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IT Jobs on Upswing, But IT Pros Should Look Out Ahead
IT jobs grew by 8,800 in April, according to figures released by the U.S. Department of Labor in April, representing the largest net monthly job gain for IT since the Wall Street financial crisis began. But hang on a minute before you draw that big sigh of relief. While IT employment analysis firm Foot Partners…
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CDC Software Cloud Goes Mobile via Servicepower Partnership
Enterprise application software vendor CDC Software has tapped SaaS-based field service and management provider Servicepower for its new offering, and inked a dual OEM agreement that would provide an expanded mobile and field service market opportunity into both customer bases. As part of the deal, CDC will embed Servicepower’s SaaS solution into its existing eCommerce…
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Microsoft .NET Prevails over Google, Ruby on Rails
According to a recent Evans Data survey, Microsoft’s .NET was rated the best overall framework by software developers, over competing frameworks from Google and others. In Evans Data’s recently released Users’ Choice Survey on Frameworks, the market research company asked developers to rank 10 different attributes of the frameworks they have used. Microsoft’s .NET came…
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Seagate Offers Storage Drives with Connection Flexibility
SAN FRANCISCO — Seagate on May 5 launched a new generation of its FreeAgent external storage hard drives, naming them GoFlex — with the spotlight on connection flexibility. The key new feature throughout the line is this: Never again will a user have to buy a whole new drive just because the USB port has…
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SGI Rolls Out Altix ICE 8400 HPC Server Blades
SGI is updating its Altix ICE blade servers with the latest x86 processors from both Intel and Advanced Micro Devices and a bulked-up InfiniBand network designed to increase scalability. SGI’s Altix ICE 8400, announced May 5 and aimed at the HPC (high-performance computing) space, can scale as high as 65,536 nodes, and can be powered…