D&B Jobs in Dublin!
Apr/100
D&B, formerly known as Dun and Bradstreet, officially launched in Ireland on 9th February 2010. They are the worlds leading supplier of business information and will be setting up their hub for Irish operations in Sandyford, Dublin.
D&B is the world’s leading and longest-established business information company. For 166 years they have been providing business, credit, receivables and marketing information to more than 140 million clients spanning over 200 countries. D&B provides solution sets that meet a diverse set of customer needs globally to mitigate credit and supplier risk, increase cash flow and drive increased profitability.
Their Dublin-based operation will serve customers through a range of technology and operations functions. It will be responsible for the collection and processing of data on subject companies. As part of this operation they will be looking for highly skilled java developers at all levels for permanent positions. They will be recruiting for over 200 positions within the next 18 months for the Sandyford office and so have partnered up with Premier Recruitment.
Is Google going to dominate Cloud Computing?
Apr/100
With Google dominating the top spot in Internet search, which recent research says, to the point of actually impacting overall Internet traffic, they look to cement their ad placement dominance though mobile phone and cloud computing based applications and platforms.
They are also building massive datacenters to ensure their place in the dynamic, maturing cloud computing paradigm.
Google wont settle for anything less than market leader status which raises the question, who is going to compete, Microsoft seem to have been slower to announce their Cloud based Products and as a result have missed that initial “we are the 1st” claim and all the marketing buzz that go’s with it.
Microsoft’s best chance would appear to be to offer an improved version based on the same technology by focusing on usability, if they can focus on the “customer/user” in the way they have always done so successfully before they might stand a chance of competing with Google and who knows, a chance of becoming market leader in the Cloud arena.
Blogging: The Way Forward
Apr/100
Blog, Tweet, Twitter, Comment, Chat, Facebooking – whatever you want to call it or whatever medium you choose to use, nobody today can escape the phenomenon that is Blogging. One of the forefathers of this online sensation is Pat Phelan who won Blogger of the Year at the Irish Blog Awards. From his background of being a butcher turned chef he went on to become a leading Entrepreneur with his telecommunications business active in 230 countries worldwide with a business model that costs zero and sold it for X. It wasn’t just this excellent business model that led to Pat’s success but a mammoth amount of patience and continuous blogging that enabled him to post his ideas to the masses.
The Blog world is an infinite community and a lot of people have web access and opinions’ and views that can be strewn across the www in nano-seconds. The current climate is constantly changing and emerging from it is a savvy class of people who choose to voice their opinion, so lets join them and you never know what might become of you!!
IT Certifications: Are they held in high regard?
Apr/100
SearchDataCenter.com have conducted a survey on IT certifications which is quite an interesting read!
According to this survey, regard for IT certifications has taken a nosedive with 80% of respondents saying that IT certifications had no impact on their hiring, promotion or salary. According to research from Foote Partners LLC, and IT job research firm, the pay for noncertified IT skills now averages more than pay for IT certifications.
According to David Foote, CEO of Foote partners, exceptions have been a selection of security, networking, systems and database certifications, plus a few in the architecture and project management areas that are showing solid pay growth numbers.
One of the main exceptions is in the area of Virtualization. “People that were smart in 2004 saw virtualization coming. Today everybody wants employees with three to four years of virtualization experience,” Foote said. “Certifications can be valuable, but you’ve got to combine them with a judgment of the market. What’s going to be important in three to five years?”. To read this article in more detail go to www.searchdatacenter.com
Here at Verkom we still see a demand for IT certifications in roles coming in. Certifications that continue to be in demand are CCNA, MCSE, ISEB, ITIL, CISSP, Prince 2 and one that is becoming more and more popular is VCP. These certifications are still held in high regard by clients we work with across Ireland.
What do you think?