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Cloud-Savvy IT Professionals See Abundant Opportunity
A recent study of technology job want ads shows a 61 percent increase in demand nationwide for IT professionals with cloud computing experience. The study, which is based on ads posted by about 2,400 businesses, was performed by Wanted Analytics, a firm that provides business intelligence for the talent marketplace. “This growth spurt shows that…
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Microsoft Partners With BT to Push Lync Voice Services Into Cloud
In what may be a sign of the times, Microsoft is expanding the footprint of its Lync platform further into the cloud. The company has launched a pilot program with telecom giant British Telecom to begin offering an enterprise-class platform to host dedicated Microsoft Lync Voice service. The pilot augments BT’s existing global Managed Lync…
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Western Digital Debuts My Book Live Duo Personal Cloud Storage Platform
Digital storage solutions specialist Western Digital (WD) introduced My Book Live Duo, a personal cloud storage system that combines shared storage and remote access with double-safe backup or increased capacity of a dual-drive system with RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology. My Book Live Duo is available in 4TB and 6TB capacities and is…
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Asetek Combats Data Center Heat With Liquid Cooling
Heat is one of the biggest enemies in the data center, with the potential to cost both an enterprise and an IT department a lot of money. Heat generation in the data center contributes to system failures, reduces component life, increases environmental control costs and can be difficult and expensive to mitigate. Hardware vendor Asetek…
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The State Of The Data Center
The State Of The Data Center The 509,147 data centers worldwide occupy 285,831,541 square feet of property. No Title That’s the size of 5,955 football fields. No Title 1.2 trillion GB of data will be generated over the course of this year. No Title That’s like handing every person on earth 10 16GB iPods. No…
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Data Management Software Revenue to Surge in 2012: Gartner
Worldwide master data management (MDM) software revenue will reach $1.9 billion in 2012, a 21 percent increase from 2011, according to IT research firm Gartner. And the market is forecast to reach $3.2 billion by 2015. The report found the overall MDM market is dominated by three major players–IBM, Oracle and SAP–although within the overall…
