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Outsourced Tech Jobs Returning to the U.S. [Infographic]
By Klint Finley / June 9, 2011 1:00 PM / 0 Comments

We've covered the increased demand for IT professionals here recently and outlined which skills are in highest demand. Now Modis, an IT staffing firm, has released some additional data

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IT Poll: How Do You Feel About Your Job Skills?
By Klint Finley / May 17, 2011 11:00 AM / 0 Comments

Our posts on trends shaping the IT job market and the best U.S. cities for finding IT jobs were quite popular. While demand for tech workers is strong even

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How Service Providers Can Help Consolidate IT Expenses
By Klint Finley / May 12, 2011 12:35 PM / 0 Comments

CTOs know that today, when it comes to IT, more is no longer better. IT departments in every industry are faced with static or shrinking budgets and the mounting

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7 Surprising Trends That Show What Tech Skills You Need to Succeed
By Klint Finley / May 11, 2011 10:30 AM / 0 Comments

IT salaries are up after a two year decline, according to CIO.com. That's good news, considering the level of dissatisfaction IT professionals are experiencing. Meanwhile, hiring is up as

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The First Wave of IT Consumerization: 1978
By Klint Finley / April 13, 2011 2:30 PM / 4 Comments

I recently purchased a copy of an issue of the defunct popular science magazine OMNI from 1978 - three years before I was born. In addition to a lengthy

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The Tyranny of Consumerization and the Weapon That is the iPad - Not!
By Alex Williams / March 8, 2011 8:55 PM / 6 Comments

Stories about the plight of IT remind me of commercials that feature the haggard, overextended information worker who really could manage the work if he had eight minds working for

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Google Now Offering Google Apps Certification
By Klint Finley / February 23, 2011 1:15 PM / 3 Comments

Google announced the Google Apps Certification Program today. The program will certify IT professionals who have demonstrated the ability to sell, deploy, develop and support Google Apps. The first

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Forrester: Is IT Investment Hurting US Job Growth?
By Klint Finley / February 18, 2011 4:00 PM / 7 Comments

Forrester released today a report called Caution: IT Investment May Be Hurting US Job Growth. The report's authors - Andrew Bartels, Christopher Mines and Sarah Musto - note that

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Putting Information on the Balance Sheet
By Klint Finley / February 11, 2011 12:00 PM / 0 Comments

RedMonk's James Governor and EMC VP of Global Marketing Chuck Hollis are calling for enterprises to put information on the balance sheet. In other words, start considering useful information

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IT Support Requests Rise Even As Companies Cut Help Desk Spending
By Klint Finley / January 6, 2011 10:18 AM / 2 Comments

According to the 2010 Practices & Salary Report from HDI, an IT service and technical support membership association, 67% of the IT help desks surveyed reported an increased number

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6 Ways to be a Better IT Manager
By Klint Finley / January 4, 2011 2:30 PM / 1 Comments

Curtis Franklin Jr. has written a post for Enterprise Efficiency on becoming a better IT manager. Specifically, Franklin's advice is on how to manage IT teams - not contracts

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The Most Important Things Customers, Vendors and Consultants Need to Do to Reduce IT Project Failure
By Klint Finley / December 22, 2010 6:11 PM / 1 Comments

We talked to Michael Krigsman, the CEO of Asuret and writer of the IT Project Failures blog, about why IT projects fail and what can be done about it.

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10 Things You Should Know Before Working in IT
By Klint Finley / December 13, 2010 6:00 PM / 9 Comments

Considering a job in IT? We've covered some of the reasons that perhaps you shouldn't and what could be done about them. But there are plenty of good reasons

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IT Poll: Do You Find User Conferences Helpful?
By Klint Finley / December 13, 2010 12:30 PM / 4 Comments

Last week ReadWriteEnterprise editor Alex Williams and I attended Salesforce.com's annual user conference Dreamforce. And we've got more coming up, like Lotusphere and SAPPHIRE NOW. For journalists, these events

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BMC and Salesforce.com Announce RemedyForce
By Klint Finley / December 8, 2010 7:55 AM / 1 Comments

BMC and Salesforce.com announced a new joint venture today: RemedyForce - a hosted IT management system based on BMC's popular Remedy product and the Force.com platform. In an announcement

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IT Workers Still Looking to Jump Ship, Even In Rough Job Market
By Klint Finley / October 8, 2010 7:23 AM / 2 Comments

A Computerworld survey confirms what a Harris Interactive survey found in July: about 36% of IT workers are looking for a new job. Harris found 37%. Approximately 25% of

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What Can IT Do To Stimulate the Job Market?
By Klint Finley / September 27, 2010 8:05 AM / 6 Comments

Last week I revisited some concerns about cloud computing putting IT staff out of work. This week I want to look at the broader issue of technology displacing workers

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IT Disasters: What Was Your Biggest Screw-Up?
By Klint Finley / September 13, 2010 10:30 AM / 14 Comments

If you've been in IT long enough, chances are you've done something you really regret. Wipe the boss's hard drive? Delete an important backup? Preventing error should be IT's

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How to Improve IT Worker Morale
By Klint Finley / August 23, 2010 7:30 AM / 18 Comments

IT job satisfaction is at an all time low, and has been since January according to a CEB survey cited by ComputerWorld. We recently reported that about 1/3 of

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Study: Over 1/3 of IT Workers Ready to Jump Ship
By Klint Finley / July 23, 2010 1:30 PM / 4 Comments

According to the IT Employee Confidence Index, a survey conducted by Harris Interactive and commissioned by IT staffing company Technisource, IT workers are more confident in the economy than

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Apps.gov Gives Cloud Computing a Slice of the $75 Billion IT Pie
By Steven Walling / September 15, 2009 1:37 PM / 15 Comments

The government cloud computing service rumored since late July is here, and companies are jumping at the chance to join Apps.gov, an "online storefront" for cloud services and applications pre-approved

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Get a Handle on Google Apps with LTech's Power Panel
By Steven Walling / September 11, 2009 12:12 PM / 12 Comments

LTech, an enterprise partner of Google, has released a new control panel for Google Apps to make managing the suite easier for IT. In addition to general cloud services LTech

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OpSource Launches an Enterprise Cloud on Amazon's Coattails
By Steven Walling / August 28, 2009 10:29 AM / 2 Comments

Just days after Amazon launched its Virtual Private Cloud to try and attract enterprises to EC2, OpSource has announced what it's calling "the first true enterprise cloud." OpSource is essentially

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Ten Ways to Celebrate Sysadmin Day
By Steven Walling / July 31, 2009 9:40 AM / 17 Comments

Every year since the turn of the century, the last Friday in July has been Sysadmin Appreciation Day. If you're an IT worker, we already know how you'll be celebrating

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The New Zoho CRM Aims to Undercut Salesforce.com
By Steven Walling / July 21, 2009 8:58 AM / 30 Comments

With improvements to email integration and a new marketing campaign, SaaS productivity vendor Zoho is aiming its sights openly at Salesforce.com, the dominant Web-based CRM today. The "Zwitch to Zoho"

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