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Staff with IT, financial acumen hard to find

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:01:39 -0400

As IT organizations work to better align themselves with the business, CIOs are finding that they need IT staff with a strong mix of financial and technical skills. They are also finding that professionals with IT and financial acumen are hard to find. One solution is teaching existing staff the skills that they will need, including ITIL service management, best practices, customer relationship management, financial management and portfolio analysis. Another solution is finding creative ways to bring IT and business people together.

Read more about the difficulty in finding the right IT/finance mix:
- read the article at ComputerWorld

Demand for IT talent overwhelms supply

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:01:39 -0500

Keeping pace with technology trends, satisfying business goals and committing to innovation requires top-notch IT talent, but demand is outstripping supply. To find qualified IT candidates, CIOs have to look longer and harder than ever before. And because of the dearth of qualified candidates, IT professionals hold all the cards, requesting--and receiving--higher salaries and more perks. CIOs don't have much choice but to meet those demands if they want to draw top-quality talent. And the demand shows no sign of abating, especially for candidates with expertise in cutting-edge technologies and experience handling crisis situations.

Read more about the dearth of qualified IT candidates:
- read the article at ComputerWorld

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- and this on attracting good candidates

Patch Tuesday hits a glitch

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:01:39 -0400

Microsoft is experiencing some difficulty getting this month's Patch Tuesday fixes out to clients, due to some "network issues" on its Update platform. More than a few of the whopping 26 patches released will fix critical issues within the .Net, Windows and Office environments. The vendor said it hoped to have the Update glitch fixed by late yesterday so that enterprises could quickly get going on fixing the vulnerabilities and said that users could manually download the patches by clicking on links in Microsoft's Security Bulletin pages. And, by the way, this month's load of patches puts Microsoft way past its record-setting number of patches released in 2002.

For more on the patch Update issue:
- get the news at InfoWorld