Michelle Obama: For a Win-win, Women Need to “Negotiate Hard”

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When U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama was offered her first job after law school, it didn’t even occur to her to negotiate for a higher salary, she said in a recent interview in Parade magazine.

“Now I realize that that’s one of the challenges that we have as women: We don’t negotiate for ourselves,” she said. “We don’t negotiate hard.”

TED: Renata Salecl: Our unhealthy obsession with choice - Renata Salecl (2013)

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We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy that we are perhaps making the wrong ones. But philosopher Renata Salecl asks: Could individual choices be distracting us from something bigger—our power as social thinkers? A bold call for us to stop taking personal choice so seriously and focus on the choices we're making collectively.

TED: Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future - Nicholas Negroponte (2014)

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MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are ubiquitous today. And he leaves you with one last (absurd? brilliant?) prediction for the coming 30 years.

Do Noncompete Agreements Stand in the Way of Win-win Deals?

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If you’re looking to get more leverage out of your next job negotiation, the noncompete agreement that may very well be tucked inside your employment contract could provide an opportunity to just that.

Previously limited to the domain of corporate trade secrets, noncompete agreements have cropped up in a wide array of fields in recent years, from hairstyling to sales to yoga instruction.

Smart software defined data centers demand optimized storage

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When IT professionals talk about software defined data centers, the emphasis is typically on virtual servers — how they’re created, provisioned and maintained. But a truly smart software defined data center should be optimized as comprehensively as possible, across all resources. And among those, one of the most critical is storage.

Answering the call for a new generation of systems

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The only constant in life is change, as the saying goes. We’ve seen this vividly in the technology industry in recent years with not one, but two major shifts: big data and cloud. The first drives a new set of workloads with challenging demands placed on the servers, and the second, a new consumption model for how to utilize those servers. Combined, these shifts place a broad set of new requirements on IT infrastructures.

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