Articles by Dice Staff

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  Facebook Expands Its Office in Seattle

  Facebook's Seattle office has moved to a new space to accommodate its 90 engineers and allow for more hires. The company opened the office in 2010 in order to broaden its resource pool beyond Sil…
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  Data Mining, Analysis Are Key Big Data Skills [Poll]

  Big Data was the subject of last week's snap poll, specifically the skills you think are most important to its use. The results demonstrate what we already know: This is a field just beginning to…
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  Microsoft Forms Open Source Subsidiary

  Microsoft, after a contentious history with the open source world, is coming to embrace it. The Linux Foundation recently ranked the Redmond software maker No. 17 among its Top 20 contributors to…
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  Data Center 'Pods' Allow Engineers to Sleep Onsite

  The 2012 Summer Olympics is sure to impact data center performance in London because of exceptionally high traffic. What's an operations staff to do? Sleep with the servers. That's what the Inter…
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  Big Data Implementation Requires Prepping Now

  Just days after EMC's Jeetu Patel talked to me about how data analysis skills will become part of every business unit, it's interesting to read that Google is beefing up the ranks of data scienti…
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  HP Cloud Service Aims at Developers, Software Vendors

  Hewlett-Packard says it will offer HP Cloud Services beginning May 10. A long time coming, it's the company's first generation of public cloud infrastructure, platform services and cloud solution…
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  Increasing Demand for Epic EMR Specialists [DiceTV]

  Health organizations need more Epic specialists... Tech jobs increase in Utah... and more on the DiceTV Job Minute.
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  Big Data Means More Need for Hadoop Skills

  Big Data is pressuring companies to find more professionals with analytic skills. Madan Sheina, a lead analyst for Ovum’s Information Management Software group, last week posed the question of wh…
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  How AOL's Patent Sale Could Impact Its Jobs

  AOL's $1 billion+ sale of 800 patents to Microsoft will certainly give the company more cash -- and may even stem the layoff of more employees, at least for a while. Can patents be linked to layo…
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  Lost Cell Phones To Be Protected By Lockdown

  Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T are reportedly working with the FCC to create a nationwide registry for lost and stolen phones. Another registry? Good idea or a privacy issue? Let us know what…