Articles by Dice Staff

• Oracle Launches Cloud Software Service

  Oracle launched its cloud software service after seven years of development Wednesday. The company plans to create more than 100 cloud-based applications to run on its database software, as well…
• CFOs Expect Growth in Tech Spending, Hiring

  CFOs plan to keep a tight grip on the purse strings over the next year, but they'll keep spending on technology. In the latest Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook survey, the 400…
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  Cloudera Aims for Enterprise Hadoop Developers

  Cloudera unveiled the fourth incarnation of its Hadoop distribution and management platform, Cloudera Enterprise 4, with a June 6 launch event that brought together several of the company’s execu…
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  How to Move from Contractor to Consultant

  Programmers, systems architects, project managers or other IT specialists working as a contractor may actually have the capabilities of a consultant lurking in you. All it calls for is drawing ou…
• Samsung Electronics Names New CEO

  Samsung Electronics named a new CEO, potentially adding a new dynamic to its frenemy relationship with Apple. The Korean electronics giant appointed Kwon-Oh-hyun, head of Samsung's components ope…
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  How Logitech's Wireless Keyboard Will Win You Over

  Logitech's Wireless Solar Keyboard K760 for the Mac, iPad and iPhone is the most interesting keyboard this author has seen for a long, long time. Let me count the things that make this keyboard p…
• Hadoop Emerges as Application Development Platform

  [caption id="attachment_1484" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Companies want to leverage Hadoop for applications, but working with MapReduce offers headaches for some IT pros."] [/captio…
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  How Young Developers Can Get Respect

  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOUMZRjEpiA&w=560&h=349] If you’re a young developer -- in your teens or early 20s-- you may feel like other professionals aren’t taking you seriously. Tha…
• Comparing Agile and Waterfall

  Ah, the ever so fun debate between agile methodologies and waterfall for IT development. Take a deep breath. Not only is this a big debate, but it's often very heated. Waterfall was the way to go…
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  Social Media Monitoring by Employers Will Increase

  Big Brother employers are about to get even bigger. Gartner says that by 2015, 60 percent of all companies will monitor employee social media use. That's substantially up from the less than 10 pe…