Articles by Dice Staff
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3 Ways to Be Indispensible to Small Business
Want to make your IT consultancy indispensable to a small business? Here are three key ways to make yourself the go-to consultant for the small company in need of your services. In my IT consulti… -
The Cylindrical Mac Pro Will Only Be a Footnote
Apple has lifted the lid on its completely redesigned Mac Pro. In spite of the chorus of “oohs” and “aahs” that greeted the unveiling of the high-powered cylindrical computer at this year’s WWDC,… -
PayPal's Internal PaaS Is a Trend, Not an Anomaly
[caption id="attachment_10568" align="aligncenter" width="618"] PayPal needs some complex backend infrastructure to support its SaaS operations.[/caption] Over the past few months, a number of cl… -
Blocking Lasers Produces DVDs with Petabyte Storage Capacity
A team of Australian researchers may have brought the cost-effective but logistically troublesome DVD into the 21st century with a technique that boosts the capacity of a single DVD from 4.7GB to… -
H-1B Reform Might Bring Unintended Consequences
The immigration reform bill under debate in the Senate would impose higher costs to obtain H-1B visas and raise the required wages of visa-holders – moves that could have an effect opposite of wh… -
Why Hadoop Works for NSA’s Prism
While news of the government’s monitoring of Internet and telephone communications took many by surprise, subsequent reports that officials harnessed Apache Hadoop to help process the data was si… -
Many DCIM Vendors Not Keeping Up with Customers
Corporations and telcos increasingly depend on datacenters to support public or private cloud platforms, leading analysts to wonder whether management software designed to support those datacente… -
Cisco Buys Ability to Virtualize Data Networks
Network-market-dominating Cisco Systems has announced plans to buy Composite Software, a data-virtualization company, for $180 million in cash; the deal is scheduled to close in the first quarter… -
Why Android Developers Ignore Recruiters
Android developers are in sharp demand. How much demand? Some report receiving as many as a dozen job opportunities in a given month. While you’d think recruiters would be at the top of their pit… -
Interview Questions for Hadoop Developers
Hadoop is an open distributed software framework that enables programmers to run an enormous number of nodes handling terabytes of data. One of its most significant abilities is allowing a system…