LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT
THREAT-LEVEL MIDNIGHT: BYOD Leading To Increasingly Risky Behavior Among Employees. Businesses today are approaching their own “Threat Level Midnight,” but this threat doesn’t come from a single, evil super villain. Rather, it comes primarily from the internal employees in an organization and their habits when using their personal mobile devices. Read more
[NETWORKWORLD.COM]
RETENTION STRATEGY: 6 Reasons To Help Your Best People Leave. Why should you actively work to help your best direct reports find better jobs? Isn’t your job as a manager to retain your best people? Yes and no. Here are 6 reasons why you should do everything you can to help your best people leave Read more
[INSIDEHIGHERED.COM]
ZEN APPROACH: Executives Need To Find Calm In A Stormy World. There is a certain irony to the fact that in an age characterized by individuals being constantly stimulated by media, contactable 24 hours a day and often visibly stressed one of the most quoted concepts in management is mindfulness. It is seen as particularly pertinent to leadership. But what is it exactly? Read more
[FORBES.COM]
DATABASES
BUILD DEVELOPER NEWS: Microsoft Announces Elastic SQL Database Pools For Azure. Developers and independent software vendors who often run hundreds — or even thousands — of separate databases for their customers now have a new option to manage them while keeping costs predictable. Read more
[TECHCRUNCH.COM]
TECH WATCH: Open Source Threatens To Eat The Database Market. The database market has largely been impervious to open source pricing pressure. That may be about to change. Read more
[INFOWORLD.COM]
GARTNER RESULTS: Relational Open Source Databases Come Of Age. In its report, The State of Open-Source RDBMSs, 2015, Gartner found that open source relatoinal database management systems (OSRDBMSs) have matured to the point where they can replace commercial databases. CIOs can now consider them as a standard infrastructure choice, the company advised. Read more
[ITWORLDCANADA.COM]
CLOUD COMPUTING
MACHINE LEARNING: Five Reasons It Is Moving To The Cloud. Amazon Web Services turned a lot of heads recently when it launched a machine learning platform aimed at making predictive analytics applications easy to build and run, joining cloud juggernauts Microsoft and Google with similar ML offerings.
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[DATANAMI.COM]
CLOUD FORECAST: How Digital Transformation Drives Cloud Computing Demand. Digital Business Transformation projects gained momentum in 2014, as more companies moved their legacy IT workloads to cloud computing platforms and launched a variety of new cloud-native applications. This pervasive trend will continue and accelerate for the duration of 2015. Read more
[CLOUDCOMPUTING-NEWS.NET]
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