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1 week ago | spiceworks.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

When I started in the IT job market, we were still looking for jobs in the classified sections of paper newspapers. That may sound like trying to build a computer with stone knives and bearskins, but it really wasn’t that long ago. Since those days in the 1980s, technology and its jobs’ rate of change have only accelerated. As fast as the onset of the commercial Internet and the PC transformed job hunting, nothing in recent years has sped up that change so much as the rise of AI.

2 weeks ago | spiceworks.com | Rich Brown

Among the highlights at this year’s Dell Tech World conference, Dell spent a lot of time talking up its newly refreshed Dell AI Factory suite of enterprise hardware products. Encompassing laptops, desktops, switches, servers, storage, power management, and software to manage it all, the AI Factor promises a turnkey, but also customizable solution for companies looking to scale their AI capabilities.

2 weeks ago | spiceworks.com | Rich Brown

(Credits: Rich Brown/Spiceworks) If last year’s Dell Tech World Conference was all about announcing the company’s renewed focus on AI, the 2025 edition focused on showing how its enterprise customers are using AI with Dell’s help. Along with the specific use cases, Dell also shined a spotlight on its own hardware for bringing these use cases to life, including its new Dell AI Factory suite of AI-optimized infrastructure products built in partnership with Nvidia. CEO Michael Dell tidily summed...

1 month ago | spiceworks.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

If you believe the grindbro orthodoxy, the only way to get ahead at work is to put in 120 hours a week. Now, I’m a workaholic’s workaholic who has been working 50-plus-hour weeks for decades, and I don’t believe that for a minute. That’s no way to live. It’s also no way to work. Managing a happy work-life balance in IT begins with putting life first. A working life doesn’t mean all work, no lifeI know, I know, tech culture, particularly the start-up side of it, is all about putting in macho hours.

1 month ago | spiceworks.com | David Weldon

The rapid pace of change in technology, wide-spread interest in artificial intelligence, and growing demand placed on graduates to ‘deliver’ have combined to make choosing the best college for computer science more important than ever. There are a few schools that always seem to top the lists of best degree programs for IT pros. But with tuition rates skyrocketing at many colleges and universities, some question if they’re worth the investment.