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February 22, 2012

Analytics Seen as Key to P&G Agility

At a time when it's doing massive cost-cutting and layoffs in other parts of the business, Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo Passerini plans to quadruple the number of people on staff with expertise... More >

February 21, 2012

Clouds Are Gathering: Be Prepared

Though everyone has been trying to figure out what the essential skills are for cloud computing, as I wrote last year, one of the surest ways to gain those skills is to volunteer for any projects ... More >

February 20, 2012

Hortonworks Announces Hadoop U.

I wrote last month about the struggle to find Hadoop talent and how that could stymie adoption of the Big Data solution.   Forrester analyst James Kobielus believes the answer to the talent sh... More >

The Business Value of Large-Scale Server Consolidation

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February 17, 2012

As Science Heats Up, U.S. Share of Talent Shrinks

An interesting New York Times article looks at IBM's search not only for patterns in Big Data, but also for overlap in various fields and possible reuse of algorithms.   It quotes Steve Mill... More >

February 16, 2012

NBA Sensation Lin's Lesson to Managers

New York Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin's popularity seems similar to that of a shooting star. It's a compelling story: Harvard grad and Asian guy defying stereotypes to make it in the NBA. Then being c... More >

February 9, 2012

Michigan Hopes to Reverse Florida Migration

When I interviewed Deborah Vazquez, CEO of Boca Raton, Fla., IT staffing firm Protech , last August, she made the case that tech pros don't have to wait until they retire if they dream of moving t... More >

February 8, 2012

Chief Customer Officer, Big Data Mingle at Insurance Office

A new role is cropping up as insurance companies become more focused on customer experience and try to glean insights from their data on how to improve it.   Forrester analyst Paul Hagen calls ... More >

February 7, 2012

Foote Finds Troubling Aspects to Jobs Report

Foote Partners CEO David Foote isn't buying that the January jobs numbers were "unambiguously good," as one analyst put it. The Labor Department on Friday announced that 243,000 jobs were added to ... More >

February 3, 2012

Survey Links Building Business Relationships, Bigger Bucks

My colleague Ann All last fall quoted executive recruiter Tim Cook from a silicon.com piece saying that IT has become "less about running infrastructure and data systems well, and more about IT pro... More >

February 2, 2012

IPO Filing Provides Peek at Facebook Culture

I've written a lot about how companies try to build a culture where engineers want to work. We've had glimpses before of the Facebook culture, though the social network's IPO filing lays that out i... More >

February 1, 2012

Facebook Millionaires and Exit Emails

With Facebook expected to file for its IPO today after the markets close, there's talk that it will create “1,000 overnight millionaires,” as Google's 2004 IPO did. That's on paper, and not until t... More >

January 31, 2012

Tech Booms Amid Dismal Florida Unemployment Numbers

As a backdrop for the Florida primary, CNNMoney.com has a big piece declaring Florida the worst state in which to lose your job. It says the Sunshine State has the highest rate of long-term unempl... More >

January 30, 2012

Report: Cloud to Create 'Significant' Job Opportunities

As noted a couple of weeks ago, more than 10,000 job ads have been posted online in the past three months that include requirements for cloud computing skills, an increase of 61 percent over the ... More >

January 27, 2012

HCL Reiterates U.S. Hiring Plans

Just days after President Obama's State of the Union rant about outsourcing , India's HCL Technologies has announced plans to create 10,000 jobs in the United States and Europe over the next five ... More >

January 26, 2012

Where Will You Find Hadoop Talent?

My colleague Loraine Lawson, who has written extensively about Hadoop , including interviewing founder Doug Cutting, recently posed the question to me: Where will companies find Hadoop talent? &nb... More >

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