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The Unix sysadmin salary premium

A review of job openings at major American employers shows that there is no "Unix salary premium" but there is a 15% or so skills premium reflecting the typical Unix sysadmin's ability to fill other roles - like those of the DBA or Windows administrator - without, as it were,...

Tags: System Administrator, Wintel, Data-processing, Salary, Payscale, Outliers, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-08-13

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The role of data governance in the enterprise

According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...

Tags: Data Quality, Data Governance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, data management, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News

News items 2009-11-12

JMP 8.0.2 (Mac)

JMP Statistical Discovery Software dynamically links statistics with graphics to interactively explore, understand, and visualize data. Designed for anyone who wants to discover relationships and outliers in their data, JMP provides a comprehensive set of traditional statistical tools as well as design of experiments and statistical quality control in a...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, SAS Institute, Quality, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-10-23

The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards

On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it's interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Open Standard, Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-25

4 reasons NOT to upgrade to Snow Leopard today

AV software is not compatible.For companies and universities that use NAC, there are little to no AV products that are compatible. Prior to SnowLeopard, there were McAfee and Symantec/Norton. Right now about nothing works, screwing the NAC policies for folks.Oh wait, Mac's dont get viruses. LOL ...

Tags: Scanners, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, AV Software, Disk Utility, operating system, Robin, Snow Leopard, hardware, scanner, Time Machine, Apple Macintosh, software

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

While Apple enjoys having billions in the bank, some iPhone developers are having a hard time getting paid

While Apple enjoys having billions in the bank, some iPhone developers are having a hard time getting paidWowUnbelievableSucksMan that really sucks. I hope Apple has a good reason for this bullcwap immature behaviour.GRINDING is how the rich...get rich.Imagine the outrage......if this were Microsoft. Too bad there's not an app...

Tags: Financial services, Operational accounting, AppStore, Apple Inc., iPhone Developers, developer, bank, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Stop Guessing!! Discover if Something Went Wrong With Any Well

The AssayCheX can help determine the integrity, accuracy, and precision of xMAP assay data. When used along with the MasterPlex Software, the flagged data points can be efficiently marked and removed. This leads to enhanced confidence in the data obtained, providing justification for removal of outliers and improving the robustness...

Tags: Radix Services

White papers 2009-04-23

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?It's about money - not your healthThe health insurance industry had the highest median CEO compensation. Over $10 million and that's just the median. Half of those guys made more than that.One would be foolish to believe that those rather happy CEOs...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Healthcare reform, Insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Time for SOA 'Outliers' to reshape service orientation?

Time for SOA 'Outliers' to reshape service orientation?Over 10,000 hours spent on SOAUh..., I started in 1977 as a programmer. Since my first little tiny program I had in mind: modularity, binding versus coupling, generic (shareable, reusable, stateless, autonomous) functions, business focus... It was a kind of natural thinking to...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, service orientation

Discussion threads 2009-01-24

Time for SOA 'Outliers' to reshape service orientation?

I've been reading Malcolm Gladwell's latest work, Outliers, which is packed full of interesting observations about people who rose above the rest and achieved incredible success in their respective endeavors. An interesting point Gladwell makes is that all people successful in their respective fields all have one...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-01-19

What's the take-away from Apple slashing iPhone production?

What's the take-away from Apple slashing iPhone production?Approaching End Of Cycle?MacRumors also points out that it's been 116 days since the 3G was released, and it was 126 days between the first iPhone and the 3G. Is it possible that Apple is looking at the end of the life cycle...

Tags: 3G, Cellular phones, obama, Apple Inc., iPhone Production, Apple iPhone, take-away

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Some Clustering Algorithms to Enhance the Performance of the Network Intrusion Detection System

Most current intrusion detection systems are signature based ones or machine learning based methods. Despite the number of machine learning algorithms applied to KDD 99 cup, none of them have introduced a pre-model to reduce the huge information quantity present in the different KDD 99 datasets. Clustering is an important...

Tags: Algorithm, Network Intrusion Detection System, Performance, Network, Clustering, Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2008-09-07

Google calls for hike in H-1B visas

Google calls for hike in H-1B visasThey immigrate because their country sucksThere's plenty of ways to make money in their own country.The Internet is computers talking to computers.very wellHow about lobbying for changing the H1-B process this way:1.increase the application fee since they displace Americans that paid taxes and loans...

Tags: Benefits, Google Inc., H-1B, information technology, Microsoft Windows, salary, hike, application fee

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

XL Audit Commander 1.52a (Windows)

Command language software - used for audits of: audit identification of duplicates, gaps, audit for outliers, population summaries, data classification and stratification, univariate statistics, audit sample size computations, percentiles/quartiles, federal holiday dates, and histograms, testing Benford's law, cumulative monetary amount sampling for audits, interval sampling, cross tabulations, account ageing, and...

Tags: Audit, Microsoft Windows, EZ-R Stats, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-03-12

TechNet Webcast: Mining for Quality: Apply Adaptive Data Quality With SQL Server Data Mining (Level 200)

Good quality data is essential to a successful business intelligence application. Most of them are probably aware that Microsoft SQL Server includes some useful data quality tools such as Fuzzy Grouping or Fuzzy Lookup. However, there is one tool people may have overlooked - SQL Server Data Mining. When used...

Tags: Data Quality, Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft TechNet, Quality Data, Business Intelligence, Databases, Data Mining, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

Webcasts 2008-01-17

Scalable Robust Covariance and Correlation Estimates for Data Mining

Covariance and correlation estimates have important applications in data mining. In the presence of outliers, classical estimates of covariance and correlation matrices are not reliable. A small fraction of outliers, in some cases even a single outlier, can distort the classical covariance and correlation estimates making them virtually useless. That...

Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2008-01-01

Poor iPod touch battery life

Poor iPod touch battery lifeSSH?Supposedly if you have installed 3rd party apps, SSH coul be eating your battery life. iphonealley has instructions on how to solve this issue:http://www.iphonealley.com/tips-and-tricks/regain-battery-life-after-installing-3rd-party-applicationsHope this helps.Didn't take long for the irreplaceable batteries to start dying!!Gee, no one predicted this! Oh wait, everyone did! Oh well, no...

Tags: Engineering, battery, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Poor iPod touch battery life, Poor iPod touch

Discussion threads 2007-10-25

A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2

A new survey of the personal use of Web 2.0 applications by CIOs emerged late last week and provided another interesting, if high-level, datapoint about the future of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Carried out by CIO Insight, the survey reported the usual trends like high rates of use...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, AJAX, Network, Ruby On Rails, Idea, Product, Business, Amazon.com Inc., Semantic Web, Office 2.0, Jury, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-08-27

Fractal Map Add-in for Excel 2007 1 (Windows)

Act on the key messages in your data while it counts. Spot patterns and outliers in your data at a glance with Fractal Map Add-in for Excel 2007. Leveraging the new pivot table features in the latest version of Excel, Fractal Map Add-in for Excel 2007 puts Fractal Edge's innovative...

Tags: Fractal, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Excel 2007, Fractal Edge, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2007-05-21

Using SAS Proc NLMIXED for Robust Regression

This paper shows how the NLMIXED procedure can be used to fit linear models (simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, analysis of variance and analysis of covariance) when data are not normally distributed or contaminated with potential outliers. This is accomplished using PROC NLMIXED's capability of fitting user defined distributions...

Tags: Regression, SAS Institute

White papers 2007-05-14