Friday January 10, 2025

Health related information technology – growth area

The federal government’s emphatic push into health-related information technologies is likely to generate a wave of new work for IT contractors.     The deployment of health IT systems - most notably electronic medical records that can be exchanged among patients, doctors, specialists and other health care providers - is high on President Barack Obama’s priority list. […]

NorthScale’s Memecached Data Management Technology Attracts Zynga And Others

Under the radar startup NorthScale is publicly launching today with a new data management technology to help web-based companies, particularly startups that deal with large amounts of transactional data. For example, social gaming giant Zynga has been using NorthScale since December. Founded by leaders of the memcached open source project, NorthScale is like Cloudera for […]

VMware To Acquire Technology From Parent Company EMC For $200 Million

Virtualization giant VMware is set to acquire select technologies from parent company EMC. VMware will be buying up certain technologies from EMC’s Ionix IT management business, including solutions aimed at delivering improved management and deployment of servers and applications in a virtualized data center. The transaction is valued at $200 million and is expected to […]

Watson Wyatt: Employers likely to continue improvements to HR technology in 2010

As companies prepare for the economic recovery, many are poised to enter 2010 with renewed interest in improving their HR technology systems, processes and organizational structures, according to experts at Watson Wyatt, a leading global consulting firm. “In the current economy, organizations will keep a watchful eye on their spending as they analyze their investments […]

Microsoft Director John Oxley: Leading Multi-Award Winning International Technology Authority and Executive–John talks about the drivers for strong leadership plus shares his top career tips and lessons

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Microsoft Director John Oxley: Leading Multi-Award Winning International Technology Authority and Executive; John talks about the drivers for strong leadership plus shares his top career tips and lessons. Enjoy, Stephen Ibaraki, FCIPS, ISP, ITCP/IP3P, […]