By Stephen Lawson Less than one-fifth of enterprise IT assets are in the cloud, but it looks like more are on the way. One-third of data-center professionals and IT practitioners plan to deploy workloads in the cloud in the next year, according to a survey by the Uptime Institute, an advisory group focused on improving…
Day: May 1, 2017
IDG Contributor Network: 7-Eleven thinks it can go cashier-less. It’s wrong.
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By Evan Schuman There’s a massive difference between retailers using technology to free up associates to do more hands-on work and using that technology to replace those associates. Freeing up will work but replacement won’t. 7-Eleven’s plans to rid itself of the need for store associates, by leveraging RFID-tagged merchandise and relying on payment cards…
Career Watch: Be wary of IT employment contracts
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By Jamie Eckle Q&A: Attorney Jeffrey Scolaro Jeffrey Scolaro, an attorney at Daley Mohan Groble PC in Chicago and a member of Legal Services Link, answers questions about employment contracts. Are employment contracts for IT workers negotiable, or are they one-size-fits-all? The axiom that “everything is negotiable” should be where all IT professionals begin their…