Is This Working? You Don’t Know Unless You Ask

In the world of talent development, return on investment is often questioned. This is particularly true of “soft skills,” which on one hand constitutes the essential non-functional/non-technical competencies that affect how one does their jobs and on the other seems intangible and subjective in terms of measurement.

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Technical Certification + PMP = Higher Salary in 2017

After tabulating results from our IT Salary and Skills Survey last year, we issued our first “PMP Bump” graphic. Survey results showed that respondents saw an increase in salary when adding a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification to their existing IT certification.

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Quick Look at VMware vSphere 6.0: vMotion Options

vMotion, as you may know, is the capability to move the state of a running VM from one physical host to another host without user disruption. It requires the two VMs to be on the same datacenter, in the same cluster; have hosts sharing the same storage, on the same LAN, on same Layer 3, on the same switch; and on the same vCenter — if you are still using vSphere 4.0! However, each newer version of vSphere has gradually “whittled down” the requirements of vMotion, and vSphere 6.0 has removed all but the “same datacenter” requirement.

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