and Use of SOA with CentraSite Web services are having a dramatic impact on improving enterprise architecture and application development practices. This paper highlights three sample case studies illustrating how Fujitsu's CentraSite delivers SOA solutions. Forrester Consulting: Unified Communications Delivers Global Benefits This Forrester Consulting study shows how Unified Communications (UC) makes it simpler to contact others over any device in any location, enhancing business agility, cutting costs, and boosting employee productivity. Forrester finds that UC is already delivering major savings for organizations around the world in retail banking, manufacturing and education. Download the full report for free. Software as a Service Research Report No longer a niche software delivery model, software as a service (SaaS) can help small and midsize companies get access to enteprise-class software functionality without having to commit enterprise-level capital resources. Download the full report for free. The Internet & the Developing World The evolution of the Internet has been full of surprises - surprises that have sometimes resulted in radical changes in the commercial landscape, such as the arrival of Amazon, eBay, Google, YouTube, and Skype. Could one of the next big surprises turn out to be linked to developing countries? 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