Phone interviews can save time and speed up the hiring process. This cheat sheet will make it easy to ask both general and job-specific questions, allowing you to compare candidates for the field/systems engineer job systematically. Questions from the cheat sheet: In what type of corporate culture do you thrive best and why? Have you ...
Whether you work for a company completely committed to the cloud, relying exclusively on a physical data center or utilizing a hybrid of the two, supporting the business through proper setups and maintenance makes server know-how even more critical. This checklist from TechRepublic Premium is intended to provide management guidelines and solutions to many of ...
Virtualization allows for applications, operating systems and networks to be operated in a logical ‘sandbox,’ reducing the need for physical hardware. The host platform for virtualized resources can be located on-premises or provided by a cloud services operator, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides guidelines for implementing ...
Properly managed, planned systems outages need not prove contentious or disruptive. With a little foresight, even scheduled service interruptions can be coordinated in ways that catch no one by surprise and minimize productivity issues. Check out the accompanying checklist from TechRepublic Premium to learn more about coordinating scheduled systems outages. From the checklist: CREATE A ...
Maximum uptime is often a priority goal for company systems and services in today’s 24/7 year-round society. With that objective in mind, a comprehensive system and service monitoring strategy is an essential component of any technological infrastructure to achieve organizational success. The objective of this policy from TechRepublic Premium is to define what systems and ...
While job positions related to data collection, manipulation and analysis are extremely important to the modern big data business environment, few of those employees could do their jobs, despite their talent level, without a properly running and efficient communications network. The nuts and bolts of configuration and the heavy lifting of management for any business ...
In the modern business world, where the transfer of data and information is vital to every business transaction and every employee’s productivity, a reliable and fast communications network is imperative. A compromised or faulty network can lead to downtime, lost revenue, excessive costs and possibly much worse. The individuals keeping networks up and running are ...
Explore wired and wireless LAN solutions in a side-by-side comparison with Juniper, driven by Mist AI, Cisco, Meraki and Aruba. See the key features to consider when building out your branch campus network for the AI-Driven Enterprise. Let’s compare solutions in their breadth and depth of features. Subscribe to the Developer Insider Newsletter From the ...
Velocity, Insight, and Impact. Whether your organisation is a fast mover or fast follower, the ability to increase your velocity gives you the advantage in shaping business outcomes. When the correct data and models are used, patterns can be discerned, and insight can be unlocked. With this insight comes the confidence to make decisions, communicate ...
The path to AI for IT starts with the campus network. Toil is manual, repetitive work with no enduring value. It is considered an overhead and often scales linearly with your IT footprint. Operations is plagued with examples of troubleshooting toil, often codified as manual steps in operational playbooks and SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures). This ...
The enterprise wired and wireless LAN infrastructure market is now composed of vendors not only delivering wired and wireless Ethernet networking hardware, but also tightly integrating network management software that resides on-premises or in the cloud. This combination of network hardware and powerful software is integral for addressing organizational mission agility, pervasive security and the ...
PURPOSE Microsoft developed a scripting language called PowerShell to assist Windows administrators with repetitive or mundane tasks. (TechRepublic Premium’s first Windows administrator’s PowerShell script kit can be found here.) To introduce you to PowerShell — or to further your existing knowledge base — TechRepublic Premium has assembled these PowerShell commands and scripts for common workstation ...
PURPOSE With the ubiquitous adoption of cloud computing, the Internet of Things, big data and mobile devices, the amount of data flowing through a modern enterprise network has increased substantially. Managing the flow of all this data requires systems that are dynamic, agile and flexible enough to handle the increased load. In many cases, the ...
This list of potential interview questions are ready-made for your organization’s HR department to use when it’s time to hire a wireless network engineer. Wireless engineers are valued by all types of business, from traditional brick-and-mortar companies moving to more wireless commerce to industry disruptors. Even smaller companies may contract with businesses that provide the ...
Cloud Technologies have moved from single workload projects to the mainstream. Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is popular. The market for these services grew by nearly 40% in 2019. With IaaS, the cloud provider operates the underlying IT infrastructure — servers and virtual machines, storage, networking, and operating systems — using an ondemand and a pay-as-you-go model. ...