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Cloud Computing Could Be the Ticket for Project Managers and Analysts With the rapid advancements in technology, perhaps no job title is truly immune from possible layoffs. But could your project management or business analysis skills on your resume help you keep—or even land—the job of your dreams? Eric Bloom thinks that you can find job security in cloud computing. |
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Trend toward Cloud Computing Spells Trouble for Data Centers The trend toward cloud computing and software as a service has been a boon for small businesses. But the money saved comes at a cost, and usually that’s people’s jobs. Consolidating data centers is becoming more common, and more companies are funneling those resources into cloud computing. |
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Google Public Alerts Shows Need for Open Data in Disaster Response Google Public Alerts provides emergency information during natural disasters. But government agencies often store information in closed formats, making it harder to share and analyze data. Google.org is promoting the adoption of international standards of web data to speed up response efforts. |
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Do You Even Need Big Data? Big data is on everyone's minds these days, but are some us worrying about something that may not be of any use to us? Seth Payne weighs the cost of big data analytics against the abilities given to us by cloud computing. |
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Is Minimalism the New Business Model for the Tech Industry? The tech business model used to be to provide comprehensive products with more features than your average consumer would use. But bigger is no longer better—with more individual and small-business clients, many just want basics. Is scaling back and offering service flexibility the new philosophy? |
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Is Private Cloud a Sustainable Solution for the Enterprise? With a lot of press about the coming private cloud revolution, it might seem like a sign that the anticipated widespread enterprise adoption of the private cloud has final arrived. Beth Cohen looks at why companies might not be quite ready to switch from a public to a private cloud. |
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Embracing Chaos Testing Helps Create Near-Perfect Clouds Netflix's "Simian Army" consists of services (Monkeys) in the cloud for generating various kinds of failures or abnormal conditions and then testing the system's ability to survive them. Chaos Monkey works on the premise that if we need to design for high availability, we should design for failure. |
