Google has made $100,000 work of online courses in data analytics, design, and other tech skills for their workers free of charge. Announced last week,…
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Observability data problems
By Dave Sobel on May 6, 2022
From New Stack: According to ESG, 71% of companies believe their observability data (metrics, logs, traces) is growing at a concerning rate — yet outcomes…
Concerning SMB jobs data
By Dave Sobel on May 5, 2022
Some critical small business data from ADP. While the US private sector created nearly 250,000 new jobs last month, employers with fewer than 50 workers…
Is the idea of “fail fast” not in vogue anymore?
By Dave Sobel on May 4, 2022
Some interesting dynamics in digital. I am quoting from Tech Republic. In 2020, more than one-third of companies (36%) expected digital to account for 75%…
Tape backup.. on the rise?
By Dave Sobel on May 3, 2022
In “of course, that’s still around” news, it was a record year for tape storage sales. Yes, old-school tape backup. According to an LTO sales report using…
Paying out ransomware… when you didn’t have to
By Dave Sobel on April 29, 2022
The State of Ransomware Report from Sophos -- just over a quarter of ransomware victims that paid off their attackers, even though they have other means of…
Meeting effectiveness, measured
By Dave Sobel on April 28, 2022
How about some analysis of meeting effectiveness? Startup Read released a study after measuring more than 3 million virtual meeting minutes, and here’s what they…
The e-commerce and inflation link
By Dave Sobel on April 26, 2022
I spotted this article about the link between e-commerce and inflation in Axios. Prices are no longer static – the idea of previous “menu costs”…
Women in tech on the rise, says Deloitte
By Dave Sobel on April 26, 2022
Deloitte Global, with some diversity data – predicting that there will be nearly 33% overall female representation in large global tech firms, on average, in…
Actionable lessons for leaders in the world of work
By Dave Sobel on April 22, 2022
Only talking about back to work once this week – and it’s to check on the data. More than a third of knowledge workers (34%)…