Articles by Dice Staff

• DoD Fights For a Datacenter Network It Can Defend

  Plenty of datacenter and network managers complain about the headaches of consolidating datacenter operations into a single group, or ceding some level of control over their regional datacenter t…
• The Software Side of Sears

  [caption id="attachment_11422" align="aligncenter" width="536"] Metascale leverages quite a few Hadoop-related tools, including Map Reduce, Hive, and Pig.[/caption] Thanks to Apache Hadoop and ot…
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  Ancestry.com is Hiring; Here’s How to Get One of Its Jobs

  Claiming 2.1 million subscribers, Provo, Utah-based Ancestry.com bills itself as the world’s largest family history resource. It began as Ancestry Publishing in 1983, producing genealogical books…
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  Q&A: Quicken Loans CIO Linglong He on Women in IT

  Quicken Loans CIO Linglong He has been in the spotlight since the Detroit-based mortgage lender topped Computerworld’s list of 100 Best Places to Work in IT for the fourth time. Linglong began he…
• Navy Version of "Expedia" to Save DoD Millions

  The U.S. Navy expects to save $20 million per year on its global logistics and transportation budget, thanks to technology that has been saving business travelers billions since 1996. The Navy is…
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  Tech Sector Layoffs Decline from 2012

  Tech sector layoffs spiked in the second quarter, with some 16,404 jobs being lost, nearly 5 times the level of the previous period. Still, it’s a dramatic improvement over the second quarter of…
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  Wi-Fi Connectivity a Boon for Mobile Developers

  We've adjusted our routers over WiFi for a long time. Boot up the router, select the access point, punch http://192.168.1.1 into the browser, enter the admin user name and password and you're in.…
• Pennsylvania Fires IBM for Project Overruns

  [caption id="attachment_11368" align="aligncenter" width="500"] What a car wreck.[/caption] Government IT projects aren't famous for their quickness and efficiency, but the state of Pennsylvania…
• Utah Set to Exempt NSA Datacenter From Power Tax, After All

  [caption id="attachment_11357" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The NSA's Utah facility under construction.[/caption] They may not all support what the NSA will do with its giant new datacenter i…
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  Yahoo Labs Plans to Hire 20 Researchers

  Yahoo Labs has hired 30 Ph.D. level researchers this year and plans to add 20 more by the end of December as CEO Marissa Mayer rebuilds the company's research operations, according to Bloomberg.…