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Traditional IT Jobs Transformed As Businesses Outsource
While the July U.S. Department of Labor employment report was greeted with relief by many who saw the addition of 117,000 jobs as a big plus that could indicate the job market is finally moving again, employment expert David Foote, CEO of Foote Partners had another take on the news. “The idea that the July…
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Cloud Security Alliance Introduces Provider Trust and Assurance Registry
The Cloud Security Alliance announced the launch of a new initiative to encourage transparency of security practices within cloud providers. The CSA Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR) is a free, publicly accessible registry that documents the security controls provided by various cloud computing offerings, thereby helping users assess the security of cloud providers they…
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HTC Eyes Cloud with Dashwire Acquisition
HTC is clearly interested in competing with Apple and other companies in the mobile-cloud game, snatching up a Seattle-based company known for its device-syncing software. Financials of the agreement between the manufacturer and Seattle-based Dashwire remained undisclosed, but the latter will become a wholly owned subsidiary of HTC. Dashwire s Dashworks platform allows users to…
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Yahoo’s Head Cloud Architect Departs for VC Firm
Yahoo lost a key thought leader when vice president and chief cloud systems architect, Todd Papaioannou, announced his departure from the company to take a new job as entrepreneur in residence at venture capital firm Battery Ventures, GigaOm reported Aug. 5. Battery Ventures, which has offices on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif., in…
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Nexsan Launches E5000 Line of NAS Storage Systems
Nexsan, an independent provider of disk-based storage systems, announced the first two models of the E5000 Family of NAS storage systems, the E5110 and the E5310. Both models utilize the FASTier cache, which utilizes multiple SSD technologies that work transparently to boost performance for random I/O workloads including applications that are run on top of…
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IT Job Training to Tackle the Skills Gap
For an industry with such a strong hand in shaping our futures, IT often has fallen short in one important area: training people for tech careers. It’s not that there isn’t any training. Plenty of vendors, channel companies and third parties offer quality IT training, but curricula typically are designed for people already in the…