Thursday’s IT Research Round Up

Workplace Communication will Favor Real-Time Tools Email may soon become the new snail mail, a new Robert Half Technology survey suggests. More than half of CIOs interviewed recently said real-time workplace communication tools will surpass traditional email in popularity within the next five years. CIOs were asked, “In the next five years, do you think…

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…

Cloud Computing: Security and Privacy Still Concerns

A majority of executives polled by Deloitte (61%) believe Cloud computing will be a transformative technology in the industry and can drive financial benefits, or at least be useful for certain kinds of enterprise services. The executives were polled recently during the Deloitte webcast, “Cloud Computing in the Enterprise: Not If, But When and How?”…