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…
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IT Management
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…
Barclays to create 1,750 UK IT jobs over three years
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Barclays bank is creating nearly 2,000 IT jobs at a delivery centre in north west England …read more Source:: Careers
Debenhams appoints ex-Direct Line CIO as tech and supply chain director
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Angela Morrison, the ex-CIO of Direct Line Group, has been appointed technology and supply chain director for department store retailer Debenhams …read more Source:: Careers
Should your next big hire be a chief A.I. officer?
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•By Sharon Gaudin As companies increasingly turn to artificial intelligence to communicate with customers, make sense of big data and find answers to vexing questions, some say it’s time to think about hiring a chief A.I. officer. A chief artificial intelligence Officer – or CAIO — could round out your C-level execs, sitting at the…
Changing tracks: Examining VMware’s evolving hybrid cloud strategy
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) The past 12 months have seen VMware apply a number of tweaks to its hybrid cloud strategy. Daniel Robinson takes a look at what these changes means for the company’s future and technology roadmap …read more Source:: Internet-Tech
9 things your service provider wants you to know
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•By Sandra Gittlen The relationship between enterprise IT and service providers can be difficult. IT has frustrations in achieving optimal service levels. Service providers, as it turns out, have an equal number of bugaboos when it comes to their enterprise clients’ readiness for and acceptance of provider intervention. We asked providers across a range of…
Accenture increasing Newcastle-based workforce
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Accenture is expanding its operation in Newcastle with the addition of 60 recruits …read more Source:: Careers
SLAs being met but most fall short of ‘always on’ backup and restore needs
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Veeam Availability Report finds most IT professionals think there is a gap between how fast they can restore data and their requirements to be an “always on” organisation …read more Source:: IT Hardware