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    Labor Market for IT Pros Stagnating: Report

    U.S. employment numbers released by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed a net gain of 4,400 IT-related jobs in November for the sixth straight month of net jobs gains in IT labor segments. Five bellweather IT job segments in the BLS data showed a net gain of 45,100 jobs from June…

    Channel Insider Staff

  • News and Trends

    Salesforce.com Challenges Oracle in Database Market

    Salesforce — the world’s biggest maker of cloud-based software that its customers access over the Internet — announced its new Database.com service on Tuesday as it diversifies its lineup of software programs for businesses. The company has long generated the bulk of its revenue from selling software for managing corporate sales and marketing activities, but…

    Channel Insider Staff

  • Cloud Computing

    Nimbula Announces Public Beta for Cloud Operating System Software

    At the Gartner Data Center Conference, Nimbula, a cloud operating system company, today announced the availability of the public beta of its Nimbula Director product, which delivers Amazon EC2-like services behind the firewall. The software is now available for free download via the company’s Website, according to a company release. Director is designed to transform…

    Nathan Eddy

  • News and Trends

    Consumer Health Tech Booms With Smartphones, Tablets

    Consumers are increasingly using smartphone and tablet PCs, such as the Apple iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab, to monitor their own health. This, according to a Dec. 6 report from research firm Ovum, is leading to the consumerization of health care technology. The report "2011 Trends to Watch: Health Care Technology" discusses how consumer…

    Channel Insider Staff

  • News and Trends

    Google Challenges Amazon, Apple in eReader Market

    SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) began selling digital books on Monday, intensifying the search engine’s competition with Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) and marking a significant push by the company to expand into the e-commerce business. The new online bookstore, dubbed Google eBooks, features 3 million titles, from newly…

    Channel Insider Staff

  • Cloud Computing

    Imperva Spinoff Incapsula Unveils Cloud Data Security Strategy

    Imperva, a provider of data security, unveiled a strategy designed to help cloud providers and small to medium-size businesses protect sensitive data against external and internal threats and comply with regulations such as PCI, SOX and HIPAA. Additionally, Imperva spinoff Incapsula will help Web hosters give SMBs Web application protection. For SMBs, Imperva spun off…

    Nathan Eddy

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