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3 ways for CIOs to understand their company's bottom line
For many IT execs, the drumbeat of "know the business, know the business" has become just so much white background noise.That's why the insight of Hewlett-Packard CIO Ramon Baez is so refreshing. Speaking earlier this year in an online event examining the changing role of the CIO, Baez couched the issue of understanding the business purely in financial terms: "The language of the business is finance. When the CIO understands how the company makes money and loses money, that's when you understand what to focus on and what not to focus on," he said.John Reed, senior executive director at IT staffing firm Robert Half Technology (RHT), says, "Companies aren't necessarily looking for CIOs who know how to read an accounting ledger. But can they understand what contributes to financial performance?" IT executives need to be able to look at a financial report, identify the top and bottom lines, recognize where the profit comes from, and then put on their CIO hats and identify where technology can do things to reduce cost, increase profitability, and identify new business opportunities. "If you can read those reports, you understand where your highest impact is," says Reed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
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Six technologies that will change PCs next year
In an era of slick gadgets, PCs are the dinosaurs, ensnared in wire clutter, sporting tired 2D cameras and stricken with the occasional blue screen of death. Technology coming up in 2015, though, is set to make PCs more interactive, fun and perhaps nosier than you'd like them to be.Apple's iPad changed the way people viewed computers and spurred PC innovation. Hardware makers drew ideas from mobile devices, gaming consoles and even 3D printers to rethink the PC, and the resulting new technologies will have a profound effect on how laptops and desktops are used next year and into the future.Perhaps the most interesting idea is Intel's "wire-free" PC, in which wireless technology will replace display, charging and data transfer cables. Chip maker Intel next year will show an experimental laptop that has no ports, and relies completely on wireless technology to connect to monitors and external storage devices.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Stanford 'high-rise' chip takes on IoT and big data
Stanford University researchers have built a multi-layered "high-rise" chip that could significantly outperform traditional computer chips, taking on the hefty workloads that will be needed for the Internet of Things and big data.Using nanotechnology, the new chips are built with layers of processing on top of layers of memory, greatly cutting down on the time and energy typically needed to move information from memory to processing and back. Max Shulaker, a Ph.D candidate at Stanford University, is working on a multi-layered chip that could significantly outperform traditional computer chips.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Why it's time to start using a password manager
It's holiday shopping season, and it's time for me to nag you about security. You'll likely be shopping online a lot in the coming weeks, and many of the sites you visit will require passwords. None of us have solid-state memory inside of our heads (yet), so it's easy to be sloppy with passwords. Don't. Seriously. People get hacked all the time, and it's a major pain in the butt.Some simple advice: Use a password manager.Password managers are applications that store all of your passwords in encrypted spaces. If, for example, you store a username and password for your bank, the manager automatically fills in the appropriate fields when you visit your banking site. Password managers can also generate passwords, fill out forms and share passwords across multiple devices.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Spark lights a fire under big data processing
Apache Spark brings high-speed, in-memory analytics to Hadoop clusters, crunching large-scale data sets in minutes instead of hours. Read More
Wanted for hire: Engineers with ideas of their own
It's a playground for engineers inside the new offices of Cambridge Consultants.The UK-based firm recently relocated its U.S. headquarters to Boston, where it plans to expand headcount from 30 people today to more than 100 over the next three years (the company currently has 400 employees worldwide)."We're looking for engineers of all different disciplines -- software engineers, mechanical engineers, electronics engineers, program managers. There's a whole breadth of high quality jobs being created by the move," says David Bradshaw, a director at Cambridge Consultants.The 54-year-old firm's specialty is product development. "Clients tell us about a problem they're facing in the marketplace. That might be a competitive threat that they want to respond to, it might be some IP protection that they need to build, or they might be worrying about an expiring patent. We apply technology to solve that problem for them," Bradshaw says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
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