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Interop 2013: Big data is a big but young market
A recent survey by Forrester found that 7% of IT executives and 9% of business leaders feel they have gained a true return on investment from big data. That means there's a lot more business can be doing to glean insights from the massive amount of data that's potentially available to them.
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HP updates IT automation suite for cloud deployments
Further pursuing its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments, Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its IT management tools with more capabilities to work with public and private clouds.
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25 must-have technologies for SMBs
Running a small business isn't easy. I know. I run one. As a freelance writer, I?ve learned that you need to run your writing career as if you were running a business.
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Nine in 10 tech start-ups plan to recruit this year: report
The jobs market may be grim, but new research has highlighted that technology start-up businesses have ambitious hiring plans for the next year.
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Infosec 2013: cyber security sector failing to attract new talent
The cyber security sector in the UK is failing to attract young people into the industry ? especially women ? according to research released this week by e-skills UK.
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Microsoft Azure steps up to AWS with first full IaaS offering
Microsoft has rolled out a major update to its Azure cloud computing service, promising to match Amazon Web Services? prices for commodity services such as compute, storage and bandwidth.
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New services bolster Microsoft Azure as key enterprise cloud management system
Microsoft is pushing Azure cloud service to the 5,000 attendees at its management conference this week, encouraging them to take advantage of the system now for specific tasks but to keep in mind that it fits into a full-blown hybrid-cloud framework that may become more attractive to them over time.
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Report: IT jobs still in high demand, but skills in short supply
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation?s (REC) latest jobs report indicates that although IT & Computing permanent jobs are still experiencing strong demand when compared to other sectors, there is troubling skills shortage in the market.
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Nonstop cloud computing price war: Amazon, Google both drop rates again
Just as industry watchers have predicted, the race to the bottom for cloud computing prices continues.
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PostgreSQL releases updates to address high-risk vulnerability
The PostgreSQL developers released updates for all major branches of the popular open-source database system on Thursday in order to address several vulnerabilities, including a high-risk one that could allow attackers to crash the server, modify configuration variables as superuser or execute arbitrary code if certain conditions are met.
