CSTechcast.com brings you the podcast for IT Pros; a "Top 10" according to CIO Insight. This week we talk with Jim Thor, network engineer for Wild Packets, about VoIP in the enterprise and how to identify the pitfalls and get a successful system in place. Find more on their solutions at WildPackets.com. In the news, IT sees a slight uptick in jobs, Ruby is becoming the programming language of choice for techies in emerging markets, not all is well at the Sun acquired MySQL with David Axmark and Michael Widenius resigning, IBM will be providing core IBM software such as DB2 and WebSphere from Amazon's Web Services cloud platform, and Microsoft puts a $250,000 bounty on the head of the Conficker Worm's author. A Canadian court's ruling that ISP logs are fair game for authorities gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at hiring a consultant versus hiring an employee, and we help you protect against the Conficker Worm in "The Weekly Tech Tip".
Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:Some IT Jobs Defy Employment Downturn (InformationWeek)Ruby Shines in Emerging Markets (eWeek)MySQL Exits May Open Sun Customers To Other Databases (InformationWeek)IBM To Deliver Software Via Amazon's Cloud (InformationWeek)Microsoft Offers $250,000 Bounty For Worm Authors (InformationWeek)Canadian judge: No warrant needed to see ISP logs (Ars Technica)Virus alert about the Win32/Conficker.B worm (Microsoft.com)
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