Tag: IT

  • IT Crunch Factor Has Bite

    IT Crunch Factor Has Bite

    Eric Lundquist

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    A lot of technology stories use the word “crunch.” Usually the crunch is a “coming crunch,” as in an expected shortage of IT workers, a financing crunch, or a crunch between user expectations (such as video and television on the Web) and the network’s ability to actually deliver the service. It seems there is a… Read more

  • In Past Decade, IT Brought a $2 Trillion Economic Boost, Report Shows

    In Past Decade, IT Brought a $2 Trillion Economic Boost, Report Shows

    Deborah Perelman

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    IT added $2 trillion to the U.S. economy in the past decade, according to a report released Mar. 13 by the Washington, D.C.-based Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a technology-promoting public policy think tank. The report, Digital Prosperity: Understanding the Economic Benefits of the Information Technology Revolution, found that the economic transformation resulting from IT… Read more

  • NextPhase, Forval Offer Managed IT Package for SMBs

    NextPhase, Forval Offer Managed IT Package for SMBs

    Patrick Hoffman

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    NextPhase Wireless announced March 7 that it has partnered with Forval International to deliver ElipServices, a managed IT services package designed for small and midsize businesses. ElipServices combines Forval’s managed IT services package with NextPhase Wireless’ broadband wireless Internet access offerings. The package includes security, disaster recovery, network performance and consolidated communication capabilities. For advice… Read more

  • SAP Skills Pay Off Big for IT Pros

    SAP Skills Pay Off Big for IT Pros

    Deborah Perelman

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    Pay for non-certified IT skills grew 8 percent in 2006, while pay for certified skills showed flat growth, according to the most recent edition of the Hot Technical Skills and Certification Pay Index released Feb. 12 by New Canaan, Conn., IT workforce research firm Foote Partners. “Though there was an increase in certified pay in… Read more

  • Report: IT Service Jobs to Take Biggest Offshoring Hit

    Report: IT Service Jobs to Take Biggest Offshoring Hit

    Deborah Perelman

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    While the loss of service jobs to offshoring in the near future will be modest, metropolitan areas with large concentrations of IT and back-office jobs will be harder hit, finds a report released Feb. 12 by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based independent research group. Noting that public fervor and coverage of offshoring has noticeably died… Read more

  • Cyber-Security Czar Calls on IT Industry for Help

    Cyber-Security Czar Calls on IT Industry for Help

    Matt Hines

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    SAN FRANCISCO—The United States government is better suited than ever to defend the nation’s computing and communications networks, but federal watchdogs will need private industry to lend a hand to keep attackers at bay, according to the first-ever federal cyber-security czar. Addressing a crowded room of attendees at the ongoing RSA Security Conference here on… Read more