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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
CIO Insight
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20 IT Skills on the Rise
Friday, February 19, 2010
Even though many IT professionals have seen flat to declining pay rates, there are some bright spots in the IT job arena. According to Foote Partners, publishers of the esteemed quarterly IT Skills and Certification Pay Index, there has been a definite demand for SAP and enterprise applications skills over the last six months. Here are the top 20 distinct skills by market value growth over the last six months, according to the most recent index.
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IT Certifications Still Offer an Edge
Friday, February 19, 2010
The quarterly Foote Partners IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index examines in depth how certain skills and certification can affect the pay of IT professionals. Unsurprisingly, the index found that most skills and certifications decreased in value last year.
But as a percentage of the base salary for IT professionals, most types of certifications gave recipients an edge in remuneration. Typically, IT certification holders made 7.46 percent more than average IT workers in the fourth quarter of 2009.
CIO Insight examines how much extra certain types of IT certifications have garnered professionals over the last three years. The percentages are all measured as additional value on top of the base IT salary, as determined by Foote Partners.
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10 Technologies for Driving Revenue in 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Becoming a revenue generator instead of a cost center is the dream of every IT shop.
CIO Insight Research asked almost 170 IT executives which deployed technologies have the best potential for driving revenue generation. Heres what they said.
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5 Books for Understanding the Millennial Generation
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The 80-million strong Millennial generation is going to change the IT landscape in countless ways, whether CIOs like it or not.
Dealing with this unique generation can be difficult given their work habits, interests and deep grounding in technology as a way of life. Luckily, there are a handful of insightful books that help businesses and bosses understand and manage the Millennials.
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10 Steps for Pushing Your Agenda
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Change is hard. Doing what youve always done is easy. Doing something new that requires a change in thinking, changes in procedures, and changes to systems are difficult.
Thats where leadership comes in. Executive coach and former technology executive Mike Hawkins explains how leaders can win support for their priorities and initiatives.
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Demystifying Cloud Computing
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Its tough to tell the difference between true cloud computing and the smoke created by hype and buzz. Heres how to clear the air.
- As CIOs consider new corporate computing options, they often find themselves awash in cloud metaphors thanks to the overwhelming desire to achieve the promise of cloud computing. The potential for cloud computing is compelling. For business, it promises faster access to technology and better align...
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Analytics: Putting Information to Work
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The leaders of the analytics push explain why CIOs struggle to use information to their employers' gain -and how they can avoid the usual trip-ups.
- Tom Davenport admits that analytics is a quot;nerdy quot; topic, but it's also one of the hottest in the IT community today. The IT and management professor at Babson College didn't expect too much of a reaction to his 2007 book, Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning (Harvard Business...
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UniGroup CIO on IT Enabling the Business
Monday, February 8, 2010
Randy Poppell explains how UniGroups IT organization helped the company through the toughest times and is helping the company to accelerate into the upturn.
- Randy Poppell is a rare CIO for one major reason: hes lasted in his current role CIO of St. Louis-based UniGroup for nine years. The IT leader for the $2B transportation and logistics firm, which owns United Van Lines, Mayflower Transit and other subsidiaries, has spent 30 years in the IT industry, ...
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15 Data Center Priorities for 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Applied Research West recently tallied up surveys from over 1,700 organizations of all sizes from around the world for Symantec's annual State of the Data Center report. Unsurprisingly, the biggest priorities within these organizational nerve centers focused on availability and reliability of data, and on cost-saving measures such as virtualization, cloud migration and consolidation.
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IT Trends: 7 Growing Priorities for 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Among the various prognostications of what technologies will be hottest in 2010, one trend is common: that consumer-focused tools will continue to permeate the enterprise.
Witness the latest survey from CompTIA. The IT industry association polled more than 300 IT and business pros in December to get their take on what IT trends will be most prevalent this year.
Heres what they said.
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IT Spending: Better Times Ahead
Monday, February 1, 2010
Forrester Research recently updated its predictions for IT spending in 2010. So far, the outlook looks bright - particularly compared to last year, which saw an 8.9% drop in global IT spending. Forrester reports an expected 8.1% increase in spending globally and 6.5% rise within the U.S.
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APCs New SmartUPS
Thursday, January 28, 2010
APCs introduction of the new SmartUPS line changes the game for UPS protection. These new UPS systems have substantially increased the management reporting from the UPS. More information on predictive failure, battery disconnect/non-charging issues, and integration with tools like InfraStruxure Central, allow organizations to spend less time managing and insure the protection of their UPS. These new systems also focus on lowering costs with improved charging management. Insuring that batteries are not over-charged or overheated means optimal battery life, and less cost to replace batteries that dont meet normal life spans. As a result, the new SmartUPS are an essential upgrade for datacenters and server rooms. Lowering costs, reducing management time, and providing better protection than older UPS products.
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IT Pros: Economy, Job Market Strengthening
Thursday, January 28, 2010
IT employee confidence rose to its highest level in the fourth quarter of 2009 in almost two years, according to the latest survey by IT staffing firm Technisource.
IT workers also expressed much higher confidence in the economy in job availability than in the same period in 2008. Click through to see the full results.
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Server Virtualization for Everyone
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
CDW's Server Virtualization Life Cycle Report compiles results of a survey of nearly 400 IT managers, from companies with 100 or more employees, about server virtualization. The report showed that the vast majority of organizations are in some stage or another of implementing server virtualization, but even the best have room to improve.
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The Big Ifs of IT Leadership
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
A new framework for evaluating your strengths, weaknesses and potential as a corporate leader.
- Most of us recognize that effective leadership is essential to our long-term success. This is true whether were a CIO or entry-level developer. IT leadership is becoming increasingly challenging. Budgets are tighter. Technology changes faster than business requirements. No sooner is the latest...
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