Yes, information technology professionals, like everyone else, feel more connected to other people thanks for smartphones, instant messaging and other immediate communication tools. Still, less urgent communications – such as e-mail and face-to-face conversations – are the preferred form of com... (1320 more chars)
Attendees at AIT Global’s GreenTech conference, which was held last week on the Brooklyn campus of NYU-Polytechnic, generally came away with six points about Green IT.
No. 1. There’s a big problem out there. There’s too much equipment, generating too much heat, in too little space... (2578 more chars)
Gartner recently released some surprising news about service-oriented architecture adoption.
While the majority of large organizations are moving ahead with SOA, the IT research company said, a growing number are holding off plans to deploy the software development framework, which allows comp... (1433 more chars)
Some good news for IT staffers. Some not-so-good news for CIOs searching for talent – especially those looking for Web developers, top programmers, and help desk staffers.
According to a just released report from IT staffing firm Robert Half Technology, IT unemployment remains low relati... (1748 more chars)
Gartner, the market research company, just came out with its list of the top 10 strategic technologies for 2009. On the list:
Virtualization. Not just server virtualization, which allows different operating systems to run on a server simultaneously, but also storage virtualization (which ... (4899 more chars)
Harvard Business Publishing just published the following statistic on social networking:
“25% of Internet users in the U.S. spend time on social networking sites, according to the Conference Board's Consumer Internet Barometer, and about half of them visit these sites multiple times per... (194 more chars)
