TalkingTech
The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Change never lets up in technology, and the best developers must stay atop all the latest shifts, from big data to cloud computing to consumerization and beyond. InfoWorld's experts offer guidance to programmers on trends to watch, best practices to adopt, and sins to drop. They also point out programming languages on the rise, the best areas to find tech jobs, and the business skills to master.
By InfoWorld staff | 25 April, 2012 00:03
Big data is reshaping business IT. Thanks to cheap storage, massive processing power, and tools like Hadoop, organizations are now able to mine terabytes of information and derive useful business intelligence from it. But the data revolution is also creating a new breed of hybrid business-IT jobs, ones that blend business knowledge and powerful IT tools to the benefit of tech-savvy line-of-business professionals -- and the possible detriment of IT pros oblivious to the big data trend.
By Dan Tynan | 19 March, 2012 21:24
How do you keep your job -- or get a better one -- in an era when hiring is in a freeze and budgets are perpetually squeezed? Follow these 12 maxims and find out.
By Dan Tynan | 17 January, 2012 22:08
Tips on implementing the latest in technology, how-tos for finding employment or contentment in a current job, analyses of "what's on the horizon" -- it's one thing to keep up with all the information out there. It's quite another to put it all into practice.
By InfoWorld staff | 29 December, 2011 03:10
Before tablets, smartphones, and PCs became prominent, "big iron" mainframes led down the path to computing, becoming a staple of enterprise business worldwide several decades ago.
By Paul Krill | 01 December, 2011 22:20
Spend enough time in the tech industry, and you'll eventually find yourself in IT hell -- one not unlike the underworld described by Dante in his "Divine Comedy."
By Dan Tynan | 03 October, 2011 21:11
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