Articles by Dice Staff

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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…
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  Oculus Rift: Virtual Reality Gaming Makes a Comeback

  By Rob Pakus Nowadays it seems the gaming and gadget hype is all about 3-D TVs and next-generation consoles. I’m more interested in the evolutionary reincarnation of virtual reality gaming, speci…
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  Why the Future Belongs to Big Data

  When it comes to buzzwords, Big Data is currently at the top of the technology heap. You may have your own definition, but Michael Minelli, Michele Chambers and Ambiga Dhiraj, the authors of Big…
• Gartner: SSDs Simply Can't Replace Hard Drives

  [caption id="attachment_9557" align="aligncenter" width="500"] These aren't going away anytime soon.[/caption] Hard-drive manufacturers can breathe a sigh of relief—solid-state disks (SSDs) won’t…