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CAREER WATCH

Developer, Engineer, or Architect?  Defining the differences between disciplines

By Andrew Anguelo
Back in the day, those who wrote software applications in the business space were called programmers. It was simple to understand what the work was at a particular level. For instance, a Programmer III was more experienced than a Programmer I. But over time, the title evolved to Programmer Analysts I, II, or III. Today we have software developers, engineers, and fairly recently, the new title of architect. A frustrating phenomena occurring around these titles is that developer and engineer are being used interchangeably, although they are distinct disciplines. In my opinion, the role of software architect has evolved as a result of interchanging developer and engineer titles to segregate specific skills a software engineer typically performs during the systems engineering process.

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The Cloud Reaches the Enterprise; Development , testing, and analytics uses

By Peggy Albright

Cloud computing is attracting interest in the enterprise sector, prompted in part by an expanding supply of cloud services, increased use of Web-enabled technologies, and, organizations' need for cost efficiencies. 

"The economy is an enormous accelerator," said Greg Papdopoulos, Sun Microsystems CTO and executive vice president for research and development, while addressing the audience at the recent GigaOm Structure 09 conference on cloud computing. "A year from now we'll look back and say this is where it hit."

 

 

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How Useful is san MBA? Earning a business degree can open new doors

By Rachelle Crum
A master's degree in business administration may be the most valuable asset for a computing professional eager to climb the corporate ladder, get back into the workforce faster or keep a startup chugging along.
 
 Yes, the stately glow of the letters M-B-A on your resume will help your chances in the marketplace. In its 2009 Year-End Follow-Up Poll of Employers, the Graduate Management Admission Council noted that it expects a slight increase--from 65 percent in 2009 to 69 percent in 2010--in the proportion of companies hiring new MBA graduates.

Teaching and Technology

An Interview with Sorel Reisman

Sorel Reisman: Technology and Teaching
 
Name: Sorel Reisman
Title: Professor, Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, California State University Fullerton; managing director for the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT); IEEE Computer Society vice president-publications
Academic degree: PhD in computer applications, University of Toronto
Career highlights: Working for IBM, being on the founding board of IT Professional magazine.

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Sixty-six percent of workers would choose a lower-paying job with work-from-home options over an opportunity with a higher salary but less flexibility, according to a recent Cisco international study.
 

"And 60 percent of the respondents feel that they don't have to be in the office to be productive. A whopping 93 percent of surveyed employees in India said their productivity isn't limited to office time, which 81 percent of respondents from China and 76 percent of those surveyed from Brazil felt the same.

 

"Work is not a place anymore. It's a lifestyle, and the IT profession's role is only going to get more strategic as it tries to help businesses stay agile and increase productivity," said Dave Evans, futurist and chief technologist within Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group.

 

This desire to work anywhere at anytime poses quite a challenge for IT departments as 45 percent of the respondents said they aren't prepared (policy- and technology-wise) to support such a workforce.

 

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