By the time you’re reading this in a bookstore, BizTalk will have celebrated its tenth birthday. Over the past decade, there have been seven releases of Microsoft’s enterprise integration server, and it has become the most broadly deployed integration middleware technology in the industry, with over 10,000 customers worldwide....

Let’s just look it right in the eye and call it out. We in the IT industries have been barraged with the buzzwords over and over again since we rolled into the new millennium: the transition to utility computing, or grid computing, or cloud computing (depending on the source/exact month/position of the stars in the sky). We’ve...

The telecommunications industry is changing rapidly in its quest to converge voice and data on high-performance multiservice networks that are designed to meet virtually any business and consumer need. These nextgeneration networks are being driven as much by the revenue-generating potential of new integrated applications as they are by the...

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150 Best Jobs for Your Skills identifies the top ten skills that are the most important in today’s economy, based on data from the U.S. Department of Labor and the latest O*NET. It helps job seekers find a fulfilling job and students explore their future career options by focusing on the 50 most promising jobs for each skill. It...

The 21st-century world is a fundamentally interdependent place. Globalization has expanded, intensified, and accelerated social relations across world-time and world-space. The digital revolution has served as a catalyst for the creation of sprawling information and communication networks that enmesh individuals, states, and businesses alike....

Cryptography has made a peculiar journey to become a modern science. It had long been associated with the military and with magic. The rst published work in the eld was Steganographia, by an alchemist named Trithemius. Although written earlier, the book was published in 1606. Cryptography has continued this connection with the arcane...