Articles by Dice Staff
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China's Tianhe-2 Highlights Growing Supercomputer Battle
[caption id="attachment_10469" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Tianhe-2.[/caption] A challenger from China took the top spot in the global supercomputer speed competition this week, boasting nea… -
People Moves: Information Transport Solutions, RingCentral, Zumbox
A quick look at some of the movement among IT people this week: As part of its initiative to transition from an owner-operated business model to an executive leadership model, data solutions comp… -
Developing Cloud-Based SaaS Web Applications
The demand for Web development skills needed to design, build and deploy Software as a Service applications should continue to increase over the next several years as more companies seek solution… -
NextGen Seeks Both Techs and Recruiters
NextGen Information Services is a rapidly growing staffing and recruitment firm, 80 percent of whose business is in IT. Founded in 1997, NextGen is headquartered in St. Louis and maintains satell… -
Feds Closing Data Centers Find 3,000 Additional Ones
Following a string of startling revelations, Congress has stepped in to change the way certain federal agencies use their datacenters, and investigate what appear to be gross misrepresentations i… -
Symantec Layoffs Could Hit 8 Percent of Workforce
Symantec has begun laying off up to 1,700 employees -- 8 percent of its workforce -- as it struggles to turn around its lagging business. The downsizing is part of a reorganization the company an… -
Tech Unemployment Numbers Hint at Demand for Women
For the past three consecutive months, the unemployment rate for women in IT has been lower than that of men, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The latest figures, from May, show the w… -
Red Hat Packages Open-Source Cloud for Enterprise
At its annual user conference this week, Red Hat rolled out a variety of updates, including ones meant to streamline the building of private-cloud infrastructures via open-source software, as wel… -
Software-Defined Data Centers: Seeing Through the Hype
In case you didn't catch it this morning, AllThingsD ran a piece endorsing the idea of the software-defined data center (SDDC). That’s a venue where hordes of non-technical mid- and upper-level m… -
Delving into IBM's Layoff Numbers
When you don’t know which departments will be hit with a layoff, look at the revenue-light or money-losing divisions. Such is the case with IBM, which disclosed in April that it expected to take…