Tag: IT
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Traditional IT Jobs Transformed As Businesses Outsource
While the July U.S. Department of Labor employment report was greeted with relief by many who saw the addition of 117,000 jobs as a big plus that could indicate the job market is finally moving again, employment expert David Foote, CEO of Foote Partners had another take on the news. “The idea that the July… Read more
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Worried IT Professionals Pose Risk to Data
Categories: SecurityWorried IT Professionals Pose Risk to Data Nearly 40 percent of IT professionals believe that senior management doesn’t really know or understand how much data information professionals can access within their organizations. No Title Over 78 percent of respondents reported that they’d be able to take sensitive information with them if they lost their jobs.… Read more
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IT Job Training to Tackle the Skills Gap
For an industry with such a strong hand in shaping our futures, IT often has fallen short in one important area: training people for tech careers. It’s not that there isn’t any training. Plenty of vendors, channel companies and third parties offer quality IT training, but curricula typically are designed for people already in the… Read more
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Fastest-Growing Vertical in IT? Healthcare
Health care is becoming the fastest-growing vertical for U.S. businesses, with (IAAS) (infrastructure as a service) leading the way, according to a new report by research firm In-Stat. IT spending in health care will grow 29 percent from 2010 to 2015, the company reports. "The health care vertical segment, across all sizes of business, and… Read more
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IT Customers Push Cloud Standards
The newly formed Open Data Center Alliance is using an array of usage models to weld cloud-using customers into a force that prevents vendor lock. At the same time, the group is promoting secure movement of virtual workloads from one provider to another. The organization is made up of more than 200 members including JPMorgan… Read more
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Opportunities Abundant Despite Turbulent IT Job Market
A sudden and unexpected burst in private-sector downsizing pushed the number of announced job cuts to a 16-month high of 66,414 in July, according the latest report on downsizing activity released this week by outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Similarly depressing figures regarding the U.S. job market have made headlines for the past few… Read more