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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Top 10 Reasons for Choosing SAP BusinessObjects

In many of today’s enterprise data warehouses and decision support teams, data scientists and data visualization specialists have reached near rock star status. This is in large part due to their ability to produce unique, clever and insightful perspectives with company information. These analytical gems often bypass obstacles to explain complex business data. This line of work is both an art and a science, and is generally most effective when the right blend of business intelligence tools are in place.

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