Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Steve Ranger.

The UK will need another 300,000 IT workers by 2020, but already companies are finding it hard to recruit staff for security, mobile, green tech and cloud computing projects. According to the research by tech employers body e-skills UK nearly one fifth of all vacancies are difficult to fill due to skills shortages.

The report said the "digital sector" – which includes software, services and telecoms – contributes nearly £69bn to the economy. It said the UK has around 1.1 million IT workers with just under half working in technology companies, while the rest are most likely to be employed in finance and professional services, manufacturing or the public sector…

Grazed from NextGov. Author: Joseph Sparks.

Against the backdrop of a $150 million lawsuit over a contract to build a secure computer cloud for the U.S. intelligence community, an IBM executive swiped at competitor Amazon last week, calling the company’s cloud services unreliable and not up to government standards. “Amazon’s definition of reliability doesn’t measure up to what the federal government needs for mission critical workloads,” Andrew Maner, managing partner of IBM’s federal cloud business told Nextgov.

Amazon is suing the government in an effort to claw back a contract it initially won to provide cloud computing services to the CIA and other intelligence agencies. The CIA later canceled and re-bid that contract after IBM complained to the Government Accountability Office…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Charlie Osbourne.

Hewlett Packard has launched a new cloud-based analytics service based on HP’s HAVEn Big Data analytics platform. Announced on Monday, the new service will help clients solve business problems and create new revenue opportunities, according to the firm. By leveraging HP HAVEn, clients can more effectively analyze and derive value from their information, such as increasing sales with targeted client offerings, improving supply chain performance, detecting fraud or discovering security risks more efficiently through the new service.

Dragan Rakovich, chief technologist, Information Management & Analytics of HP Enterprise Services said: "Harnessing the value of information is a top priority for our clients and a Big Data solution is a significant investment of time and money for any organization, regardless of industry. HP Enterprise Services has leveraged HP HAVEn’s unified approach to Big Data to provide a low-risk, simplified and accelerated entry path to addressing key client business problems."…

Grazed from EconomicTimes. Author: Editorial Staff.

Over the next few years, what happens to the several trillion dollars businesses spend on technology will be decided by executives like Jeff Allen. As big business hitches its computer systems to the latest technology wave, Allen and others will have the tricky job of ensuring that old systems work with the many new systems finding their way into his company.

"A lot of normal companies are struggling to stitch together lots of different software" from different technology providers, said Allen, a marketing vice president at Standard Register, a specialty publishing and communications company in Dayton, Ohio. Eventually, he said, he will have to choose from only three or four big suppliers. Eventually. But not right now…

Grazed from CBROnline. Author: Claire Vanner.

Global information technology solutions company Mindtree, has announced a partnership with SAP America to enable customers to execute their cloud strategies on SAP’s cloud applications like SuccessFactors and mobile platforms. Mindtree has been an SAP Partner since 2005 and a SuccessFactors product development partner for the past six years. It continues to play a critical role in helping customers identify and implement ideal SAP solutions to address their unique business needs.

The new alliance will help Mindtree’s customers take advantage of its expertise in application development and deployment on cloud and mobile platforms. The partnership will complement SAP’s product landscape to provide best- in-class human capital management, mobile and analytics solutions on premise and on cloud…

Grazed from Dynamics. Author: Editorial Staff.

I had lunch with a friend today who manages internal IT systems for a large film and television media company. He said that he was swamped at work because of an unexpected business crisis: one of his company’s cloud storage service providers is going out of business and he has less than 30 days to try and transfer all of the critical data stored with the provider. He was not involved in the selection or setup with this provider, but is now having to figure out how to save all of the data.

The fun part: His company has over 160 TERABYTES of data stored online with this provider. (It is believed that other customers have many PETABYTES of data stored with this provider, so relatively, 160 TB isn’t nearly as bad.)…

Grazed from Codenvy.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Codenvy, the “Code Better Instantly” company, and Piston, the enterprise OpenStack™ company, today announced a partnership to deliver cloud integrated development environments (IDEs) to enterprise organizations.

Codenvy Enterprise enables the F5000 to code, build, test and deploy applications on their own servers, giving organizations unprecedented efficiency, control and extensibility. When Piston’s OpenStack solution is combined with Codenvy Enterprise, enterprises are given a scalable, zero-downtime and low-cost solution for all on-premises development needs…

Grazed from TheServerSide.  Author: Cameron McKenzie.

TheServerSide.com recently had the opportunity to speak with John Duimovich, a Distinguished Engineer with IBM, who also happens to be IBM’s Java CTO and a keynote speaker at OracleWorld 2013. Seeing that it has now been over three years since Oracle beat out IBM in a bid to acquire Sun Microsystems and Sun’s Java platform, the first thing we wanted to know from Duimovich was his insights on how the enterprise computing landscape would have changed if IBM had won the battle to become stewards of the Java platform instead of Oracle.

And like any good IBM exec, Duimovich dodged the questions with grace and determination. "That’s a fairly loaded question. If you catch me in a bar without a media person present, then maybe I’d talk about it. Speculation is fun, but I’d rather talk about the topics we will be covering at JavaOne."…

Grazed from NYTimes.  Author: Quentin Hardy.