John Hanbury of Storm Technology explains how his hurling skills have helped his career as a software engineer. John Hanbury is a Galway hurler but, in his day-to-day job, he’s also a software engineer with Storm Technology. While his diverse passions might seem worlds apart, he has discovered that many of the technical and soft skills …
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Siliconrepublic.com spoke to Arturo Ruvalcaba, an audit advisory manager in Viasat, about his experiences of moving from San Diego to Dublin. Arturo Ruvalcaba is an audit advisory manager in Viasat, Dublin, but he’s only been living in the city for about three months. He moved from San Diego in California to join the company’s in-flight …
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Andrew Coulter discusses his internship with Liberty IT and why he decided to return to the company through its graduate programme. When a company treats its workers well, they’re far more likely to stick around. That has certainly been the case for Andrew Coulter, an associate software engineer at Liberty IT. While studying computer science …
New Relic’s Guro McCrea discusses the company’s hiring process and what it looks for in prospective candidates. What does it take not only to bag a job with New Relic, but to fit in with its employees and culture? Siliconrepublic.com spoke to the company’s senior director of EMEA solution engineering, Guro McCrea, to find out …
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Juhi Shrivastava, data analytics consultant at PwC, feels confident in the open and diverse culture at PwC. For graduates of computer science and related fields, there are plenty of job opportunities out there. This is especially true in light of the steps we’ve been taking towards the future of work, where we’ll need a talented …
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Buy a ticket. Attend the event. Have fun. It seems a simple process. But today’s ticket agents are doing more than selling admissions to sports games or concerts. Thanks to new data technologies, customers are tracked from the minute they first visit a sales site through to when they leave the venue after the event. This …
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Men are dying in startling numbers, and growing a mustache just might help. Three major causes — prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and suicide — account for why men are dying, on average, six years earlier than women. Forty-five men die of prostate cancer every hour, and 60 males will die from suicide in the same …
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(This article has been updated with an extended review of Carbon Black to reflect Tom Barsi’s selection as theCUBE’s Guest of the Week.) Don’t look now, but VMware Inc. has built a significant cybersecurity practice. The August acquisition of Carbon Black Inc. for $2.1 billion represented a major step forward for the network virtualization vendor’s …
In life and in business, we often ask – and are asked by others – the question, How do you make the right decision?” For me, it comes down to one thing: Will your family be proud? No matter what you do during the day to make things happen, there is one simple fact: If …
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. Yehuda Berg There’s a famous saying that a picture paints a thousand words. And it does. Art illuminates the world around us in a way that words would often struggle. Yet at the same time, a single word can change the world in ways a …
Because contentment is all we should strive for. Not perfection. Not being “the best”. Not standing over others, looking down. Just being content. Content in our lives. Content with those we love, and those who love us. Content with our here and now. Content with the life we have, versus the life we’re told we …
While browsing the homepage of my preferred sports site the other day, I saw an ad for a “content engine”, to help with blog post ideas. Given that I’ve had a little bit of a battle in the past with companies and consultants that offer a quick-fix “this will change your life/business!” promise, I thought …
