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The Tech Industry’s Regulatory Crisis and How Silicon Valley Lost Touch with Washington (TechCrunch)

Digital currencies, drones, autonomous vehicles, peer-to-peer lending, renewables — the list goes on and on with stories of tech companies that have largely ignored regulatory gu... More

How Big Data is Changing Recruitment Forever (DataInformed)

In business, people are usually both the most important asset and biggest liability. Talented people are often what makes a business stand out from the competition while an under-m... More

IT Spending on ‘Innovation’ is Now a Priority (CIO)

Businesses are increasing their spending on technology, with cloud services as the big beneficiary. Hardware and software spending is declining as spending on cloud services rises,... More

The Gig Economy Has Grown Big, Fast — and That’s a Problem for Workers (Recode)

While the gig economy promises to free workers from the traditional, drab 9-to-5 work environment, the reality is quite different. Many contractors employed in gig-economy–type j... More

Rise of the IoT Machines (CIO)

Friday’s distributed denial-of-service attack on domain name service provider Dyn may have seemed like the end of the world for millions of Netflix, Twitter and Spotify users, bu... More

Six Ways to Fix the IT Skills Shortage (ZDNet)

Tech is still missing out on some of the brightest and best: here are a few ideas on what needs to change. The IT skills gap is causing business leaders more problems than ever bef... More

Women in Computing to Decline to 22% by 2025, Study Warns (USA Today)

New research warns that at the rate we're going, the number of women in the computing workforce will decline to 22% from 24% by 2025 if nothing is done to encourage more of them to... More

Where to Find the World’s Best Programmers (CIO)

Donald Knuth, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Grace Hopper: The United States has produced some of the greatest software engineers who have ever lived. But outside the United States ... More

Wipro Acquires Cloud Company Appirio (HITS)

IT consulting and business services company Wipro acquired Indianapolis-based cloud services company Appirio Oct. 20, paying $500 million for a company that already counts Coca-Col... More

Fast Tracking the Future: Cloud on Tap (ITWeb)

IT practitioners, purveyors and leaders are caught between a virtual rock and a hard place. With unprecedented levels of technology disruption being the order of the day, and escal... More

Doug Lane Reveals Capgemini Government Solutions’ Secrets for Growth (WashingtonExec)

Doug Lane: "In 2016 alone, we’ve more than doubled in size with a backlog that points to similar growth expected through 2017. Since I joined in 2014, we have harnessed the capa... More

Oracle’s Cloud Comes Online (Data Center Knowledge)

The first availability region of Oracle’s new cloud platform, designed by some of the same people who built Amazon’s, Microsoft’s, and Google’s cloud infrastructure, has be... More

Gartner: IT Spending will Hit $3.5 Trillion in 2017 (Information Week)

Global IT spending is slated to rise slightly in 2017, with enterprises looking to invest about $3.5 trillion on technology in the next year -- an increase of 2.9% compared to the ... More

Dell EMC Updates, Launches New Systems, Software as it Integrates Legacy Products (ZDNet)

Dell EMC on Wednesday rolled out a bevy of products that are designed to link the two companies and provide the glue to a huge portfolio of enterprise technologies. On September 7,... More

6 Dangers Of ‘Frankensteining’ Your Cloud Environment (Forbes)

Margaret Harrist, Oracle: Many companies move incrementally to the cloud, with different groups chasing their own dream of simplicity and lower costs using department budgets and ... More

Western Digital Addresses Increasing Application Workload Demands for VMware Environments with New Certifications of Two SSDs (HITS)

Western Digital announced that two of its most compelling data center devices are now certified for use with VMware® environments1, including the high-capacity yet cost-effective ... More

Are You Ready for Remote Project Management? (CIO)

Managing projects is a demanding job, and it's more seem challenging when you add in the fact that you're doing it remotely. But it doesn't have to be. After identifying all the po... More

Who Owns Digital Transformation? According to a New Survey, It’s Not the CIO (Forbes)

Digital transformation is one of those terms that seems to mean, well, everything. That’s because different groups within organizations are investing in innovative technologies t... More

Where Top Talent in the Tech Industry Will Likely Work Next (Fast Company)

Wherever the best engineers, programmers, and designers in the tech industry go, investment dollars, successful products, and revenues may often follow. The flow of talent in the t... More

Three Ways to Update Your IT Infrastructure In 90 Days (Forbes)

Brian Mistretta, CenturyLink: Digital transformations impact every area of the business, sparked by IT strategies built on speed, agility, and scalability. Embracing this revolutio... More

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