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Report: Specialized Skill Shortages to Swell IT Salaries
Driving up salaries for workers with the right mix of specialized skills, technology-based industries are expect to continue to face shortages of talent this year, and VARs could be hardest hit, according to market analysis released Jan. 3 by Philadelphia-based Yoh, a provider of outsourcing services. Yoh predicts that the tightest candidate markets will be…
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Credant to Encrypt GSA’s Laptops
Security software maker Credant announced Jan. 3 that it has won a deal to provide full-disk encryption technology for all laptops controlled by the U.S. General Services Administration, which could give the firm a leg-up in negotiations with other federal agencies looking for similar tools. Credant, based in Addison, Texas, said that the GSA awarded…
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HP, Tandberg to Team on Video Conferencing
Hewlett-Packard and Tandberg announced Jan. 3 that they have partnered up to bring users video conference platforms. With the announced alliance, users will be able to use HP’s Halo Collaboration Studios, which simulates face-to-face meetings across long distances, as well as Tandberg conference room and desktop based systems. As part of the agreement, HP, of…
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Amsterdam Mulls the Linux Desktop
Amsterdam has decided to give the Linux desktop and OpenOffice a try. In late December, the city—previously a Microsoft-only operation—announced plans to spend 300,000 Euros (roughly $400,000) on testing Linux and other open-source software in its housing department and in the Zeeburg borough office in 2007. According to the Dutch newspaper Trouw, Amsterdam, along with…
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Tandberg Completes Exabyte Acquisition, Joins Tape Storage Alliance
Digital tape storage maker Tandberg Data finalized its $28 million acquisition of Exabyte Jan. 3 and announced that it has integrated its former competitor’s VXA-2, VXA-172 and VXA-320 products into its tape drive and tape automation portfolio. Due to the Aug. 30, 2006, acquisition of essentially all of Exabyte’s intellectual property, Oslo, Norway-based Tandberg also…
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New Year Finds Nervous IT Workforce
IT worker confidence slid in December, with a growing number of tech professionals anticipating layoffs, according to a report released Jan. 3 by Hudson, a staffing firm based in New York. Decrease in job satisfaction and a substantial rise in expected layoffs prompted a six point decrease in Hudson’s IT professional index from the month…
