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When software fails a bunch of future lawyers IBM opening two state-of-the-art disaster recovery/resiliency centers Network World Daily News PM August 12, 2014 Share this email Big Data scientists get 100 recruiter emails a day A lot of people—myself included—have long been talking about how big data changes everything. But big data's biggest disruption may be in the high-tech labor market. Forget mobile app developers—a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend makes it clear that the most in-demand tech skill is now data science.According to author Elizabeth Dwoskin, these elusive "unicorns," with the skills to "extract and interpret the explosion of data from Internet clicks, machines and smartphones," are being fought over with manic intensity. While some have questioned the reality of the data scientist shortage (see How many data scientists does the world really need?), Dwoskin quotes the head of Booz Allen Hamilton's data science group claiming that "anyone with 'data science in his or her job title is going to get '100 recruiter' emails a day." Even more striking, that's only one part of the frantic search to fill up to 36,000 openings at up to 6,000 companies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. When software fails a bunch of future lawyers 2. IBM opening two state-of-the-art disaster recovery/resiliency centers 3. The most ironic hold music ever 4. Reviews: Logitech's social video camera and Dell's universal docking station 5. Texas, Florida, North Carolina lead IT job growth in first half of 2014, study finds 6. Cortana reported to take a major role in Windows 9 7. Remembering comedian/actor Robin Williams: His Siri schtick 8. 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Read Now When software fails a bunch of future lawyers This should go without saying: If you sell software that law students depend upon to become full-fledged lawyers, you had better make sure it works when those students need it most, in other words when they take their bar exams.From an AP story: So in late July, with one day of the grueling session behind them, thousands of law students were surprised to find that they couldn't upload their answers using the software they purchased from Florida-based ExamSoft Worldwide Inc.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE IBM opening two state-of-the-art disaster recovery/resiliency centers IBM is about to cut the ribbon officially opening two new state-of-the-art data centers intended to provide disaster recovery and resiliency services, one in the Raleigh, N.C. area and other in Mumbai, India.According to Alice Williams, IBM director of strategy and portfolio for global business continuity and resiliency services, the Raleigh center just opening now is about 72,000 square feet of raised floor to accommodate a wide range of needs associated with backup and recovery with an additional 8,000 sq. ft. for purposes such as tape data storage. With high-speed connectivity available from multiple service providers as well as dark fiber line connections, the center is also designed to support the IBM SoftLayer technology approach to tasks associated with virtual machine redundancy and Big Data processing at Infiniband speeds up to 56Gbps.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE The most ironic hold music ever It was the second time I had called the office of my father's primary care physician this morning. And the second time I was put on hold for longer than I would have liked. But at least I got a laugh out of hearing Mick Jagger sing a song that should never, ever be heard by anyone while they are on hold: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." So here's the question: Someone has to decide what music is foisted upon people as they wait on hold. And that someone in this case decided "Satisfaction" would be just the ticket. 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The Bemo (not to be confused with the character "BMO" from the "Adventure Time" cartoon) is a small video camera that can record quick clips or time-lapse videos at the touch of a button. Synchronizing the Bemo with your iPhone via Bluetooth gives you additional functionality, such as the ability to see where the camera is pointed, as well as some basic video editing to let you create short movies, add filters, titles and music. The camera is geared to users who like to create short video via their smartphone using apps like Vine or Instagram, but with the added benefits of having a smaller, rugged and water-resistant camera that can be clipped onto clothing (or worn via an included lanyard). Videos are recorded onto an included 4GB microSD card. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Texas, Florida, North Carolina lead IT job growth in first half of 2014, study finds U.S. technology professionals searching for jobs may want to look in states not normally considered IT hot spots.The three states with the highest percentage of IT job growth for the first half of 2014 were Texas at 5.99 percent, Florida at 5.64 percent and North Carolina at 3.8 percent, according to a report from IT job site Dice.The top 10 states in the report "are growing from a lower base compared to a state like California so it's more about the rate of growth," said Shravan Goli, president of Dice, which reached its findings by analyzing employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.Companies in traditional technology hubs such as New York and California are still hiring, but those states have a larger employment base, he said. California employs the most technology professionals in the U.S. and New York, at 3.08 percent, had the sixth-highest growth rate in the first six months of the year, the report noted. Washington, home to Microsoft and Amazon.com, ranked fifth in the growth rate at 3.53 percent.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Cortana reported to take a major role in Windows 9 With Windows 8.1 pretty much left for dead, emphasis and interest is now on Windows 9, and it looks like we may finally get our own J.A.R.V.I.S.Neowin, which is generally pretty good on Windows stories, reports that Microsoft has bumped up the Cortana audio assistant from engineering builds to "a more stable release cycle."As Neowin put it, this means Cortana is no longer in the state of "let us see if this works," and is in more of a "let us push this forward and see if we can ship it" stage. 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Learn more Remembering comedian/actor Robin Williams: His Siri schtick Robin Williams didn't shy away from taking on technology in his acting, comedy performances READ MORE Amazon protects its virtual desktops with two-factor authentication Amazon Web Services now lets enterprises use two-factor authentication to better protect hosted WorkSpaces virtual desktops.The steady stream of incidents in which hackers have been able to access traditional passwords highlight the need for something more secure over and over again. Adding so-called two-factor authentication increases security by validating users with something they know (a regular password) and something they have (a hardware or software generated one-time password).Protecting Workspaces desktops with two-factor authentication helps prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to enterprise resources, while defending against password attacks such as phishing and keystroke logging. The feature itself is available now at no extra charge, Amazon said in a blog post.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Splunk digs deeper with Stream app for network monitoring Splunk's new App for Stream will give IT departments more insight into their infrastructures by collecting network traffic on response times, network performance and database queries.The goal with App for Stream is to expand on what organizations can learn from data collected and analyzed using its existing enterprise and cloud products. The app offers a software approach for capturing network traffic, or what Splunk calls wire data, which makes it easier to monitor public clouds in particular than when using hardware appliances.The expansion hasn't happened overnight—to increase the usefulness of its platform Splunk bought Cloudmeter in December last year. 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