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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
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Confront consumerization with convergence
Virtualization expert Elias Khnaser spotlights the security, compliance, and governance issues that arise when enterprise users "consumerize" with shadow IT and public cloud services. And he provides a prescription for modifying this behavior with a private cloud hosted on a robust converged infrastructure. Learn More
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Charting Your Analytical Future
Date: August 26, 2014, 11:00 AM EDT The ability to embed prediction into multiple business processes amplifies the value that predictive analytics delivers. Yet many still see predictive analytics as a separate activity that is the responsibility of a small team of expert analysts. Register Now>>
Dell bundles backup software, eyes further development
Dell is organizing the backup software products that it has acquired in the past two years into a coherent portfolio, bundling three of its storage software products into a single package to simplify licensing for the enterprise."We have a new approach to data protection that is driving down the costs," said Michael Grant, head of software product marketing at Dell.The release is a precursor to Dell delving more deeply into the market of storage software, not just as a vendor but as a developer of new technologies. "We're making a pretty big investment in data protection," Grant said.The new Backup and Disaster Recovery Suite contains popular Dell backup programs, AppAssure, NetVault Backup and vRanger. Dell acquired each of these programs through company acquisitions in 2012.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Microsoft patches 2 critical, 7 important flaws on August 2014 'Update Tuesday'
Microsoft released nine security patches today, but "Patch Tuesday" is apparently too quaint of a phrase and will be no more, according to Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc. It's still on the second Tuesday of each month, but it's been renamed "Update Tuesday" so Microsoft can deliver security patches along with new OS features."Rather than waiting for months and bundling together a bunch of improvements into a larger update as we did for the Windows 8.1 Update, customers can expect that we'll use our already existing monthly update process to deliver more frequent improvements along with the security updates normally provided as part of 'Update Tuesday'." Oh and you can also forget about Windows 8.1 Update 2 as LeBlanc said it's not being released.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
iPad toting tortoises draws ire from animal activists
Don't worry, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. What you're looking at above is a tortoise walking around with an iPad on its shell. Actually, two iPads to be exact. As part of an upcoming exhibit at the Aspen Art Museum, three African tortoises were transported to Colorado where they currently live in a habitat "that promotes and safeguards sustained health and comfort." Note that the tortoises themselves were originally rescued from a breeder who kept them in a confined space and generally unsafe living conditions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
3 Cool Google cloud features
In the increasingly competitive cloud IaaS market Google is attempting to distinguish its platform by arming its cloud with unique features and cutting-edge technology that customers can't quite find anywhere else in the market. With competition amoung Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google being as intense as ever, Google is attempting to distinguish its cloud offering by appealing directly to developers. "We're not focusing on the way cloud has been done, but instead we're focusing on how Google thinks it will evolve over the next five to 10 years," said Dan Blecher, a product manager on the Google Cloud Platform at one of the company's 17-stop Google Cloud Platform Roadshow events being held around the country - last week's was in Boston.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Coding platform for IoT could bring data-crunching apps online faster
The "Internet of things" won't be built overnight, but vendors are now stepping in to give enterprises a helping hand.The latest offer comes from RacoWireless, which on Tuesday announced a platform designed to ease development of applications that use data from a wide range of IoT devices. The Omega DevCloud, which will be part of the company's Omega Management Suite, is set for general availability in September.With it, developers writing applications will no longer have to code them for specific devices or add firmware to those devices in the field, RacoWireless President John Horn said. Instead, using a personalized API (application programming interface) based on commonly used specifications, they can have the device's data sent to the Omega DevCloud and then transferred into an application. That application can be written in the language the developer already uses.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Former exec says HP 'bungled' the Autonomy acquisition, alleges cover-up
Autonomy's former chief financial officer has claimed that Hewlett-Packard is accusing him and other ex-employees of fraud in order to cover up its own failings in the disastrous 2011 acquisition.After buying Autonomy, HP took a US$8.8 billion writedown on the $11.1 billion deal, citing widespread accounting improprieties at the company before the sale.It parted ways with Autonomy founder Mike Lynch as well as ex-CFO Sushovan Hussain. The latter filed a motion in June opposing a settlement HP reached with shareholders over the matter, arguing that if it isn't stopped, the truth about what happened with Autonomy will be lost.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Fifteen new vulnerabilities reported during router hacking contest
Five popular router models were hacked during the SOHOpelessly Broken competition at DefCon 22 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. Do you think he or she was oblivious to the irony?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Reviews: Logitech's social video camera and Dell's universal docking station
Reviews of Logitech's Bemo social camera and Dell MKS14 Universal Docking Station Read More
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
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