Corporate Technology Field Set To Evolve Over The Next Five Years

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Contributor

technology in the work placeIf you are in the IT field, you have probably noticed the landscape changing in your corporate office.  More and more employees are bringing their own mobile devices to work on rather than the office desk tops typically provided and managed.  Applications, servers and networks are a few of the challenges IT providers now need to address.

According to Gartner Vice President David Cearley, who held a symposium in Orlando, FL this week, businesses are going to be investing money to improve network capacities and improve wireless manageability and service levels over the next few years.

By 2015, media tablet shipments will reach around 50% of laptop shipments and Windows 8 will likely be in third place behind Android and Apple.   Microsoft’s share will likely be around 60% and it could fall below 50%.

Touch and voice searches on mobile apps are becoming more and more frequent, so the applications run on them are different. Businesses need to use a managed diversity approach to focus apps by risk and value. Where the business value of an app is low and the potential risk, such as the loss of sensitive data, is high, certain apps might be blocked entirely.

Intelligent devices such as smart phones with cameras, microphones, and sensors, are all part of the office atmosphere and raise privacy concerns.  IT Technicians will need some central unified management of all these devices.

Data storage is another emerging issue in businesses.  Cloud computing will become the next battleground for Google and Amazon. Going forward, IT will be concerned with developing hybrid private and public cloud apps.

If you need to brush up on your Oracle ADF training, there are online courses you can take after work hours.  Technology in the work place is changing, and so are the mobile devices being used.  IT Technicians will need to be able to manage systems accordingly.

 

 

 

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Oracle Training Necessary For Developers

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Contributor
You may have heard all the buzz about Oracle training, but do not understand why this is a valuable language to learn and why developers use it.  If you are contemplating entering the world of technology and development, there are some useful Oracle training courses you should take to build your skills.  Database administration is a skill that is in high demand in our new technological & informational era.
Many websites that deliver dynamic information rely on a database and proper querying language. A database is an organized collection of data that can be in text or in pictures or programs or anything else in binary form.  Oracle is the most popular database because it has the most advanced capabilities.  Oracle runs in operating systems that manage how data is stored and accessed.  For a developer to access the data, they need to know Structured Query Language, or SQL. Oracle has it’s own flavor of SQL known as PL/SQL which  is a more advanced querying language also used to develop database applications and takes full advantage of the unparalleled strengths of Oracle and it’s tools. Once you know SQL and PL/SQL, you can access the database and write stored procedures and run scripts to retrieve data.  Oracle ADF training is an even more robust language class that will teach you to write code and further develop your DBA skills.
There is a 2 year old start up company in Highland Park, Illinois, that is hiring adults with Autism as testers of Oracle software.  The software testers at Aspiritech are all intelligent, or highly intelligent, adults that have difficulty finding and holding a job due to their quirky social skills caused by Autism.  However, although their social skills need improving, their ability to find software bugs is excellent. The owners of Aspiritech, Moshe and Brenda Weitzberg, have created an atmosphere of professionalism along with the acceptance of behavioral quirks such as needing to work alone, avoidance of bright lights or loud noises or the feel of carpeting.
Aspiritech is a nonprofit and currently, 60% of its revenue comes from donations, and 40% from clients. Their hope is to have a 50-50 split of revenue sources over the next year.  If you would like to find out more about Aspiritech, go to USA Today for the full story.
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Grilled Cheese Sandwiches About To Get High Tech

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Contributor

Technology development is robust today.  Take for instance the new Melt developed by Johnathan Kaplan, original developer of the Flip video camera.  Johnathan is taking his technology know-how to the restaurant business, and opening a chain of grilled-cheese sandwich restaurants that customers can order on their mobile phone and then scan a Quick Response code, or bar code, on the phone’s  screen when they arrive.  The QR code prompts the grill to make your sandwich.  Johnathan hopes to serve hot grilled-cheese sandwiches within two minutes.  Sequoia Capital is an investor, the company has an impressive board of directors and the goal is to open a few Melts in the next few months in San Francisco and then 500 more restaurants nationwide in the next five years.

Creativity and technology savvy combined with an insight as to what consumers are looking for is a recipe for success.  If you have the kind of vision Johnathan Kaplan has but could use a little help in the field of technology, Firebox Training uses the latest state-of-the-art collaboration tools, experienced instructors, advanced curriculum, and hands-on labs.  Through their online classrooms, they deliver traditional content through virtual interactive learning.  Courses range from SQL and PL/SQL to advanced Oracle ADF Training.  Java classes include basic Java, JSF, servlets and EJBs.  UNI and Linux shell scripting, Linux administration and Perl programming are also available.  All classes are taught by Oracle Certified Professionals and certifications will be sent upon satisfactory completion of course work.

Johnathan believes the grilled cheese sandwich business will take off because in these difficult economic times, people are looking for comfort food.  For more information on this story, visit the Huffington Post.  Grilled cheese anyone?

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Steve Jobs Resigning From Apple

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Contributor

Steve Jobs has been on medical leave for the last six months from Apple. This was the second medical leave for Jobs. The first one was to fight pancreatic cancer a few years ago but he had a transplant and was healthy enough to come back to work. With this medical leave, he has decided not to come back.

Steve Jobs’ shoes are big ones to fill. It is difficult to find a person that knows how to marry technology with the intrinsic qualities of products that people want. At the launch of the iPad2, Steve said, “It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough. It’s technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities that yields the results that make our hearts sing.”  What a statement! If you are taking ADF Oracle Training courses, try to imagine ways of applying that technolgy to creative, out of the box possibilities.

However, while Steve has been on medical leave, COO Tim Cook has been steering the ship at Apple and focusing on efficient manufacturing and delivery of products like the iPhone and iPad which have produced high margins for Apple. So clearly, Tim Cook has the business savvy Apple needs, but will he have Steve’s insights? With Jony Ive, the creative genius behind every new product since the iMac, the two men together should do great things for Apple and the future looks bright.

For more information on the resignation from Steve Jobs, a full article has been written on Reuters.

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