EMC launches cloud computing degrees
EMC has partnered with Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) to launch the first cloud computing degree in Ireland.
The company’s Irish business, EMC Information Systems International, has been working with CIT to develop one-year Masters and undergraduate degree programmes which can be delivered remotely, or on campus.
The courses are designed to teach graduates the specialist technical skills required for delivering cloud computing, which the Irish government has identified as a key driver for growth and jobs in the country.
NY CIO: In the future, states will share systems
A New York state commission is expected to release recommendations next June on how to streamline the state’s hodgepodge of programs and processes, which, like many states’, are behind the technology curve, duplicative and draining taxpayer dollars.
The report, by the Spending and Government Efficiency (SAGE) commission appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January, will look across state services and agencies and propose steps to manage the state’s IT investment, estimated to be as high as $2 billion.
Cloud market: future mass market, oligopoly or monopoly?
Do cloud developers need to go back to school?
I spent this weekend writing up some opinions from a bunch of academics and recruitment specialists on the subject of whether cloud computing focused developers have enough skills to cut the new (cloudy) mustard.
It seems that opinions are mostly in line with a consensus which agrees that we have a skills issue to address. New languages and new software methodologies are at work inside the cloud paradigm and not every programmer has the skills base to cope.
The jump to cloud (and the news skills it will require) has even been likened to the new skills shift that programmers have had to embrace to cope with the new world of mobile apps.
The Costs of Bad Security
Keeping up: The Enterprise Strategy Group, a consulting firm, asked 308 IT professionals in large companies what factors motivated their decisions to improve data security. Regulatory compliance topped the list
Credit: Credit: ESG Research Report, Protecting Confidential Data Revisited, April 2009
G-Cloud Open Data Platform
A key challenge in IT is dealing with all the different ‘camps’ of different makes and types of technologies.
In Government this is particularly challenging right now, because simultaneously Government agencies are meant to embrace, adopt and master a variety of new technologies, including Web 2.0 social media, Cloud Computing, Open standards, Open software and Open Data.
How to Cope With Cloud Crashes
The folks at LearnBoost, a free classroom management suite of online tools, have blogged last month about how they use MongoDB among other things to help them replicate in the cloud to prevent exactly the same sorts of outages that hit Quora and others when Amazon’s Web Services went offline.
Guillermo Rauch writes that LearnBoost didn’t suffer any downtime, largely because they took some care to build in redundancy to their apps and cleverly
replicated their data across different Amazon regions and data centers…
Small business risks getting lost in the cloud
A survey released this week paints an interesting picture of small businesses working in the cloud, and that picture is one of uncertainty.
"The cloud", essentially outsourcing computing tasks of any number of varieties, has been the hot button topic of the technology industry over the last couple of years, and it’s often suggested that the cloud is a natural fit for SMB organisations, which have greater agility and less existing legacy architecture than their enterprise peers.
Global Cloud Computing Adoption: Transformation is in the Air
HP, Sir Paul ‘All Together Now’ on Cloud Archive
Eight months after it began an ambitious project to digitize a lifetime worth of music, artwork, photos and various other property of one of the world’s most renowned musicians, Hewlett-Packard revealed May 26 that Sir Paul McCartney’s new cloud storage/access system has launched and is open for business.
McCartney’s publishing company, MPL Communications, is handling the day-to-day business of using the cloud-stored content for publishing, licensing, sales–and even giveaways, if McCartney so chooses.