IT Blog Forbes reported a few days ago that database administration isone of the fastest-growingjobsin the United States. DBAs came in at #12, and are projected togofrom 104,000 in 2004 to 144,000 in 2014, an increase of38.20%. It should come as no shock that of the top 30 fastest-growing jo...
Oracle database administration, Oracle careers and certifications IT Blog "Oracle on Demand," "software-as-a-service" (SaaS), "utility computing" -- whatever buzzword you use, the long-hyped end of software finally seems to be gaining traction. Our recent survey of SearchOracle.com members revealed a surprisingly high 37% of you currently use hosted apps. Does that concer...
Oracle applications, Oracle careers and certifications IT Blog The current visit of American president Barak Obama to India resulted in signing contracts which will create thousands of jobs here in the US. These contracts were signed by giants such as GE and Boeing. When I was in India few years back, I saw the opportunity in the Indian markets that small busi...
Project management, Productivity, India IT Blog Question: I am hearing conflicting reports about the strength of the IT job market in the next few years. Is IT a field that a new grad should seriously consider? A recent article in the Boston Globe listed computer software and systems software engineers, computer applications software engineer...
IT Blog This question can be answered in several ways. If you want the highest-earning job, Petroleum Engineering is for you. If you want to be in the fastest-growing field, think medical, especially a Master's that can qualify you to be a Physician's Assistant. Computer Science? Not as good as an EE but no...
IT Blog As enterprise Oracle DBAs know first-hand, data growth these days is exponential. Gartner calculates that the average site doubles its data under management every 6 to 18 months. Terabyte-sized data stores were a novelty not too long ago but you'll soon be hearing more and more about petabtyes. That...
Oracle database administration, Managing an Oracle shop IT Blog There's been some news this week that the U.S. House of Representatives has gotten rid of its last mainframe. From the story: "It's a symbolic transition into the latest and greatest in terms of green technology, virtualization, consolidation and all those things," says Jack Nichols, director of ent...
IT Blog I started my week perched on a straight-back chair and juggling a tape recorder at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011. Many of Gartner's 10 top strategic IT trends and technologies laid out in the opening keynotes--cloud, mobile applications, social computing and predictive analytics--you've been read...
IT Blog Monday, July 25, this column asked the question, Where's the Best Place for a Programmer to Live? We got a stack of excellent answers -- more than we had room to publish in a single article. So today we have more answers for you. Sheel Mohnot, Director of Business Development for FeeFighters, says...
Chicago, Port St. Lucie, Florida IT Blog I've been writing about trends in IT Staff -- how the traditional role of the full-time staff is giving way to staff augmentation and services outsourcing, and how the more tech savvy crowd is supporting themselves. Meanwhile, economic trends aren't in our favor. Yes, most developed nations are st...
IT Blog I've published another tips on SearchSQLServer.com called "Tuning SQL Server performance via disk arrays and disk partitioning". This is sort of a partone of a two part series of tips on tuning the database server at the hardware level. In this tip I'm focusing on getting the disks setup just ...
Storage, Article, Disk Alignment IT Blog LAS VEGAS - There was a big push at this year's HP Technology Forum to convince end users to migrate off other systems to HP servers. This was my first year at the event, so I'm not sure if it was something new or not, but it was readily apparent. For example, on all the computers at the event wher...
IT Blog Over the past few months I've heard some mixed reviews from Oracle end users about Oracle's support services. Some folks I've spoken with say they get upset with certain Oracle support representatives who seem to be inexperienced. One person even went so far as to say that he purposely tries to ge...
Oracle database administration, Managing an Oracle shop, Oracle applications IT Blog On June 29, 2009, many Search400.com readers received an email that got them a little stirred up. I sent out our newsletter and presented an article on EGL and a blog on RPGAAS. This is what I wrote: So is EGL the new high-definition, flat-screen replacement to that old vacuum-tube television? Is R...
IT Blog Full Disclosure: First of all, I was a Sun employee just 8 months ago. While I am not currently a Sun employee, myself and/or my company does consulting work for Sun from time to time. I also work with other storage vendors as well, including significant work with EMC. Suffice to say, thi...
