Recession news from FierceCIO

There's some good news out there on the IT job market, and it's about time. January 2010 was one of the best month-to-month gains since the recession took hold in late 2008, according to the... Read more...

There have been some upbeat forecasts from CompTIA, Forrester Research and others about IT's recovery. Forrester has been predicting 6.6 percent growth this year, and ComptTIA has shown a spike in... Read more...

The recession has taken its toll on the operation of data centers. A new survey of IT executives acknowledges that they have made significant cutbacks in this business unit and may be looking for... Read more...

Your IT budget is looking flat. In fact, it is looking downright deflated. A new Gartner report found that the average 2010 IT budget is likely to look like it's still 2005, with little, if any... Read more...

A new survey by the Corporate Executive Board finds that IT workers, like many other employees, are not putting forth the extra effort at work--a clear sign that something is wrong on the job. The... Read more...

As bad as 2009 was for employment in the United States, CIO job openings picked up in the last half of 2009 with positive signs for more good news in 2010. "The bottom was reached in the first... Read more...

It's looking pretty rosy on the other side of the holiday season. A new survey by CDW IT Monitor finds that nearly half of corporate IT decision makers surveyed predict that budgets will increase in... Read more...

The recession has caused many firms to make significant cuts in their IT departments--decisions made out of economic necessity but ones that may come back to haunt those businesses. A survey by... Read more...

IT will be at the center of the recovery next year and will be relied upon by more than half of all CEOs recently surveyed by Gartner. That's good news for IT workers everywhere and for those looking... Read more...

The demand for H-1B visas has been accelerating. After a quiet year that ended on Sept. 30, 2009, when companies did not exhaust the number of available visas, the landscape has changed in just two... Read more...