Cybersecurity Talent Shortfall Threatens Everyone

WASHINGTON — Official pronouncements from economists that the recession is officially over may have done little to lift the national mood while unemployment remains perilously high. But in one field, cybersecurity, the supply-demand imbalance of the broader labor market is upside down, with government agencies and private-sector firms aggressively recruiting and hiring experts in the…

CIOs Discuss How They Approach Emerging Technology

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — How do enterprise CIOs decide which new technology products and services to adopt? There may not be any one answer or template for all organizations, but a panel of executive IT buyers agreed the decision is rarely simple or quick. “I see a see a lot of pure-play vendors who assume,…

CIOs Predict Modest Increase in 4Q New Hires

CIOs at leading technology companies are planning to increase their headcount in the fourth quarter, but not at a rate that suggests the industry is anywhere near ready for bounds of prodigious proportions. According to a survey of executives by employment staffing and consulting services firm Robert Half International, tech companies will hire new employees…

IT Job Market Continues Steady Recovery

The tech employment market is improving — albeit gradually – according to the latest data cobbled together by TechServe Alliance, a national trade association representing the IT services industry. In July, the IT sector added 9,700 jobs in the U.S., a 1 percent improvement from the same month last year, to a total of 3,875,000…

IBM Merges Hardware, Software Units

IBM has merged its two non-services divisions — hardware and software — into a single business unit under one manager, a move that points to IBM’s intention to offer fully integrated systems. That could have important implications for IT executives weighing whether to adopt an IBM-dominated infrastructure over competitors like Oracle, the database and enterprise…

Trend Micro Warns IT on Social Networking

The popularity of consumer social-networking services like Facebook and Twitter has spilled over into the workplace, bringing potentially dire consequences, warns Trend Micro. As part of its corporate end-user study released Monday, the IT security firm found that the use of social-networking sites in the workplace grew from 19 percent in 2008 to 24 percent…

Gartner Trims IT Spending Forecast

The outlook for IT spending on a global basis in 2010 isn’t looking quite as rosy as research firm Gartner had thought earlier this year. In a revised forecast issued Thursday, Gartner said it expects global IT spending to reach $3.350 trillion, an increase of 3.9 percent compared to 2009’s $3.225 trillion. But just last…

Bing Update for iPhone Adds Social Media Features

Microsoft updated its Bing search client for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad on Tuesday. The upgraded client, Bing 1.2, adds combined status updates for users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts within Bing, according to a post on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bing Community blog. “Now when you search for something using our Bing app, you’ll…

Cloud Services Market Seeing Explosive Growth

Gartner this week confirmed what the rest of the IT industry has known for years: the cloud is the next sure-fire growth market for hardware, software and services providers around the world. In a report released this week, Gartner is now projecting worldwide cloud services revenue will soar to more than $68.3 billion this year,…

Health Care IT Sector Poised for Robust Growth

Businesses selling hardware, software and IT services to the health care sector will be in great fiscal shape for the next four to five years, according to technology consulting and analytics provider Compass Intelligence. The latest data predicts total health care IT revenue will eclipse $73.1 billion this year and grow at a compound annual…