Articles by Dice Staff

• Should Microsoft's Amdocs Deal Worry Data Center Operators?

  Should data-center companies be worried about companies taking licenses from Microsoft to use Linux in a data center? This week, Microsoft announced that Amdocs Software Systems, a provider of un…
• Tech Companies Are Among the Toughest for Job Interviews

  What's the marginal cost of a gigabyte in gmail? If you know the answer, you may have a shot at becoming an associate product manager at Google. If you don't, hey, don't feel too bad. Google rank…
• Twitter Outage: Blame the Data Center

  Twitter blamed a "double whammy" within its data center for an outage that took its entire service down for about 40 minutes on July 26. "Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>," the site's…
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  Cloud Hiring Managers Critique PM/Developer's Resume

  John, a veteran IT project manager and software developer from California, wants to know why is resume isn't getting him in the door for more interviews. In this, the last of our three-part serie…
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  What Recruiters Bring to the Table

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjsqSEu4ZSs&w=560&h=349] “Working with me, you skip the step where your resume is going to get lost in their system,” says Michael Lipschultz, Senior Recru…
• EMC, VMware Move To Take Virtualization, Storage to Cloud

  EMC's leadership shuffle involving subsidiary VMware comes as the two companies face a crossroads. What comes next for virtualization, storage and cloud computing? Pat Gelsinger, formerly preside…
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  Alcatel-Lucent to Cut 5,000 Jobs, R&D Safe

  Alcatel-Lucent is planning to cut 5,500 jobs by the end of next year, with IT professionals tied to its unprofitable services contracts likely at greatest risk. The European telecom-equipment mak…
• Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer Inaugurated

  [caption id="attachment_2918" align="aligncenter" width="618"] A rendering of the SuperMUC system.[/caption] Europe's most powerful supercomputer—and the fourth most powerful in the world—has bee…
• Microsoft Entices Developers to Sell Apps in Windows Store

  Microsoft aims to build a Windows 8 app store that would rival what Apple has achieved for iOS and Google for Android. It’s going all out to lure developers by offering incentives and pricing tha…
• Three Upcoming Android Development Contests

  Android development contests are an excellent opportunity to showcase your design and development talents. The path to big winnings will take considerable effort and an eye for good UI design. If…