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IT Architects Must “Ask the Right Questions”: CIO

CIOs and IT managers agree that qualified IT architects are in high demand these days, according to a recent article from Computerworld.

IT architects must "ask the right questions," said Bruce Carver, vice president and CIO of Cummins, Inc.

As organizations grapple with information overload, mounting complexity and converging trends, including cloud, mobility, they are seeking out IT architects who are capable of addressing the "increased levels of integration." Finding qualified IT architects, however, isn’t always easy because the ideal candidate is, “versed in multiple disciplines and is capable of seeing across a range of technologies and processes,” said the article.

Read the full article: IT architects emerge as tech's new gurus 

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Analysts Predict Self-Service BI Applications Will Dominate in 2011

Analysts predict an increased demand for self-service business intelligence systems and SaaS-based BI applications in 2011, according to CIO.

Self-service BI and service-as-a-service or Saas-based business intelligence, including “Web-based interactive querying and reporting tools that are designed to put more data analytics capabilities into the hands of end users, said James Kobielus, an analyst at Forrester Research.

Self-service BI tools can help decrease business information overload and "take the burden off IT and speed up the development of reports to a considerable degree," Kobielus said.

Read the full article at: Self-Service BI, SaaS, Analytics Will Dominate in 2011

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Twitter Sets New Record on New Year's Eve

The social media provider Twitter broke its own record for sending tweets this New Year's eve. Twitter users sent 6,939 Tweets per second. More than 400,000 Twitter messages were sent during a single minute of the New Year. Twitter broke its own record of 3,283 Tweets sent per second, which were recorded during the Japanese versus Denmark game of the 2010 World Cup. Read the original article: A Record-Breaking New Year’s Eve for Twitter.

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