CLOUD COMPUTING
CLOUD ADOPTION: Five Reasons for Leaving Your Data Where It Is. As cloud adoption continues its meteoric ascent, the number of access points to enterprise data also increases. And while keeping data on premise is no guarantee of security, it does drastically reduce the number of access points. But the case for keeping data on premise goes far beyond a common sense security and risk mitigation play that tells us the fewer servers our data runs through, the safer it is. Read more
[DATANAMI.COM]
SAAS NEWS: Oracle Commerce Cloud Aimed at Building Fast, Responsive Business Sites. Oracle Commerce Cloud is the latest addition to the cloud application vendor’s Oracle Customer Experience portfolio and is built for the Oracle Public Cloud, according to the announcement. The company expects the solution to help businesses develop their own e-commerce sites on a relatively small budget with simplified IT management. Read more
[TALKINGCLOUD.COM]
NAAS OFFERINGS: Explore The Role Of Network As A Service In Cloud Computing. The growth of cloud computing has introduced a series of advances to virtualization and on-demand resource allocation. Starting with Amazon’s release of S3 object storage, cloud providers have enabled an array of IT services. And, although it gets less attention than compute, storage and higher-level software services, networking is no exception. Read more
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SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENTS: Managing Expectations Is Everything With Cloud Computing. As more enterprises adopt more cloud for important applications, they’re finding they’re dealing with new types of relationships, unlike anything they’ve encountered before. Unlike software purchases in the past, there’s no longer an up-front installation, followed by tech support as needed. Instead, the relationship is more akin to a marriage in which the spouses not only live together, but also work together all day long — 24×7. Read more
[FORBES.COM]
IT WORKFORCE
PODCAST: Cracking The Code To A More Diverse Tech Workforce. The giants of Silicon Valley — Google, Twitter, Facebook — report that just three to four percent of their workforce is black or Hispanic, and men outnumber women by more than two to one. Now, tech companies are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to address the imbalance. In New York, one camp is training such a new generation of software coders. Read more
[PBS.ORG]
IT MANAGEMENT: How Gender Impacts The Tech Job Search. Although professionals in tech have worked hard to erase the stereotype that IT is a man’s field, these beliefs still exist among men and women in tech. A study published in March 2014 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), found that when employers had to hire a professional for a mathematical task, both male and female recruiters were twice as likely to hire a man over a woman. Read more
[CIOINSIGHT.COM]
RESEARCH STUDY: On-Demand Workforce To Include 7.6 Million People By 2020. Neither regulatory battles facing Uber and Airbnb nor mounting pressure on tech startups to convert their independent contractors to employees will slow the rapid-fire growth of the on-demand workforce, according to a new study. Read more
[SILICONBEAT.COM]
TALENT ANALYTICS: Machine Learning 2.0 — What’s Old Is New Again. Forget about big data. The latest analytics buzzword HR leaders should be tracking is actually a blast from the past: machine learning. The term has been around since the early 1960s, but over the past two years human resources tech vendors across the industry have infused it with new life. Read more
[WORKFORCE.COM]
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