Articles by Dice Staff

• How Cloudbursting “Rightsizes” the Data Center

  By now, everybody is pretty familiar with the notion that cloud computing has altered the economics of enterprise IT. No longer can you automatically assume that any given workload will run in a…
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  Reinvent Your Talent Acquisition Strategy [Video]

  When you sell a job to a potential candidate, “you’re selling a promise...rather than a product,” says Brad Cook (@brcook2006), VP Global Talent Acquisition for Informatica. In his presentation,…
• Detroit Tech and Colleges Attack IT-Worker Shortage

  Detroit companies need IT workers, and if they can’t find them then they’re going to create them. A consortium of local companies and colleges have created a two-month program designed to give st…
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  Facebook's Departing CTO A Pied Piper of Talent

  As Facebook's departing CTO Bret Taylor prepares to exit the social networking juggernaut this summer, it'll be interesting to see if history repeats itself. Taylor, who is leaving Facebook to la…
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  Reddit Drops the Ban Hammer

  Reddit has raised more than a few eyebrows with a decision to ban a large number of fairly influential sites. Reddit asserts that people from a selection of domains had been spamming the social n…
• Tech Services Fuel San Francisco Job Growth

  May's sharp slowdown in overall job creation in the Bay Area raised concerns, but we in the tech world should bear in mind that professional, scientific and technical services were the strongest…
• Surface and iPad, Function and Form

  An hour after Microsoft showed off its new Surface, I got a little snippy on Twitter: "If I see one more person ask if the iPad's in trouble tonight, I am going to freaking scream. One word, peop…
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  Here Are Companies Hiring Hadoop Experts

  Hadoop is quickly being deployed at virtually every company that has scads of data to be crunched. And in this rush to beef up your training to learn Hadoop, it pays to know where you can go once…
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  Microsoft Unveils Surface Tablet, Enters PC Hardware Space

  After years of speculation, Microsoft finally announced its tablet, called Surface, during an event in Los Angeles on Monday. It's quite amazing that it doesn't compare with the other tablets. In…
• Facebook Will Ask You to Confirm Your Account Via Mobile

  Facebook's decided to stand up and bulk up its security. TechCrunch reports that soon the social media giant's desktop users will be required to confirm their accounts with a mobile phone number.…