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Avaya stares down Microsoft, Cisco

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Avaya stares down Microsoft, Cisco
While Avaya’s contact center and unified communications announcements last week signal the company wants a dominant position in those areas, it faces internal challenges and formidable competitors including Microsoft MCTS Training and Cisco.

The company is in the midst of digesting and integrating Nortel’s enterprise division, which it bought last year for $900 million and from which it expects to reap big returns by next spring. At the same time, it is dealing with the same generally soft economy that other vendors are — though Cisco is registering surprisingly strong revenue gains.
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Avaya’s CEO says the next six to nine months are critical as it tries to integrate the former Nortel Enterprise division — including network infrastructure and business telephony — into its fold. The purchase was finalized last December, so the company has just completed its second full quarter since the acquisition. “On most operational details we have the normal first quarter challenges from shipments and logistics. Second quarter things are feeling pretty good, and the litmus test is ahead of us,” CEO Kevin Kennedy told Network World in an interview at Avaya’s offices.

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That test is whether the company can nail down significant long-term commitments from Nortel telephony and contact center customers and lock them into a migration toward Avaya UC. At the heart of that challenge is convincing Nortel customers to buy Avaya Aura, the company’s flagship communications server. With Aura customers can step into IP telephony, glue together disparate VoIP systems and — most significantly for Avaya — lay the foundation for adopting UC.

Kennedy says Aura can support Session Initiation Protocol trunking immediately to bring cost savings to corporations and over time bring increased productivity that will save money long-term but might have a longer return on investment Microsoft MCITP Certification.

He acknowledges that getting Nortel communications customers interested in sticking with Avaya as they make plans for transitions to UC is key. The company is trying to draw them in with a flurry of announcements about new products, product enhancements and integrations with Nortel products. “This period right now is about bringing a lot of innovation to market. Now the question will be, are our customers as excited about it as we are?” he asks.

The stakes are high since just 17% of Avaya accounts overlap with Nortel’s, and competitors are gunning for the rest with attractive deals. “These customers are a pretty loyal base,” says Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with Yankee Group. “But they’re loyal to Nortel, not Avaya.” Historically, until Cisco entered the VoIP market, very few telephony customers shifted from one vendor to another, Kerravala says, and the recent turmoil of Nortel’s bankruptcy and Avaya’s purchase of its telephony business puts Nortel customers in play.

Surprisingly, the purchase of Nortel by Avaya didn’t result in Avaya catapulting to the top of the IP telephony market as some analysts expected. With Nortel and Avaya ranking solidly among the top five for years with very nearly equal shares of the market led people to think combining the two would result in a formidable lead for Avaya, says Matthius Machowinski, an analyst with Infonetics. “We expected them to be ahead of everyone else,” he says.

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What is Visual Certkingdom?

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What is Visual Certkingdom?

The Visual Cert Exam Suite consists of two programs; a Manager and a Designer. According to Visual Certkingdom.com, the designer was developed “for authors involved in practice exam development” and the manager was “designed for taking exams created with Visual Certkingdom Designer”. Unfortunately, one of the popular features of the designer is the ability to import and convert TXT, RTF, and PDF formats to the VCE format which is read by the program and displays the questions and answers in a format that is more like the actual exam Microsoft MCTS Training.
How is the VCE Manager used in the IT Industry?

As with the PDF braindump when it was first released, the VCE braindump is a tool used to dupe the Inadvertent Cheaters into risking their certifications. The easy to use import feature of the designer has made it very popular among the same crowd of people that originally created the PDF braindump. Yes, the braindumps that used to be all PDFs are now PDF and VCE formats. If you’re looking for VCEs to study with, you’ll most likely find yourself studying with an authentic braindump.
How does the VCE affect the certification industry?

The use of the VCE has flowed over to the cheating crowd that is always looking for “FREE” practice tests and has made a very huge impact in how people (illegally) study for certification exams. The invent of the VCE is definitely changing our campaign on braindump usage and now that we’ve seen the program used primarily for converting braindumps, we are beginning to understand

We all know that PDFs (~99% of them) are braindumps and violate the Non-Disclosure Agreements of every certification vendor in the industry, so it shouldn’t be too hard to accept the fact that ~99% of all VCEs will also be classified as braindumps.
Is the VCE Manager a valid tool that can be used to study with?

To put it bluntly, no. An explanation is in order, however. Although there is nothing wrong with the program itself, it is extremely rare that you will find a legitimate practice test provider using this tool to create their practice tests. Any use of this program we’ve seen has been in converting the old braindump PDFs to the new braindump VCE format. There are many websites out there that provide such materials and we have most, if not all, of them classified as braindumps Microsoft MCITP Certification.

As always, before you jump into any contract with a practice test provider, make sure they’re not putting your certifications at risk by violating the Non-Disclosure Agreement you have to sign.

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Certkingdom Official Braindump Quiz

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Certkingdom Official Braindump Quiz
We at Certkingdom are always looking for ways to expand education on the Internet when it comes to preventing braindumps.  Today, we are pleased to announce the Certkingdom Official Braindump Quiz.

This quiz was designed by the team at Certkingdom to not only be fun, but also in hopes that it will teach everyone a little about identifying potential braindump websites. The quiz will give you the knowledge you need to avoid them when researching study materials. We hope that this will be educational for those in and outside the IT field.

Give the quiz a try today:

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Good Luck!

Forensic Analysis, it’s not just for catching killers anymore!

This post goes out to all the people who are incessant about cheating because they feel deep down in their hearts that they will never be caught. If you are one of those people, you may want to grab a smoke and a coke, then come back, kick your shoes off and relax for a while while you read this. If you know one of these people (we run into them in nearly every certification forum on the internet) then pass this link on to them. And, well, if you’re not one of them, you may want to learn a bit, so enjoy Microsoft MCTS Training!

Now, since I know there are quite a few people that still can’t seem to grasp the concept of Forensic Analysis and yet others firmly believe forensics are only used to catch killers (murderers), I thought I would post some more information on the topic so that everyone involved in the certification or testing procedures would better understand just how they can get caught by using braindumps.

Before I do get into the meat of the topic, I would like to point out that all the information I’m presenting here is public knowledge and could easily be found with a few google searches.

Something else that cheaters (primarily those that make a habit of cheating) should know is that no matter what you do, or try to do, to circumvent the system, you’re going to get caught eventually. The reason: Data Forensics find anomalies in behavior. And no matter how you TRY to behave while taking your exam, you’re merely creating another abmormality that can still be measured. So trying to take the information presented below and using it to your advantage probably won’t work.

Are these “scare tactics” to keep people from cheating? Hell Yes! But it doesn’t mean that the methods aren’t being used. They are infact being used, and they are continuously being improved upon.

One method Certification Vendors employ to catch braindumpers is planting specific questions in their exams. These quetions are generally questions that have already been exposed to the public via one or more of the 1000+ braindump sites so they are known by individuals that have previously cheated and once were once correct.

Here is an example that was presented by Dennis Maynes of Caveon in his blog on March 2, 2008 which covers the Trojan method of seeding exams. Please, take a few minutes to read that, it is extremely interesting.

Here is another interesting blog from Dennis on the probability of tests with identical answers. Here’s what is so ineresting about this. Braindumps are questions and answers that have been taken from the actual exams, and certification Vendors seed the exams (as shown in the first link), so wouldn’t it be pretty obvious to the certification vendors if you have correctly (or incorrectly, you choose) answered the same exact questions that they’ve seeded Microsoft MCITP Certification?

I’ll leave you with this question (and the link to the answer): Can you prove cheating on tests using statistics?

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Private Employment Agencies Vs. Professional Employment Agencies

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Private Employment Agencies Vs. Professional Employment Agencies
G.B. Prabhat is the founder and CEO of Anantara Solutions, the pioneer of Second Generation Outsourcing (SGO), a business model that focuses on delivering a whole bouquet of business benefits that help clients secure a competitive advantage Microsoft MCTS Training.

The vision of second generation outsourcing (SGO), and hence of Anantara, is to eliminate the extreme fragmentation that characterises the IT outsourcing and consulting industry today by destroying the entrenched borders between clients and service providers, service providers and service providers, and those between disparate technologies. Hence the name of the company, ‘Anantara’, which, in Sanskrit means ‘the continuum’ or ‘without interstices’, which explains the tagline of the company: ‘the power of the continuum’. The realisation of this vision would dramatically revise the state of both the global consulting industry and the global IT outsourcing industry.

My aspiration is that Anantara should become a world-leading, revered company that integrates consulting and IT services into one package, whose sole aim is improving clients’ business performance. Anantara will also, hopefully, lead the world in establishing a new business order – the company as a community. With the growth of the Anantara Ecosystem, we expect to be able to orchestrate the world’s most powerful community of service providers. Anantara should become synonymous with innovation in the outsourcing industry Microsoft MCITP Certification.

More importantly, Anantara should become an institution that is proud of its human capital. The Anantara Credo is a combination of the rational and the emotional. Every employee at Anantara is called an Anantsol (coined from ‘Anantara Solutions’). The credo lays the foundation for the mother of all our goals: ‘To build a company of happy Anantsols.’

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Private Employment Agencies Vs. Professional Employment Agencies

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Private Employment Agencies Vs. Professional Employment Agencies

Private employment agencies have the largest share of the market and are now quite well known to most people from personal experience at local offices and advertisements in the press. Local employment agencies deal with jobs that are clerical, junior administrative, shop staff, IT professional etc. Another type of private agency concentrates on recruitment and, sometimes, the initial stages of selection of middle and senior managers or of professional and specialist staff in fields such as, law accountancy, engineering, etc. Private employment agencies provide at times a very valuable service, especially in recruiting staff in situations where there is a shortage of the particular types of employees required. However, since they exist to make a profit, employers have to pay for any employees they may recruit in this way.

There are also pros and cons that have to be carefully weighed, especially when these private employment agencies are used to assist in the selection of managerial or professional staff. The advantages are the specialist knowledge that an agency can acquire of the employment conditions and requirements in particular fields, objectivity of view and skill in conducting the selection procedure. The main possible disadvantage in using external assistance for recruitment and selection purposes is the agent’s lack of first-hand experience of the cultural and environmental aspects of the organization’s work and life Microsoft MCTS Training.

There has been substantial growth of so-called ‘head-hunters’ or recruitment consultants. As the terms suggest, these are private firms and agencies of recruitment consultants who earn fees by meeting the job needs of organizations for specialist and senior managerial staff. Much of their work is carried on by means of an informal network of contacts, whereby they keep records of career profiles of people likely to be in constant demand, and obtain information about the needs of employers for appointments to be filled. This method has provided its value to the employer and employee clientele of these agencies.

Professional Employment Agencies

Several different kinds of agencies are included under the heading or Professional Employment Agency. The features they have in common are that they are all agencies set up by particular organizations to help their own members or ex-members find employment and that they are generally non-profit -making. The agencies of this kind that employers are likely to need and use most regularly are:-

1. Career services of academic institutions: Universities and similar institutions maintain a full-time career advisory service. They serve as an employment agency for graduating or recently graduated students, are centers of information for graduates about employment opportunities and for employers who are seeking potential managers or professional specialist.

2.Employment services of professional institutions: A number of professional institutions, such as those representing accounts, engineers, etc. have an employment advisory service whereby a register is kept of members seeking employment and information is collected from employers seeking staff in particular professions Microsoft MCITP Certification.

3. Employment exchange provided by the state service for young people provides a regular liaison between employers and unemployed youth.

While both types of employment agencies have flourished, a private employment agency with experience and professionalism is the most sought after.

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Online Business Models To Sell Digital Media Online

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Online Business Models To Sell Digital Media Online
Want to make a killing selling digital media on the Net? Well, here are a few ideas to get you started.

A transition from offline brick ‘n’ mortar to online virtual retail stores was bound to happen as the digital age progressed. This shift required innovative and legal business models to sell digital media online. But, as in many cases, this is an area where business models that have proven their worth in the West cannot be transplanted here on an ‘as is’ or ‘readymade’ basis. The psyche of the Indian consumer has to be factored in too Microsoft MCTS Training.

Apple’s Microsoft-style iTunes

For instance, Apple’s iTunes, which makes outright sales of digital media protected by digital rights management (DRM), was considered a breakaway yet very successful business model vis-à-vis, say, Napster’s subscription rental model that allowed unlimited, legal downloads of digital media unprotected by DRM.

Nevertheless, as Ajay Tripathi, business director, Id8labs points out: “Apple thought that it was very smart by forcing people to use only iTunes for syncing music to their iPods. It thought people would get addicted to iTunes and thus, eventually, purchase songs from its library. I perceive this launch as a typical Microsoft-style strategy. But what happened? Social application developers proved to be even smarter by creating applications similar to iTunes that could be accessed by the iPod! Besides offering the same functions and facilities as iTunes, these applications also allow the editing of the file and folder structure of the devices.”

Dealing with the Indian mindset

In India, Tripathi observes that an online seller of digital media would have to come up with especially innovative solutions, since its mass consumers are still diffident about the concept of e-commerce. He elucidates the consumers’ viewpoint: “When it comes to digital content, the target audience would not be inspired to pay even Rs 10 for a song, when it knows that it can get an entire DVD filled with 800+ MP3 songs from a roadside shop for a mere Rs 100. Indian users are aware of torrents and peer-to-peer (P2P) software that allow them to download entire movies for free.”

The bottom line is that Indian consumers must see a cost benefit in whatever they purchase—legality be damned in the process—unlike in the US, where time and convenience play a major role in influencing a purchase decision Microsoft MCITP Certification.

For these reasons, Tripathi seeks inspiration from the likes of Google, Yahoo! and Facebook to formulate an innovative and legal business model that would work for Indian online sellers of digital media. He points out that these sites have pumped time, effort and money into creating a digital services platform and yet are able to offer the service (search, mail and social activities/games/groups, respectively) to users, for free. This is because the sites seek compensation from the brands that use these platforms to reach out to their consumers in a cost-effective and precise manner.

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GIS Challenges Abound

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GIS: Challenges Abound!
Developing applications for Geographical Information Systems is the rage these days. But there are problems that we take a closer look at, along with some possible solutions.

Techies love venturing into application development areas that are seen to be fun, as well as sought after by consumers. This perhaps explains the scramble among the tech community to enter the space of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) applications for GPS-enabled mobile phones. But in truth, the utility of GIS extends far beyond digital mapping to help solve cartography problems. Any environmentalist will tell you that GIS is an essential tool, which enables the modelling, analysis and management of fast degrading and scarce spatially-related natural resources. And while the masses using GIS-based location applications want relatively simple tools, the needs of more serious users calls for a full-scale GIS software environment.

But developing a GIS application is not a lark! Here’s a rundown of the difficulties that an application developer is likely to face, as well as the solutions suggested by experts Microsoft MCTS Training.

Capturing data

Collection of data often influences the cost of implementing a new GIS application, simply because of the sheer volumes of data that must be accumulated and edited. The fact is that a GIS application does not only make use of map geometry generated by vectorisation technology, but also requires the addition of feature information, such as a lake or river, so as to generate meaningful topology and the association of user data. This difficulty has led to the creation of raster databases based on data generated by remote sensors (satellites), rasterised paper maps generated by scanning, and grid data derived from digital terrain models. {quotes}Unlike the difficulty of data capture faced by developers creating vector-based databases, remote image processing systems face computational problems in dealing with the sheer bulk of data available.{/quotes}

It is increasingly believed that an ideal GIS system is a hybrid integrated system based on a raster vector database that facilitates the manipulation, viewing and analysis of both forms of data in a seamless environment. According to Rajesh C. Mathur, president, ESRI India, the voluminous data entailed in such a hybrid system is best handled by an RDBMS (relational database management system) Microsoft MCITP Certification supporting spatial geometry in a seamless manner such as ESRI’s vector and raster ArcSDE. A developer using this application would simply have to identify the mechanisms of the spatial relationships and structures that are common in the voluminous data and analytical techniques that are unique to both spatial (vector and raster database) data. This process is made easier by the wide range of geodata services ArcSDE provides for data extraction, replication, warehousing, mining and synchronisation. ArcSDE also provides a framework and the tools to manage large spatial datasets in an RDBMS, such as IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Oracle, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL (structured query language) Server, and PostgreSQL. ArcSDE implements data warehousing and data mining sub-routines through its unique design.

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Money to Purchase Software and Videos to Learn the Skill of Internet Marketing!

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Money to Purchase Software and Videos to Learn the Skill of Internet Marketing!
Is the entire marketing hype frustrating you? Are you consistently spending your hard earned money to purchase software and videos to learn the skill of internet marketing and still perceiving the entire endeavor worthless? Thus, it’s high time that you need to channelize your pursuit and join reliable internet marketing training programs to make the most of your time Microsoft MCTS Training.

It is important to learn various marketing strategies to make the best use of internet or web marketing. For more detail go to: www.internet-marketing-online-goldmine.com.At the same time, you also should learn the impact and various consequences which these strategies have on your business. So, you should be very clear about the objective of the internet marketing training so that you too, like millions of others internet illiterate populace don’t come with high hopes but eventually fail in a miserable manner.

It is very important to have mentors which have years of professional expertise so that they can teach you right from the elementary level of the internet marketing skills. At the same time, in a training session, you learn what should the exact plan for marketing be and how to establish better and lasting client base.

What the trainings and their different types with respect to internet marketing? How are the professionals planning to train and educate you? Normally in the trainings, whether done through video conferencing or through the live Weimar sessions, you are taught regarding different kinds of strategies of internet marketing and what you should do at a particular time frame. Mostly, there is more than just one person who conducts the training sessions, so that you get to have a better and more refined idea.

This is the core of the entire web standardization. Most of the times, the professionals face heavy and disheartening failures because they do not know even the fundamental steps to market themselves. There are several things to be learnt like the Google advertising, the social media, Search Engine Optimization, the web 2.0, the video marketing etc. With these strategies, you get to learn the different methods though which you can have a better target audience for your site and business.

At the training sessions you are also taught regarding a variety of manners in which your website should be made or revamped so that it can sell. for more detail go to:www.tried-tested-marketing-strategies.com.All the internet marketing skills fail, if your basic website, the platform for your business is not strong enough to advertise and establish itself.

No matter, whether you have ever read the different testimonials placed on the websites, but in the training sessions you come to know that these testimonials are one of the important types of tools of marketing Microsoft MCITP Certification.

The esteemed writer of the article, Michael Russell has been writing numerous articles on the fundamentals of internet marketing training. He has also been taking various seminars and trainings to educate the professionals regarding the various fundamentals of the internet marketing including SEM training and Ad Words related marketing education.

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More Web Site Promotion Ideas Than You Can Shake a Stick At!

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More Web Site Promotion Ideas Than You Can Shake a Stick At!
Do you feel you’ve been working hard on your website but not getting a lot of results for what you’ve done? Are you still trying to figure out effective methods of website promotion that will get your website seen by a larger audience and increase your profits at the same time? Are you still trying to find the best and most effective ways to promote your website but coming up short?

If your answer is yes to any of the previous questions then this article is exactly what you need to read. I’m going to give you so many ideas for website promotion that it’s probably going to make your head explode. Don’t worry though because each idea I’m going to share with you has been proven to be effective and ultimately profitable for each website owner that has put these ideas into practice. So let’s get started with the list, shall we Microsoft MCTS Training?

1. Submit your website to search engines.

2. Submit your website to online website directories.

3. Contact other website owners in your market and see if they will trade a link with you.

4. Post your website to free online classifieds sites.

5. Sign up for free and low-cost Internet banners to exposure website to places they would not be normally exposed to.

6. Try pay per click advertising, one of the fastest ways to get traffic to your website.

7. Article marketing is a must, so if you aren’t already doing it then you need to start doing it now. Start submitting your articles to online article directories.

8. Do article swaps with other related websites in your market.

9. Search engine optimization is a must. You have to use the right keywords and keyword phrases to optimize your website in each and every search engine on the Internet.

10. Become involved in forum posting. Join and dissipate in as many forums related to your market as possible. Most search engines will recognize that each one of your posts equals equality link back to your website and this helps your search engine optimization.

11. Visit Yahoo! Answers and Google Groups and answer questions pertaining to your niche. In your reply, be sure to link to your website.

12. If you don’t have a blog, now is the time to create one. Blogs are highly effective in promoting your website and are becoming more popular with each and every day.

13. Write unique articles about your niche and submit them to quality article directories.

I have even more ideas that you can use to effectively promote your site but this list is more than enough to get you started. As a matter of fact, you really don’t need to do anything else until you start doing what’s in this list. As you start doing what’s listed here, more ideas will come and you’ll have another list of more site promotion ideas than you know what to do with Microsoft MCITP Certification!

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Laptop Hard Drive Recovery: What to do after data loss

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Laptop Hard Drive Recovery: What to do after data loss
You happen to be using your laptop when all over sudden all your information disappears! Or as you are carrying it, the bag strap accidentally gets cut and your laptop drops! So then, what do you do?

The good news is that your data can be recovered depending on the amount of damage and scope of the data. Your laptop can go through a hard drive recovery process so that your information may be retrieved. If, for example you lost data through accidental erasure, you may want to check your recycle bin. If it’s there, you can right-click on the file and choose the ‘Restore’ option and you will have recovered your data Microsoft MCTS Training.

Let’s say you don’t get your information in the recycle bin. You cab use ‘do-it-yourself’ recovery software to recover your files. This recovery software has got procedures and instructions that can be followed to retrieve the files. Such software can be downloaded free from the internet, even for free. But there is a risk involved: the software may or may not work and it has also been known to cause more damage if not carefully followed. More damage means more or even permanent data loss. This software should be used with IT technicians who have knowledge on the software, otherwise KEEP OFF or risk losing your data PERMANENTLY!

The most advisable thing to do after losing your laptop data is to call a data recovery specialist or company. These are people who have the necessary knowledge, skill and technology for recovering your data. They will carry out the necessary diagnosis and give a detailed report on the data can be recovered. For example, if your laptop hard drive fails and the problem is mechanical, the data recovery companies have special labs in which the hard drive can be opened and reconstructed. They also have the necessary software and technology for carrying out the data recovery process Microsoft MCITP Certification.

Therefore, if you lose your files, folders or anything important, make that all important call to the data recovery company. The choice is yours. Make it wisely!