Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Offloading IT infrastructure to a cloud-computing provider can result in great cost savings and more streamlined, flexible operations. Need more compute power or storage? Cloud systems like Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) readily scale so there’s no need to go through a time-consuming purchasing process or scrambling to find more room for an…
Carlo Strozzi coined the term NoSQL (“Not only SQL”) in 1998, referring to a lightweight database that did not expose a SQL interface. In 2009, Eric Evans of Rackspace dredged up the term and its meaning was still being debated by its coiner while organizing an event with Johan Oskarsson of Last.fm to discuss the…
From killers to hoaxes, 2009 had its share of the nefarious and inane―in real life and at the intersection where real life meets the digital world … a still mystifying and mysterious GPS coordinate somewhere in the Twilight Zone. To put things into perspective, we’ve come up with our own Top 10 list of some…
Amazon Web Services is more “persistent” than ever today after officially launching its Elastic Block Store (EBS) as part of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment to let users create large volumes that can behave as raw, unformatted hard drives. Pricing for EBS is based on storage provisioned monthly starting at 10 cents per gigabyte…
Psst. Want tips on how to persuade your organization’s CFO to green light an expensive IT project? Okay. Let’s start with a quiz and only those who pass get to read the tips (scout’s honor here): True or false? ▫ IT carries the day. (Dazzle the CFO with promises of IT glories and your funding…
Don’t think your competitors are not eyeballing your best employees. The recession has hit IT, head counts are dwindling so it’s time to wake up and smell the scent of executive search: recruiters are looking to cull the very people you cannot afford to lose. The worse news is that now is the perfect time…