Articles by Dice Staff
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Big Fish Ditches Cloud-Streaming, to Lay Off 49
Big Fish Games plans to close its cloud game-streaming initiative and lay off 49 employees in Seattle, as well as close offices in Vancouver, B.C., and Cork, Ireland. Big Fish had 524 full-time e… -
Initiative Means to Bulk Up St. Louis Tech Workforce
In hopes of deepening the talent pool for programmers in St. Louis, a group of entrepreneurs is launching an initiative to pair those just starting out with more experienced developers. Called La… -
Use Pinterest to Boost Your Career
If you think Pinterest is just for showing off your hobbies and recipes, think again. Businesses of all kinds have taken to the online pin board to showcase their knowledge, products and services… -
Virtualization May Kill Traditional Datacenter Ops
[caption id="attachment_11738" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Datacenter headaches.[/caption] The cranky, complex, labor-intensive model of traditional datacenter design and operations may be o… -
awk, Your Programmable Report Generator
As the World of Linux gets ever more sophisticated, I occasionally like to remind myself about the importance of the fundamentals. Back to early principles and concepts that let humans bend those… -
Tech Jobs: Life360, AppRiver Are Hiring
Our weekly snapshot of who’s hiring and who’s firing across the IT landscape. HIRING Life360 is in the process of bumping up its startup workforce to 40 people from 32 at its San Francisco headqu… -
Chicago's SingleHop Could Top 300 Workers in 2 Years
Chicago-based SingleHop, a dedicated hosting and cloud solutions provider, is looking for a sales engineer and systems administrator, in addition to its ongoing hunt for strong development and sa… -
Government CIOs Don’t Stay in Place for Long
Increasingly, CIOs in government are walking through a revolving door. Based on an annual survey of nearly 2,000 CIOs, the research firm Gartner says the average tenure of a public-sector CIO is… -
Rackspace Offers Virtual On-Premise Private Cloud
Private-cloud hosting company Rackspace has announced a new service designed to make it easier for large companies to expand their virtualization infrastructures, by moving live virtual workloads… -
Dell Monitor Kills Virtual Zombies
Dell has announced a new version of its virtualization management software designed to help datacenter managers recover wasted resources by killing off "zombie" virtual machines. Version 7 of Del…