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Survey: Organizations holding back on cloud adoption due to security concerns

Fears that cloud computing does not offer adequate security for sensitive data is causing corporate customers to hesitate in adopting cloud services. Despite the current hype surrounding cloud

Times are tough: Get used to it

By now you know we're in a recession, and we've been in one for a year. That's probably not really news to most people in business who have been seeing customers drop out, receipts drop down, budgets

CIOs face a tough new year

Booz & Co., a leading management consulting company, is predicting that CIOs will be less powerful as the economic climate gets tougher for their companies. In order to retain their leadership

Domain registration SCAM derailed

A federal judge has stopped a Toronto company from continuing to deceptively pose as a domain name registrar and sending bogus bills to thousands of U.S. small businesses and nonprofit organizations

Why women leave tech careers

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy in New York, said her research shows women are excelling in science, engineering and technology. But she said many women

IT workers would take pay cut to telecommute

A new survey by Dice Holding has found that IT workers don't like commuting and in fact, 37 percent would be willing to take up to a 10 percent pay cut to work from home full time. With the high cost

Farm workers vs IT workers on H-1B visas

Legislation to make it easier for foreign high tech workers to stay in the U.S. ran into a bit of a buzz saw last week from one lawmaker who wants the same kind of equity for immigrants further down

How to get the CFO to buy into an IT project

How does a CIO get approval for new technology projects in tight budgetary times? Greg Baker, the CFO of technology provider Logicalis, said the issue is not always money, but the ability of the CIO

Questions to ask IT job candidates

Yuri Aguiar, senior partner and chief technology officer at Ogilvy & Mather, a global advertising agency, says his search for top job candidates always includes two questions: What decisions have

Does a CIO need to be a technocrat?

The times, they are a changin'. CIOs once needed a high level of technical expertise to succeed. Today, CIOs certainly must still have a solid foundation of IT knowledge, including an understanding