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With approximately 1.5 million students graduating from college this year it’s stiff competition in the job market. This means if you’ve just graduated from college and are looking for work, you will need to work smarter to stand above the crowd and land that dream job.

Tip #1

Start Early:

Find and apply early for internships across the country as having the right internship can help you build a strong personal brand and experiences which enhance your resume.

Tip #2

Get Organized:

Start by building a target list of employers you'd like to work for and do your research. If you're still in school pursuing an internship with one of those targets companies will give you valuable insight and experience.

Tip #3

Build a Digital Footprint:

With technology and social media ingrained into almost every facet of our lives a strong digital footprint can enhance your resume. A good hiring manager will have checked you out online, and if your digital presence is limited to your last college party, you’re already in trouble.

Tip #4

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Before we launched Windows 7, we envisioned what the next version of Windows would need to deliver. We made a bet that the PC landscape and industry would undergo a significant transformation driven by an increase in mobility. That bet underscores the changes we made with Windows 8 – it’s a generational leap forward. We built Windows 8 for a world where touch is a first class interaction model, the same as mouse and keyboard; and where there’s a proliferation of innovative and diverse devices that are highly mobile, always on the go and always connected. Windows 8 was built on the reality that the lines between our work and personal lives have blurred.

We’re only a bit more than seven months into this new, bold approach to computing. The response to Windows 8 has been substantial— from new devices to strong app growth to key enhancements to the OS and apps. We’ve learned from customers on how they are using the product and have received a lot of feedback. We’ve delivered hundreds of updates to the product and to apps. We’re just getting started, and the potential ahead is tremendous.

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This morning, HDS announced a number of new cloud enabling technologies, delivery models and partner programs that enable our customers to extend their existing enterprise IT to embrace cloud solutions.  This approach allows our customers to continue to take advantage of their existing infrastructure, consolidating and virtualizing it if need be, and then leverage one or more cloud-based approaches to extend their IT beyond the walls of their enterprise. In this way, they can  deliver the services and information mobility their stakeholders need, from their own cloud, in their own way.

An exciting new solution is Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) Anywhere-  the industry’s 1st integrated file sync and share designed for the enterprise and built by a single, well respected vendor. This integration-by-design puts HCP Anywhere ahead of the competition in security, ease of implementation, keeping IT in control. HCP Anywhere is:

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As organizations move toward implementing more cloud solutions, they face some important decisions. Data privacy and retention, regulatory and compliance considerations, and security all need to be considered, and may drive the decision to the choice of a private cloud. But then cost, a very important factor and in many cases is the key motivator for considering cloud in the first place, will come into play. Unless the organization has no issue with making the capital investment required to build their own private clouds, they will look seriously at alternatives where they won’t own or manage the infrastructure on which their clouds are built – that is, hosted cloud services.

This of course leaves them with the following alternatives:

1. Work with a provider who can manage a private cloud that resides within the customer’s data center, built on assets owned by the provider
2. Choose a public cloud that charges for services delivered based on usage, allocates resources on demand, and supports a service level agreement (SLA) consistent with the needs of the customer

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In my last post, I talked about how the traditional means of storing, protecting and sharing files are breaking down and hinted at a new approach from Hitachi Data Systems. For now, I’ll refer to this as #CloudAnywhere,  where your own cloud makes data available anywhere it is needed without the need for complicated, cumbersome and costly IT resources at each and every site and for each and every user.. It’s a world where you no longer maintain hundreds of copies of the same file across a myriad of file servers, user devices, archives, backups and content management systems.

#CloudAnywhere is ideal for organizations looking to archive data, backup less data without sacrificing protection, consolidate more data into a smaller footprint, distribute consistent content, perform e-discovery and compliance actions and facilitate the use of the vast ecosystem of applications written for the cloud.

#CloudAnywhere is secure. It provides cloud services capabilities from within your own IT department, avoiding the limitations and risks of typical consumer clouds and turning over control, security and protection to others. This allows you to retain proper stewardship and governance of data and reduce the risk of noncompliance or compromising intellectual property.

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Traditional means of sharing files are breaking down. Email attachments, content management systems, copies on user devices, in backups, and on file servers all lead to inefficient storage and network utilization owing to massive content duplication and high cost for storage, backup, and data management.

But it’s not just file sharing –  the rise of BYOD means users want their work data on multiple devices and getting work data onto a smart phone or tablet would require a user to use file-sharing techniques to get that data where they want it. And this just makes matters worse.

The limitations of the old methods have led to the popularity of consumer cloud-based file sync and share tools like DropBox and Box. How popular are they? IDC estimates the market to be $20 billion by 2015. Venture capitalist investments are funding Dropbox (valued at $4billion), Box (valued at $1.2 billion) and new entrants to the space all the time.

These trends are causing problems for IT as users are generating and sharing more and more copies of data. This exacerbates storage and network inefficiencies and stores them in unsanctioned devices, applications and clouds, putting the data outside the control and governance of corporate IT.

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You’ve heard a lot about the cloud and its advantages. But why all this hype? After all, keeping your data in house, under control, and safe is a high priority for your business. So why take the risk of storing it somewhere else?  It’s a great question.

One of the major drivers businesses are experiencing is the accelerating growth of data and content, much of it unstructured. These assets are valuable to the business–once analyzed, they can reveal intelligence and when applied to business decisions they can make a big difference to the bottom line. But volumes can go beyond the capacity of existing storage infrastructures, posing a challenge to IT managers and their budgets. The capital expenditures needed can “break the bank,” causing organizations to look for less expensive (and capital-intensive) ways to meet growing infrastructure requirements. Even if additional storage capacity was economically viable, it would have to be sized to accommodate maximum usage regardless of how much is used at any given time.

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Today over on the Official Microsoft Blog, Steve Ballmer talks about the new Office and what it means for the company.

Starting today, people can now subscribe to Office as a service via Office.com instead of purchasing Office as a piece of software to install.

Click here for more on the benefits of an Office subscription!

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Last month, we announced that SkyDrive usage had doubled in the last 6 months, building on the general availability of Windows 8. With the growth of Windows 8, we’re seeing more and more people choose SkyDrive as the easiest way to store and share their photos, documents, and other files.

Starting today, we’re bringing even more value to SkyDrive and Xbox customers with a new SkyDrive app for Xbox 360. This means your favorite content is now only one click away, whether you are using the web, your PC, your phone, or now, even your big screen TV.

Dan Somrack, one of our newest Program Managers, authored this post. Dan just joined us from Cornell University earlier this year and he drove the final release details of this project.

The app will be going live later today. You can expect to see it on your Xbox after 10AM PST.

- Mike Torres, Group Program Manager, SkyDrive apps