Closing the Skills Gap: Why You and Your Company Need Workforce Transformation

If you’re a traditional IT specialist such as a systems administrator, developer or service manager, then you are probably already thinking about long-term career development. As more roles consolidate and functionality automates, you’ll likely have lots of questions. How do I get more strategic? How do I get closer to the business, and how do I add value so that I can’t be outsourced?

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IT Workers in 2015: Hire for Fit, Train for Skill

As the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed workers continue their downward trends in 2015, the trend creates additional question about high demand and highly skilled workers, such as IT workers. If the overall employment rate is 94.5 percent what is the rate for those with highly desirable skills?

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What You Need to Know about Power8 and NVIDIA GPUs

Last December, I wrote a blog post about big data. In it I mentioned the central role the massive number crunching capability of the new Power8 CPU plays in meeting the demands of today’s big computing tasks. In this post, I want to focus on one of the key components of the Power8 compute solution, which is its ability to make use of hardware based computational accelerators.

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