Articles by Dice Staff

• AOL’s Nibiru: Data Center in a Box

  AOL may have seen better days, glory-wise. It might be struggling for a way forward, strategy-wise, in a world where Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others reign as the dominant Web properties. Bu…
• Windows Server 2012 Emphasizes Microsoft Cloud Drift

  Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012 offerings could benefit any organization just starting to dip a proverbial toe into the virtualization and cloud game. At the same time, however, it could alienate…
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  Top Three Tips to Improve Onboarding

  We've all been there. You start a new job, settle into your desk, meet a few people and then it's time for corporate training. Hours – or maybe days – of company history, policies and paperwork.…
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  GM to Slash Outsourcing, Bring 90 Percent IT Jobs In-House

  Newly installed General Motors CIO Randy Mott announced a massive three-year plan to move almost all of GM’s IT services in-house, bringing everything from data centers to software development in…
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  Mozilla Prepares to Release Firefox Mobile OS

  Mozilla is getting ready to compete with Apple and Android for real. And I'm not talking about browser competition, but about mobile OS competition. Last week, Mozilla announced TCL Communication…
• Opposing Camps Ground Cloud API Standard

  Will we ever see a common Cloud API standard? Or is this a fanciful notion? Currently, there seems to be several camps in the Cloud Computing world. One camp believes in a full open environment,…
• The Power of Private PaaS in the Enterprise

  When it comes to cloud computing, conventional wisdom holds that internal IT departments aren’t nearly as mature as providers of cloud computing services in terms of how they manage IT. After all…
• R, Octave, and Python: A Follow-Up

  In my recent article posted on May 16, I compared functionalities for R, Octave and Python at a very high level. The article received many insightful comments. I wanted to share what the commente…
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  Recruiting Dash: Improve Your Process with Better Metrics

  The recruiting industry is missing out on recruiting data that could be used to improve its its processes, says Jason Warner (@Jason_s_warner), founder of Recruiting Dash, a SaaS-based metrics, a…
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  Developer Offers Inside View on Working at Walmart.com

  Ever wonder what an IT job at Walmart.com would be like? Shaz Rajput, a senior software developer for the big-box retailer's Website offered up his experience at the Tech Career Expo in San Franc…