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Jul 20
2010

Amazon and IBM are the Cloud's Biggest Players

Posted by: Floyd Tucker

Floyd Tucker

Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat, and VMware also rank high up on a survey by IT consulting firm BTC Logic

Amazon and IBM are the "cloud champions" according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat, and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field.

All tech vendors are embracing the cloud. Even those that don't provide public cloud services are fighting to become the top builders of infrastructures to support emerging cloud networks.

A new quarterly report from BTC Logic, an IT consulting firm, attempts to rank the top cloud players, and puts them into seven broad categories: cloud foundations, infrastructure, network services, platforms, applications, security and management.

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May 27
2010

Tech Hiring Proves More Challenging as Economy Recovers

Posted by: Floyd Tucker

Tagged in: talent , Sprint , software , silicon valley , sailpoint , SaaS , Red Hat , jobs , Facebook , Economy , convio
Floyd Tucker

Companies From Texas to Missouri Rethink Tactics to Attract Talent as Competition Grows; Employing the Personal Pitch

The pickup in tech hiring is spreading beyond Silicon Valley, forcing companies outside the big tech center to rethink their recruiting tactics.

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Companies in second-tier tech locations such as Austin, Texas, and Raleigh, N.C., had an easier time recruiting talented employees during the slump. But now that Silicon Valley firms have started aggressively hirig, and the general economy is improving, competition is stiffe"We've always had a bit of a competition for talent with Silicon Valley," says Julie Huls, president of the Austin Technology Council, a trade group of Austin-area technology executives. "As firms over there start to recover, we have to make sure we stay in the game."

Convio Inc., a 370-employee Austin-based maker of fundraising software, continued adding employees during the recession, hiring about 35 people last year. "We were able to recruit incredible people that we couldn't have gotten before the recession," says Angie McDermott, vice president of human resources.

That has gotten harder this year. Convio is planning to increase hiring and is looking for six engineers now. Employee referrals are a big source of new hires, so earlier this year, the firm started a program where employees can easily send Convio job openings to connections on their Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts. On Facebook, employees can install an application that lists a company's job openings.

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