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Will IBM Be Knight Capital's White Knight?After the software glitch that resulted in a $440 million trading loss, Knight Capital Group tapped IBM for help in assessing the financial firm’s existing software and systems development practices. Will IBM be Knight Capital's white knight and help prevent these problems from occurring again? | 
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DevOps Is More than a Marketing OpportunityMany industry experts are calling DevOps a "cultural and professional movement." Perhaps people need to spend a little less time hyping the marketing opportunity for DevOps and a lot more time putting the principles to work. | 
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How Batman Uses DevOps to Fight Crime The latest Batman movie highlights the importance of software and has Bruce Wayne using DevOps to fight crime. Software can clearly be used for good or for evil, and so it is with regards to software practices. |
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US Air Force Solicits Concepts for CyberwarfareThe US Air Force has issued a request for concept papers focused on cyberspace warfare attack technologies. With a potential total value of the contracts at $10 million USD, this is a sizable shift from talking about cyberdefense to cyberattacks. | 
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How You and DevOps Can Help Restore U.S. Financial Stability The SEC wants your input on how to prevent errors in mission-critical systems, “including those that are used to automatically generate and route orders, match trades, confirm transactions, and disseminate data.” It's time for the agency to take a lesson from DevOps. |
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There's No Such Thing as a Freemium LunchThe freemium business model—in which some users use the product for free, and others use it for a fee—can be appealing. To succeed with the freemium model, you must first acknowledge that a revenue plan is not a business plan and then decide if it makes sense for your bottom line. | 
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How DevOps Could Have Benefited the Facebook IPOAs Facebook's IPO debacle shows, the lack of a robust software development process can result in outages and impact large-scale financial systems. Bob Aiello explains how DevOps—which provides the structure to rapidly build, package, and deploy applications—could have minimized Facebook's damages. |
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IT Management and Software Dominate Most Hated Professions—Why?Of the top ten most hated jobs in the US, more come from the computer and software fields than anywhere else. What's making workers so unhappy in these positions while QA engineers sit atop the list of having the happiest job in the US? | 
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