Articles by Dice Staff

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  A Hung Jury on Certifications

  When it comes to enhancing skills, the most often-asked question is about certifications: Are they worth the time and money? Do they really help you get that new job, or do hiring managers just s…
• "Small Cells" May Offload Data to Ease Data Centers

  [caption id="attachment_9640" align="aligncenter" width="250"] Small cell.[/caption] PMC Sierra chief executive Greg Lang suggested May 8 that his company has received Requests for Quotations (RF…
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  Pure Android Collection: An App Promotional Powerhouse

  Introduced in October 2012, the Pure Android Collection on Google Play is an exclusive group of apps deemed worthy by Google's Android Development & Design Teams. This group of apps is so exclusi…
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  4 Steps to Effective Change Control

  Change control is something that is inevitable even with the most successful projects. I'm not sure I've ever worked on a project that didn't have at least one modification made along the way. Wh…
• Cray's XC30-AC: A Steal At Just $500,000

  [caption id="attachment_9624" align="aligncenter" width="618"] A Cray XC30 compute module.[/caption] For businesses wanting the power of a Cray supercomputer at a bargain price, the company is no…
• EMC Gives Storage an SDN Twist

  Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has become a watchword over the past few quarters. But software-defined storage is a slightly different concept—one that EMC hopes to take mainstream. This week,…
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  Austin Tech Companies Worry About Talent Shortage

  The Austin tech sector’s growth between now and 2017 will be complicated by a thin pipeline of STEM talent. Today, technology companies contribute some $21 billion to the local economy, about 25…
• Intel's Atom Redesign Aimed at Datacenters, Devices

  Intel formally announced the next generation of its Atom architecture on May 6. Known as "Silvermont," the microarchitecture will be used as the foundation of everything from tablets to servers t…
• Nginx Passing Microsoft in Web's Server Shootout

  [caption id="attachment_9586" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Web server developers: Market share of all sites.[/caption] While Apache continues to dominate among Web servers, new data from Netc…
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  Networking: More About Quality Than Quantity

  Networking may instill fear in introverted IT professionals, but to score big on your job hunt, it's just one of those things that you've got to do. But for those who tend to be gun-shy in schmoo…