Whitepaper: 3 Keys to Achieving Mobile Learning Success

Learners have changed, so has the learning. Lately, learning has jumped out of the box and demands success in anytime, anywhere learning. As close as the mobile device is to the user, so is its ability to enhance the user’s performance. This paper identifies 3 key essentials to achieving success in adopting mobile learning for employee performance improvement.

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Why Spanning Tree Should Be Dead But Isn’t

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is dead, or at least it should be. It’s too slow to converge when there’s a change, and it causes issues with performance because there is only one forwarding path. It was developed in 1985 by Radia Perlman at Digital Equipment Corporation to allow for redundant paths within a Layer 2 topology, which was great in 1985. In fact, it was huge! So much so, that it was later standardized by the IEEE as 802.1D, and we’ve been living with it ever since.

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Why Spanning Tree Should Be Dead But Isn’t

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is dead, or at least it should be. It’s too slow to converge when there’s a change, and it causes issues with performance because there is only one forwarding path. It was developed in 1985 by Radia Perlman at Digital Equipment Corporation to allow for redundant paths within a Layer 2 topology, which was great in 1985. In fact, it was huge! So much so, that it was later standardized by the IEEE as 802.1D, and we’ve been living with it ever since.

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ITIL Newbie Mistake #10: Expecting a Tool to Do the Work

As IT organizations strive to provide more value to the ever-evolving nature of business, the ITIL Foundation course has become very popular, because it covers the concepts of managing IT as a set of services.

When students take the ITIL Foundation course, they often leave the classroom excited about how they can adjust the way they work to help the business meet its needs. Many times, this excitement is coupled with the desire to act immediately to show what they’ve learned from the course. This desire for immediate action can often produce negative results.

In this series, we’re taking a look at some of the common mistakes people make after they complete their ITIL Foundation course.

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