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10-year forecast shows growth in network architect jobs while sysadmin roles shrink

Network World

The two categories that are expected to decline are network and computer systems administrators, which are forecast to decline by 2.6%, and computer programmers, which are facing a 9.6% growth and 23,900 jobs added Computer network support specialists: 7.3% growth and 12,100 jobs added Network and computer systems administrators: -2.6%

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Thinking of moving off VMware? Gartner tallies cost of large-scale VMware migration

Network World

This includes acquisition of new software licenses and/or cloud expenses, hardware purchases (compute, storage), early termination costs related to the existing virtual environment, application testing/quality assurance and test equipment, the report reads.

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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs and other executives identified familiar IT roles that will need to evolve to stay relevant, including traditional software development, network and database management, and application testing. Look for leaders you can connect with and invest in these relationships so you can build a mentor network.

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FCC post-mortem on AT&T outage uncovers similar QA issues to those that plagued CrowdStrike

Network World

A February AT&T network outage that lasted 12 hours and affected all of its mobile network users was due to a misconfiguration that occurred during a “routine night maintenance” that failed to meet required quality assurance (QA) policies before it was deployed, according to a US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) post-mortem report.

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Survive the Economic Downturn and Pave the Way for Innovation in Automotive and Networking

IT Toolbox

Suggestions to Optimize Holiday Sales, Quality Assurance and Connectivity. The post Survive the Economic Downturn and Pave the Way for Innovation in Automotive and Networking appeared first on.

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Accelerating quality-assured 5G RAN rollout

TM Forum

This proof of concept project is looking at ways to accelerate the implementation of 5G RANs to to address the time-consuming drags on network deployment.

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The Dominican Republic, Ghana & Guatemala join the Spearline network

Spearline Testing

Welcome The Dominican Republic, Ghana & Guatemala to the Spearline network! We are delighted to let you know that you can now test your mobile numbers in the Dominican Republic, Ghana, and Guatemala across the countries’ major mobile networks – bringing Spearline’s global coverage to 79 countries. New to Spearline?

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