Technology

CCNA R&S Exam Prep Question of the Week

July 18, 2014 Johnny Bass Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Which of the following are characteristics of the 802.1Q protocol?

The Relationship Between SDN and Cloud Computing

July 17, 2014 John Hales Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

SDN and its cousin NFV provide the networking capabilities to truly automate cloud computing.

Four Questions That Can Increase Sales Team Revenue

July 17, 2014 Training Industry Articles Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Hiring and firing are necessary, but often undesirable activities for any sales manager. They can distract from the core roles of leading, managing, and coaching, and create gaps as new hires take time to come up to speed in your organization. Additionally, new hires bring their own weaknesses and challenges to the team, which sometimes amount to little improvement over the previous rep’s weaknesses and challenges.

A New Sales Assessment Breed

July 17, 2014 Training Industry Articles Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

People in sales are a unique breed.

It’s up to them, more than anyone else, to be the face of your products and brand in the marketplace. And developing sales people to be the best in turn yields a measurable result: sales.

Lessons Learned Deploying Hadoop

July 16, 2014 Rich Morrow Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

So you’ve done your research and quickly realized that Hadoop is going to be at the very core of your company’s Big Data Platform, given that data storage and processing will never get more cost effective than open-source software running on commodity hardware. The next level down the rabbit hole has you in a quandary, though. Beyond Hadoop, you start running into technologies like Hive, Impala, Pig, Storm, YARN and other elements from Hadoop’s periodic table of technologies.