Job Descriptions for System Administrators (SAGE Short Topics in System Administration) - Softcover

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Organizations that rely on computing resources to carry out their missions have always depended on system administration and system administrators. The dramatic increase in the number and size of distributed networks of workstations in recent years has created a tremendous demand for more, and better trained, system administrators. Understanding of the profession of system administration on the part of employers, however, has not kept pace with the growth in the number of system administrators or with the growth in complexity of system administration tasks. Both at sites with a long history of using computing resources and at sites into which computers have only recently been introduced, system administrators face perception problems that present serious obstacles to the successful execution of their duties.