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The Paranoid CIO
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| Written by laton mccartney |
| A little known American poet, Delmore Schwartz once noted famously that “Even paranoids have real enemies.”
Certainly, CIOs are subject to paranoia, especially these days when job security is a rarity. In fact, any IT chief who doesn’t look over his shoulder from time to tim... (1761 more chars) |
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Who's a business and what isn't
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| Written by Robert Lewis |
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ManagementSpeak: Humor me.
Translation: I hear... (5429 more chars) |
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Finding the Right Job Candidate
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| Written by Tom Hoffman |
| There’s an interesting article on ITWeb about different techniques that HR professionals can use to identify the right candidates for an open position and to retain them. The article notes the potential for utilizing a third-party predictive index service to help match an individual’... (2537 more chars) |
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Akamai Leading Race to the Bottom
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| Written by R. Matthew Gee, CFA |
| Last week, Dan Rayburn posted that Akamai is now offering premium pricing to large customers who utilize Akamai for greater than 50% of their distributed content ( Streaming Media blog ).
The example Mr. Rayburn provided was Netflix, a notorious user of all three key CDN vendors (Limelight ... (1072 more chars) |
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The Custom Infrastructure Wasteland
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| Written by Doug Brockway |
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An interesting article was recently posted at CIO Zone . The article was titled “ Cray
Teams with Microsoft on Cloud Computing .” Apparently Microsoft and Cray plan to work together on cloud computing
systems. Cray is a supercomputer
company. Micr... (7713 more chars) |
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The Internet Has Changed
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| Written by Mel Duvall |
| Cisco unveiled a new router this week. So what? It’s true that most of the time the unveiling of a new router doesn’t elicit much more than a yawn from the technology community. But this time is different.
The new routing system promises to change the way we, and in fact, the en... (2161 more chars) |
