The emergence of ‘data lakes’ has been all over the tech press over the last six months. As the interest in big data methods gains traction, it’s a concept data and analytics professionals need to be able to accurately explain to customers, with many non_IT specialists unsure about what the term really means. The person who coined the term, Pentaho CIO James Dixon, compare...

The higher up the IT career ladder you climb, the more likely it is you’ll be going for positions in further flung locations. Gone are the days of flying out to meet potential employers in person – these days the odds are you’ll be put through your paces via a Skype or Google Hangout video interview, especially at earlier stages of the process. It’s important to remember t...