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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

IT workers' voices heard in the Senate, confidentially

Top 11 oddball real-world tech job interview questions | Review: Aerospike kicks scale-out NoSQL into high gear

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IT workers' voices heard in the Senate, confidentially
A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the H-1B visa offered up a stew of policy arguments, positioning and frustration. Much of the frustration focused on the IT layoffs at Southern California Edison, which is cutting 500 IT workers after hiring two offshore outsourcing firms. Read More


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How Other Organizations Achieve IT Agility
Leading organizations actively seek ways to address the challenges of achieving IT agility and closing the Relevance Gap. Let's take a look at how two businesses accomplished the task. Learn more >>

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Endpoint Defense Essentials
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Top 11 oddball real-world tech job interview questions
As if it isn't already tough enough to land a job in tech, how would you like to be hit up with one of these strange interview questions? Read More

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Review: Aerospike kicks scale-out NoSQL into high gear
In this new world of scale-out, clustered NoSQL databases that process thousands -- even millions -- of transactions per second, good cache management is critical for good performance. (Insider Story) Read More

Corporate culture hinders cyber insurance buy-in
The relatively new field of cyber insurance offers a potentially valuable shield from the financial toll that a data breach can visit on a company, but that market is held back by a lack of information about the threat landscape and a culture in many firms that too often marginalizes cyber issues, a senior government official warns. Read More


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Digitizing The Enterprise Creates Content Challenges
IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine these growing content transformation usage requirements within enterprise organizations. Learn More

Does Juniper have too many SDNs?
After last week's Innovation Day announcements, Juniper Networks has a range of SDN, data center fabric and data center switching products to choose from. Does it have too many? Read More

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Akamai CSO takes a creative approach to finding security pros
What do a chocolatier, theater director and dog-sledding adventurer have in common? All found work with Andy Ellis, the chief security officer at Akamai. And all have passion – an indispensable quality for Akamai's CSO. (Insider Story) Read More

Ellison swings at Salesforce as Oracle's growth sputters
Oracle expects to generate more than $1 billion in new SaaS and PaaS business in 2015, putting it toe-to-toe in the cloud market with Salesforce.com, Oracle's top executives said Tuesday. Read More


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Top tips for securing big data environments
Organizations don't have to feel overwhelmed when it comes to securing big data environments. The same security fundamentals for securing databases, data warehouses and file share systems can be applied to securing Hadoop implementations. Learn More

Red Hat formulates a plan for building enterprise mobile apps
Red Hat understands that developing a mobile application is not the same as building one for the desktop, which is why the company has augmented its software stack with new technologies for mobile development. Read More

Facebook brings payments to Messenger app
Users of Facebook's Messenger app will soon be able to do more than just chat with friends and send them emoticons. They'll also be able to send money. Read More

INSIDER
The rise of the chief data officer
Wes Hunt is unambiguous about his objective as the first chief data officer at Nationwide Mutual Insurance: "Our goal," he says, "is to treat data as the asset it is and drive value from that." (Insider Story) Read More


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