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Announced that performance and availability views from F5 Networks, Inc. devices are now available in the NetQoS Performance Center. The integration provides real-time performance metrics in a single Web-based management console supporting multiple devices from F5, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. In addition to ease of access and strengthened security, joint customers will benefit from the NetQoS Performance Center’s analysis and alerting capabilities to more quickly address network problems and improve application delivery across the network.

“F5 devices are a critical component of the application delivery infrastructure that network, operations, and infrastructure personnel must optimize to keep their businesses running smoothly,” said Jim Ritchings, vice president of business development at F5. “By integrating with F5, NetQoS can help simplify the increasingly complex challenge of monitoring network and application performance across an organization. For joint customers this means a single view into an unlimited number of F5 devices and detailed performance metrics delivered in real time through the NetQoS Performance Center.”

The NetQoS Performance Center delivers the most comprehensive performance visibility available for the F5(R) BIG-IP(R) Local Traffic Manager(TM) and BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager(TM) solutions. The combination enables IT professionals to better plan investments in new content delivery hardware, accurately size and configure new IT deployments, verify the impact investments have on application delivery, and solve performance issues in complex data center environments.

“Customers have been requesting that NetQoS integrate F5 statistics into the NetQoS Performance Center for a more comprehensive view of network and application performance across an organization,” said Gordon Daugherty, senior vice president of corporate development for NetQoS. “By incorporating the performance and availability metrics from F5 devices, the NetQoS Performance Center will help joint customers solve problems faster and make more informed decisions in infrastructure changes and capacity planning.”

Texas’ community colleges offer more than just basic classes for students hoping to enter the technical workforce or transfer to a four-year university. The colleges also offer capstone courses that prove a graduate’s expertise in a particular field.

A mandate issued by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board requires students studying workforce-related industries such as business studies, health sciences, advanced technologies and applied technology at Austin Community College and other Texas community colleges to enroll in a capstone class.

The class consolidates two years’ worth of education in a particular field at a community college into a class, group, portofolio or individual project, or a final exam that is completed during the student’s graduating semester, said Mike Midgley, ACC’s vice president of workforce education and business development.

ACC video game development students are required to complete a capstone project in the form of an art portfolio or design project pertaining to the student’s field, Zuzolo said.

He said the gaming program’s capstone courses allow students to show their proficiency and capability in developing video games. The projects produced in the course make up a portfolio and help secure positions in the industry, Zuzolo said.

For his capstone project in Webmaster design, ACC alumnus Bob Million showcased his skill in Web page design by launching two Web sites.

Million received a bachelor’s degree in computer science and management from ACC before entering the school’s Web site design program. Million owns Million Design Group, an Austin-based Web site design company.

“I wanted to learn specific skills from the program,” Million said. “From the courses I took and the projects I completed with ACC, I had the skills to start my own business.”

Capstone courses are also a common requirement for undergraduates and graduates at four-year universities and institutions, which officials and professors say help culminate students’ academic experience.

UT School of Information graduate students must complete a capstone class in their final semester, which integrates the students’ professional education and specific area of study.

Information studies graduate student Adam Knowles said the program is similar to an internship. Graduate students find positions at an institution where they can assimilate into their vocational environment.

Jaduka has expanded its enterprise, voice and transaction services team with the appointment of telecommunications and Internet industry veteran Patrick Murphy as Vice President of Business Development.

Mr. Murphy has eighteen years of business development, sales, and management experience in the telecommunications and Internet industries. In 2007, he co-founded and served as chief operating officer at The Thomas Howe Company, the industry’s first voice mash-up consultancy. At Thomas Howe, Murphy advised clients on the integration of real-time communications technologies into business processes. During his tenure, Thomas Howe was recognized as one of the most influential voices in the VoIP industry.

Jaduka President Jack Rynes said, “Jaduka technology innovation, network reliability and telecom experience are driving rapid adoption of our voice and transaction services. Patrick Murphy brings those same qualities innovation, reliability and experience to our business development team. We’re delighted to welcome him to Jaduka.”

Jaduka Vice President of Business Development Patrick Murphy added, “I’m delighted to be working at Jaduka. Their APIs and carrier-grade telco infrastructure, in my view, represent the defacto standard for integrating voice mash-ups and communications enabled business processes (CEBP) into enterprise applications.”

Mr. Murphy shares his expertise through blogs and speaks at industry events on topics including voice mash-ups, CEBP, and enterprise 2.0. He also serves on the Boards of several companies.

7strategy, a Kansas City-based full service web design and development firm announced today that 7strategy has been honored as the Top 10 Most Dependable Web Design Firms, by Goldline Research.

Goldline made the announcement with a feature of 7strategy in Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine. Firms were first selected and pre-screened using private and public sources. Research of the initially chosen web design companies took place over several months and the final list was later refined using specific criteria including: customer satisfaction surveys, number of clients, productivity measurements and client references.

Ted Paff, Goldline Research President says, “Being selected for The 10 Most Dependable list clearly sets these companies apart from their competitors. Companies on The 10 Most Dependable list are considered high-quality companies that have achieved a level of excellence in customer service and professionalism.”

7strategy Vice President of Business Development, Rasvir Mustan says, “We’re proud to have received this award - and is a real testament to our team’s capabilities and the trust we’ve established with our clients. This kind of ranking,” continued Mustan, “will help strategically position 7strategy for future growth and competitive advantage.”

Speaking at the annual Thinking Digital IT conference in Gateshead, representatives from handset manufacturers and mobile operators argued that flat rate tariffs, greater interoperability and new technologies like GPS have accelerated usage and spurred the a new dawn for the mobile web

“This is the second chance for everyone to deliver on the promise of the late 90s,” said mobile strategist and ex-O2 executive, Bradley de Souza.

“Then, it was premature from a technology perspective, the marketing didn’t line up with what was being delivered and although there was collaboration from the developer community, the stars didn’t align.”

Mark Selby, vice president of sales and industry collaboration at Nokia, argued that the operators’ walled garden approach to browsing is also collapsing, leading to greater take-up of the mobile web. Some Nokia figures point to data usage on smart phones nearing 90 percent of total usage, he added.

“Our research shows that the amount of time people are browsing, accessing and uploading content is incredible,” said Selby.

Others commented that good content holds the key to the success of the mobile web. Vikesh Patel, European general manager for products at Motorola, said that uptake will rocket “if you get the content right and people want it”.

“There are a lot of people [in the industry] with different opinions,” he added. “The network operators don’t want to be just bit pipes but it really needs developers to feed the ecosystem to grow it.”

De Souza argued that mobile platform providers and other stakeholders need to be more open in order to facilitate and encourage the developer community.

“On the Symbian platform the developers can’t even get their test apps onto users’ phones to gauge their usability,” he added. “Microsoft has done well to [encourage openness] but it’s not well structured.”

Gerhard Grech, director of strategy and business development at Orange, agreed that content is king on the mobile, but argued that simplifying the presentation and accessibility to that content will be key to its popularity.

“You need to do something completely different in the way you present that content,” he explained. “Widgets are a good hybrid [technology] to catch people’s imagination – it’s where the interface, browser and service all comes together in a very compelling way.”

Motorola’s Patel added that widgets are a “great way to cut through the layers of menu” and open up the mobile web to users.

OSU’s Technology Business Assessment Group will fund four faculty research projects for spring 2008. The group identified these one-year projects from a number of excellent proposals submitted in response to a solicitation earlier this spring. Funding for the program is administered by the OSU Office of Intellectual Property Management, and is generated by royalties from OSU-licensed technologies. These funded projects show a significant probability of having commercial success.

“We are pleased that the OIPM royalty stream allowed us to hold yet another competition for the spring of 2008,” Steve Price, director of OIPM, said. “It’s exciting to be able to continue the trend of developing OSU research into viable commercial products.”

Created in 2005, TBAG funds projects in need of feasibility demonstration and/or prototype development for commercialization purposes. The group is comprised of private sector partners experienced in new product identification and new technology evaluation, representation from i2E, early-stage capital investors, bankers, representation from Meridian Technology Center for Business Development, the OSU Center for Innovation and Economic Development, the OSU Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer, the OSU Associate Vice President for Technology Development and OSU-Okmulgee.

Big-D Construction, a Salt Lake City-based construction management company, named Gifford Briggs project development manager of its Lindon office. Briggs will oversee all marketing and project proposals, management of project pre-construction, and will be involved in all other aspects of business development.

Briggs, who holds a bachelor’s degree in construction management with a minor in business management from Brigham Young University, has worked in many different areas of the construction industry for the past 10 years — five of which have been at Big-D. He had served in the commercial construction sector as a project engineer, estimator, marketing manager, senior project manager and project development manager.

SLC advertising firm adds two workers — Love Communications, a Salt Lake City-based advertising agency, added two employees to its interactive services division. Jared McPherson was hired as its motion graphics designer and Mike Dodge, its Web developer.

McPherson will specialize in developing Web sites, banners and CD interfaces in media campaigns as well as in front-end Web development. Before joining Love Communications, McPherson was a motion graphics designer for McCann-Erickson. Dodge will be responsible for Web and IT solutions for the agency’s clients. Before joining the agency, Dodge was the Web developer for Clear Link Technologies, where he built Web application servers and managed highly sensitive and complex information relating to upcoming company projects. Prior to that, Dodge taught Web development at Brigham Young University.

BYU’s Romney Institute honors humanitarian — Carolyn Grow Dailey, president and CEO of Ascend Alliance, a Holladay-based humanitarian group, was named 2008 Administrator of the Year by Brigham Young University’s Romney Institute of Public Management. The award is given annually to an individual who has achieved distinction after many years of management in the public or nonprofit sector.

In her 17 years as an international humanitarian executive, Dailey has organized community development programs and leading internships. As president and CEO of Ascend, Dailey helps combat poverty in developing countries by implementing programs in education, enterprise, health and technology. She has previously served as CEO of Choice Humanitarian.

Minutes after attending a seminar titled “Use Social Networking to Your Professional Advantage,” I opened my e-mail and found two invitations to join LinkedIn.com networks.

One came from a person I’d had professional contact with previously. I clicked “accept” and went on to other things. I didn’t recognize the other name, so I closed the e-mail without response. And, thanks to Ellen Levy, I didn’t feel bad about the tacit rejection.

Levy, vice president of corporate development and strategy at LinkedIn.com, just presented an overview of Internet social networking sites at the Central Exchange’s annual Women’s Lyceum, an educational and networking event. Understanding that attendees came to the conference from many different backgrounds and levels of Web familiarity, Levy prefaced her user advice with a primer. First, she explained, there was Web 1.0 — the mostly one-directional flow of information over the Internet. Think of Web pages.

We’re now in the age of Web 2.0 — an era of two-way communication that in three years spawned a host of interactive social networking sites. A show of hands indicated that about half the people used LinkedIn, a professional networking Web site, to build business relationships.

Even if you’ve never been on a social networking site, you understand the concept: It’s a cyberspace handshake. It facilitates connections. It does what Rotary meetings, phone calls, cocktail parties and e-mail have done for years.

Let’s say Joe wants a job at Hallmark Cards. Joe doesn’t know anybody in the human resources department or target department where he wants to work. But he is good friends with Sally, who has a Hallmark Gold Crown store. Sally knows people in Hallmark’s retail division. One, Bill, is the main liaison with Joan in the human resources department. And Joan knows that Fred is exactly the right person for Joe to meet. Fred, meet Joe. Joe, here’s Fred, who has someone vouching for him.

I made up that scenario, but that’s the six-degrees-of-separation concept.

A professional networking Web site might help make the connections that have always been an essential ingredient in job hunting, business development and sales prospecting. (A user also can get a wealth of professional responses quickly when posting a question on the appropriate area of the site.)

Levy emphasized that Web-based networking sites are only as good as the veracity and relevance of the people using them.

A LinkedIn connection may not make sense if you accept an invitation to join one’s professional network if you don’t know the person or don’t have ties to one’s business skills or services. “It should be a tool to leverage relationships you already have,” Levy said.

And a good professional network site should never be confused with a social networking site such as Facebook. The purposes are completely different, she said.

A professional networking site can be a good way to put your business profile — basically your resume and the services you can offer — online, where they can be seen by millions of other site users. It can spread “the message of you” a lot further and faster than passing out business cards and shaking hands at meetings.

But as much as Levy championed the professional development possibilities of Web 2.0, she reminded attendees of something that most knew well: “Time is a scarce resource.” Use networking sites judiciously. Understand that others might not have the time you do to dig deep into the site. And, most of all, she said, don’t get sucked into making a contest out of how many “connections” you can list. It’s not a matter of quantity; it’s the quality that counts.

The University of Central Oklahoma office of the Oklahoma Small Business Development Center has been named one of the top 10 small business development centers in the nation after winning the regional “Small Business Development Center Excellence and Innovation Award” from the U.S. Small Business Administration.

UCO’s development center office competed against small business development centers in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Texas for the award after winning a similar award on a state level.

The center, which helps those throughout central Oklahoma who want to start or expand a small business, is now in the running to win the national award, which would recognize it as the top small business development center in the country.

Susan Urbach, director of UCO’s development center office, believes they stood out from other centers because of their emphasis on pro-activity and innovative technology.

“We are so excited about this award. I believe that what makes us special is the fact that we focus very much on staying at the forefront of information and technology. By always embracing change and development, we can be as efficient as possible in assisting our clients,” she said.

“We strive to teach them how to go from young businesses to professional status by turning their ideas into professional realities. You might say we help give their ideas both wings and feet.”

James Faulconer, president of MIDI for Kids and a former professor of music theory and composition, wanted to start a business that helps children learn to problem-solve through music. He went to the OSBDC for help.

Today, he credits Urbach and the OSBDC for MIDI’s success, which is currently helping 1,500 students and has been noted by some major music instrument manufacturers as the nation’s largest independent after-school music program.

“With Susan’s help, we now have programs in nearly 100 schools in five states and our Web site organization is truly amazing,” Faulconer said. “Oklahoma is really fortunate to have the devotion to purpose and inspirational guidance available through OSBDC. Without Susan and OSBDC, our business would simply not exist.”

UCO’s OSBDC is a bilingual organization that serves about 500 individual clients annually, helping the Oklahoma economy create 330 new jobs last year.

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