From developers to DBAs: The hottest outsourced IT jobs

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	From developers to DBAs: The hottest outsourced IT jobs Around one-third of organizations will spend more money on IT outsourcing over the next 18 months, while 48 percent plant to hire more contractors, according to IT staffing agency Bluewolf's recent report, entitled "2012-2013 State of IT Outsourcing." The reasons for the upshift: Companies are eager to dig into piping-hot technologies like cloud, big data, and mobile but can't find sufficiently skilled IT workers to fill related job openings. Couple that talent shortfall with the ever-present need for speed to market, and the need for outsourcing becomes a bit clearer, though perhaps still tough to stomach for unemployed or underemployed IT pros in the United States. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eucalyptus Systems Blending Clouds: A Blueprint for Your Hybrid Future Read this whitepaper to understand what important motivations drive the move towards hybrid cloud, how to design your hybrid cloud based on intended usage patterns, what basic components comprise hybrid clouds, and useful principles to consider when designing your cloud. Read Now! In this Issue Microsoft starts taking orders for $14.99 Windows 8 upgrade Amazon Web Services launches low-cost storage service Buggy McAfee antivirus update causes problems for home and business users ICANN expects gTLD application processing to start in December RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Microsoft starts taking orders for $14.99 Windows 8 upgrade Microsoft on Monday began taking orders for the $14.99 Windows 8 upgrade promised to customers who purchased a new Windows 7-powered PC in the last 11 weeks. People who bought an eligible Windows 7 machine after June 1 can now file an online form to queue up for the Oct. 26 delivery of the upgrade. Read More Amazon Web Services launches low-cost storage service Amazon Web Services has announced Glacier, a low-cost storage service that has been customized for data archiving and backup, the company said on Monday. Storing data using Glacier costs from $0.01 per gigabyte per month. Areas that are a good fit for Glacier include media archives, financial and healthcare records, raw genomic sequence data, long-term database backups, and information that has to be retained for regulatory compliance, it said. Read More Buggy McAfee antivirus update causes problems for home and business users A buggy update released Friday by security vendor McAfee for its consumer and enterprise antivirus products, left the computers of its customers unprotected and, in some cases, unable to access the Internet. Read More ICANN expects gTLD application processing to start in December The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it would take up to December to come up with a process for handling the large number of applications for gTLDs (generic top-level domains). There are close to 2,000 applications for gTLDs, and ICANN has said it is only possible to add 1,000 new gTLDs to the Root Zone per year, making it important that the organization evolves a process to handle the applications in batches. Read More
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