Unless companies resolve to rewrite most of their legacy applications, VMware has a great future as the orchestrator of the ongoing, legacy and somewhat uncloudlike enterprise data center. In many cases, "private cloud"...
In reply to: The well-orchestrated legacy data center
The reference to single sign on for California citizens makes me think that this is intended for as a web hosting infrastructure to be shared between state and local government for services to the public. Is that the case? If...
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That's a big win for IBM. Do you know if Amazon, Rackspace or any other cloud provider also bid?
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I'm scratching my head to what that is as well "information insight enabler". I have heard of user interface designer and some of my friends have told me that this field is growing. Just knowing tech skills is...
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I take this report to mean that IT is becoming more and more a mainstream occupation. IT people are no longer just developing IT, rather they are applying IT to all phases of the economy. IT expertise is becoming more and...
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Salesforce has been known in the past for pre-announce/re-announce syndrome. It was very refreshing last year when it announced and actually introduced Salesforce1 -- GA -- on the same day at Dreamforce. In fact, the mobile...
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There's a long food chain betweem writing the first line of code and maintaining production systems. Docker is focused on packaging up finished code and moving it around in a more formatted, automated way. As long it sticks...
In reply to: A containment policy for Docker
I hesitated to put GE on the same list with Intel, Google Capital, and HP because its investment in Pivotal has a lot more going on -- like cloud and next-era development -- than just Hadoop. But it was an investment in...
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@tekedge- Definitely some of these really expensive machines solving specific problems will raise the cost of healthcar.e. But several of these are intended to do the opposite. the blood drawing robot, the elder care robot,...
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For years I have been reading about ways to kill tumours without surgery but nothing has been realized yet. A maggot sized bot sounds interesting but so did all the other theories I have heard. I remember one where they...
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What else might Docker look to acquire, Charlie?
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Nadella is never going to sound like an everyman. But must he, to get his job done?
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You jest (I hope) but I have both a Chromebook and an iPad for personal stuff and vastly prefer the Chromebook. The iPad sits idle 99% of the time. Swiping and typing on glass just don't feel as natural as a trackpad and...
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Thanks for your insights Linda! We enjoyed your visits, and wish you well in your endeavors!
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"Yeah. We lost grandma." So funny -- and true. Thanks for sharing your perspective, Scott.
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Don't discount this working both ways. As I write this, the Windows Phone store has an Ookla speed test app. However, the Windows 8 desktop modern app store doesn't have an equivalent. I suspect Ookla expects...
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"Collaboration evangelist" has me scratching my head a bit too.
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Chris is right, it's always smart to tailor your approach for the listener, whether you are a man or a woman. It's just there is more at stake during salary negotiations.
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It did not, though I'd guess an iteration of data scientist, too.
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So true. Having no API at this point is just suicidal.
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The differences between mobile apps and conventional Windows clients, or even web applications, are far more than skin deep. Yes, the touch-versus-keyboard interface, APIs, and programming languages are new, but that’s arguably the easy part. There are profound differences in how the two are built, the functionality each prioritizes, the release cycles on which they’re developed — even the attitudes, values, and work styles of the developers creating them.
IT Salary Survey 2014: Insurance
Insurance IT salaries are flat, but demand and compensation are highest for people with experience in social media, mobile, analytics, and cloud, according to InformationWeek's 2014 US IT Salary Survey.
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