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• IDG Contributor Network: Why Chef's approach to DevOps substantiates the ITaaS delivery model

  20-03-2016 18:22
  
  Adam Jacob, CTO of Chef, the leading IT-automation firm, in an article, "The secret of DevOps: it's always been about people, not technology" is a masterpiece. I agree with several of his points about the nature of DevOps, its purpose and benefits, they substantiate the principles of the ITaaS delivery model.DevOps transcends the tools and infrastructure considerationsAdam sees DevOps as a system of people, principles and practices shared across the organization and purposely assembled to achie
  
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• Laid-off Abbott IT workers won’t have to train their replacements

  20-03-2016 18:05
  
  An angry letter from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) protesting Abbott Labs' IT employee layoff may be having an impact, but not the way the senator wanted.
  The layoffs are part of plan by Abbott to shift some IT work to India-based Wipro, a major user H-1B visas, and Abbott is proceeding with the cuts despite Durbin's plea "to reconsider this plan and retain these U.S. workers."
  Abbott put the number of impacted IT employees at "fewer than 150." Durbin's letter has it at 180.
  But Abbott may be makin
  
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• Twitter’s Jack Dorsey takes on censorship, trolls and the 140-character limit

  20-03-2016 18:02
  
  In a morning news television interview today, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey said the company doesn't censor users' tweets, and the company's not doing away with the 140-character message limit.
  Dorsey gave a wide-ranging interview to Matt Lauer on The Today Show, marking the tenth anniversary of the micro-blogging site. Twitter has gained a huge mainstream following but still struggles with its bottom line, attracting new users and the loss of key employees.To read this article in full
  
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• MIT: Red lights could someday be a thing of the past

  20-03-2016 18:01
  
  As vehicles become more wirelessly connected, communicating with each other and the infrastructure around them, traffic lights may become an unecessary impediment in getting from A to B.
  Instead of stopping for traffic lights, sensor-laden vehicles would communicate with each other and perform a kind of ballet around each other, according to a new study by MIT.
  The study claims this kind of traffic-light-free transportation design, if it ever arrives, could allow twice as much traffic to use ex
  
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