Linda, thank you for your commentary. I agree with some of your comments and not with others. First I'd like to say that the title CIO is a misnomer in my opinion. Generally the people with the CIO title...
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Linda, thank you for your commentary. I agree with some of your comments and not with others. First I'd like to say that the title CIO is a misnomer in my opinion. Generally the people with the CIO title...
In reply to: Re: Thank you Linda.
This is good news for VMware, EMC (which is probably providing a good chunk of the hardware) and users who want to offer more x-as-a-service offerings such as IT-as-a-Service. More virtualization is also good for the environment...
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Yes, web hosting is part of the CalCloud infrastructure and it enables single-on.
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First and foremost, will people be able to really trust Facebook with their credit card numbers? Partly due to Facebook's reputation for "oops, my bad" style privacy breaches as well as the recent high profile data thefts...
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The minimal requirements for every health IT job listing I've read during the last 18 months contain an item that automatically disqualifies the vast majority of tech developers and interface designers: X years [or months]...
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With a study that started over 60 years ago when there was a huge social push to conform and be with others like you, I wonder if the study started today, how it might change. But then again I was the oddball that played...
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I was really surprised by these results. 10 minutes and people would rather shock themselves? Obviously they didn't get any parents with young kids, where 10 minutes of nothing might be entirely relaxing. While i don't often...
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IBM only told me that it was a "competitive win." But wouldn't name names.
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It never was enough @Pedro. My BS in Comp Sci from 1985 also included a minor in business. That has probably served me better than the tech side because the technology has changed so much. That allowed me early in my career...
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I now want the querky typewriter keyboard. It's adorable. Always wanted an old typewriter but wondered where i'd put it. Using it as a tablet keyboard would be awesome. One hint for new kickstarters, especially that cockroach...
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One thing to consider in pay raise slow down is that the typical "big" raises come with promotions. And with the economic slowdown many baby boomers aren't retiring, so the 40 something's can't move up, resulting in a celing...
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Next up: Job Title Obstrufication Enabler. VP of Obscure Titles
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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"...
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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...
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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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InformationWeek Tech Digest - July 22, 2014Sophisticated attacks demand real-time risk management and continuous monitoring. Here's how federal agencies are meeting that challenge.
Building a Mobile Business Mindset
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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