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No woman in tech is an island: Harnessing the power of networking | #wov16
With the expanding world of social media, there are more ways than ever for professionals to connect and converse with each other online. And that’s well and good, but some still desire to forge relationships with people in person. The Anita Borg Institute wants to help women in technology take it to the real world, ...
Internet of Everything: Will we all be technologists in the future? | #wov16
It’s commonly said these days all companies will have to become technology companies in the future. We’re seeing this borne out in fields from automotive to household appliances. So what about employees? Will they all have to become technologists? Ana Pinczuk, the Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision Awards emcee and EVP and chief product officer at Veritas ...
How do you build an award-winning application with three people? | #wov16
A lot of startups never see the light of day because their would-be founders aren’t able to secure funding from VCs. A big chunk of the money they need is to pay the salaries of team members. It would be so much cheaper to launch if there were a way to reduce the manpower needed ...
How role models can spur young techies to success | #wov16
The general public can sometimes view technologists as unrelatable cyborgs with whom they have little in common. They can’t imagine that they would ever be able to code or program or do all the other impressive things they do. And then one day, they meet a chatty, funny, down-to-earth human — who happens to write ...
Paying it forward: Mentoring tomorrow’s IT innovators | #wov16
If the competition to recruit top IT talent is any indication, we’re going to need to find ways to get more young people interested in careers in computing. The problem is many kids — especially females — view IT as a daunting field that only a handful of genetic wonders are cut out for. To ...
How is marketing to your customers like dating? | #CUBEconversations
We all keep hearing about how the future of marketing lies with Big Data — that it will enable us to understand our customers like never before. But gleaning data on customers can be difficult in the beginning, especially if the majority of traffic to your site is anonymous. Cory Munchbach, VP of Marketing at ...
Open and closed: The cloud’s security balancing act | #infa16
What’s the best and worst thing about the cloud? Openness. Being so accessible is, on the one hand, freeing and democratizing and a potential security nightmare on the other. With the march to cloud showing no signs of slowing, providers now have to ask (and answer) hard questions about security. A common security model used ...
Data geeks wanted: The new role of the chief data officer | #infa16
New technology; new technology job title. With companies scrambling to figure out what data products and services they need to keep up with the digital transformation, they might consider hiring someone with expertise to help them figure it all out. Enter the new role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO). A self-described “data geek” and ...
What does it mean to stay ‘sticky’ in today’s IT economy? | #infa16
“Productization” is a term that’s popping up in conversations about IT these days. More than ever, elements are being sliced into smaller elements and marketed individually as “solutions.” Customers have significant freedom to love ’em and leave ’em as newer, trendier offerings come available. In this environment, companies have to find creative ways of earning ...
Taking bets: Who will win and who will lose in Big Data? | #infa16
A sold out conference with 3,000 attendees, Informatica World 2016 could be the Big Data event of the year. And why not? Informatica Corp. has set itself apart from the crowd by positioning itself as a data company — period — not another IT company dabbling in data. John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts ...
