Author: David

June 2, 2011 Off

VMware acquires SocialCast enterprise social networking vendor

By David
Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Nancy Gohring.

VMware has acquired Socialcast, its third acquisition this year of technology for enterprise collaboration, the company said.

Socialcast software brings together existing enterprise applications including Microsoft SharePoint and Outlook, as well as a microblogging tool and a discussion forum, in a single collaborative application. It’s designed to make it easier for workers to find and share information.

June 2, 2011 Off

EMC launches cloud computing degrees

By David
Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Anh Nguyen.

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.

May 31, 2011 Off

NY CIO: In the future, states will share systems

By David
Grazed from Government Computer News.  Author: Paul McCloskey.

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.

May 31, 2011 Off

Do cloud developers need to go back to school?

By David
Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Adrian Bridgwater.

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.

May 30, 2011 Off

The Costs of Bad Security

By David
Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author: David Talbot.

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