Administrators

Leaders in Colorado school districts are trying to solve a big problem: They want to attract and retain teachers, bus drivers and other educators, but the state’s high cost of living keeps outpacing employees’ wages even after administrators dole out raises. So now they’re entering the housing market themselves. Districts are building tiny homes, becoming landlords and partnering with developers so that they can find ways to either lease housing to their employees at below-market rates or make homeownership possible for…

With Microsoft Hyper-V gaining more market share and coming of age, VMware administrators must administer Hyper-V alongside vSphere in their environments. There are certainly similarities in administering the various hypervisors, including VMware and Hyper-V, but there are also subtle differences as well. Often, out of habit, we apply what we know to things that we do not know or that are new to us. While certain methodologies or best practices extend past the boundaries of VMware vSphere and apply to Hyper-V as well,…

Tax administrators must keep up with the dynamics occasioned by disruptive new technologies of the 21st century, Muhammad Nami, President of the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators (CATA) and Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has said. Mr Nami said tax administrators must also arm themselves with the necessary skills, capacity and character for effective and efficient tax administration in the fourth industrial revolution age. According to a statement released on Monday,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain How do universities and colleges build safer campuses, and better respond to incidents of sexual and gender-based violence? There isn't a simple answer to this question. Whatever the response, any solution involves making difficult decisions based on valid tools. We are part of a national…

Photo: Peter Macdiarmid (Getty Images)Two privileged administrators of online encyclopedia Wikipedia were reportedly arrested by Saudi Arabian officials. The pair have been sentenced to 32 and eight years in prison for editing conflict critical of the government. The prison sentences predated a larger alleged Saudi espionage operation within the company which ultimately led Wikipedia to terminate each and every one of its administrators operating in the country. The bans were the result of an internal Wikimedia…

Database Administrators create databases as per the needs of the company and make sure they function effectively and efficiently. This is a grooming career path that is continuously growing with a rise of nearly 10 percent and an unemployment rate of just around 1.7 percent. In today’s fast-paced and media-driven life, information is so easily available. DBAs are the guardians of the treasure of information that implement security measures to ensure the security of sensitive information. The role of a developer includes…

Pension administrators have ended incentives they offered to win over subscribers after the regulator issued a directive prohibiting the offer of gifts to retirement savings account holders. The National Pension Commission had in October directed operators in the industry to end “unhealthy competition” among PFAs. According to PenCom’s spokesperson, Abdulqadir Dahiru, PFAs sent gifts such as birthday cakes and end of year gifts to account holders to dissuade them from switching to another administrator. Speaking…

The Edinburgh international film festival has been shut down with immediate effect after the charity that runs it, the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI), announced it had ceased trading and called in administrators. Edinburgh’s celebrated Filmhouse cinema, along with its sister cinema in Aberdeen, have also closed.CMI, which has operated both the film festival and the Filmhouse group since 2010, said in a statement: “The charity is facing the perfect storm of sharply rising costs, in particular energy costs, alongside…

Amazon. AMZN 2.43% com Inc. said it filed a lawsuit against the administrators of what it says are more than 10,000 Facebook groups used to coordinate fake reviews of Amazon products. Those in charge of the Facebook groups solicit the reviews for items ranging from camera tripods to car stereos in exchange for free products or money, Amazon said in a statement. The activity, which is against Amazon’s rules, occurs across…

Amazon recently said it has filed legal action against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups that attempt to orchestrate fake reviews on the platform in exchange for money or free products.The e-commerce giant said that it will use information discovered in the legal action to identify bad actors and remove fake reviews commissioned by these fraudsters that haven't already been detected.These groups are misleading reviews on Amazon's stores in the US, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan."Our…