Deb Perelman

IT professionals are bound to feel the effects of the credit crisis sooner or later, whether or not the U.S. economy experiences a recession. CIOs may well be reluctant to cut jobs, but they are still going to have to work with their chief financial officers to find places that expenses can be cut. However, […]

Typically, conversations about sales or acquisitions at companies take plae behind closed door. The organizations themselves are not at liberty to discuss their dealings, and even when they are, fear of unnecessarily alarming their employees–“Today we talked about closing overlapping divisions and laying off hundreds, but I’m sure it’s not going to be in the […]

At a time when other tech companies are scaling back on research labs, Microsoft announced Monday that it would be opening its sixth. With no accidental proximity to both Harvard and MIT, the new Microsoft research lab will be located in Cambridge, Mass. not far from where founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen launched their […]

Through its Share user group and ZNextGen young programmers organization, IBM has been working to make high school students more aware of the existence of mainframe systems and the career opportunities therein. While recruiting at the college level is not new to IBM, recruiting teenagers is a new approach embraced after the company identified what […]

Sure, Microsoft hasn’t been very successful in trying to buy Yahoo, but it doesn’t mean they can’t try for their savviest assets: their employees. In an email leaked to Silicon Alley Insider, readers get a view of what it would be like to try to be so valuable to the worlds biggest software maker, they […]

As senior business and IT leaders, CIOs were told they should proactive in helping their organizations ride through economic downturns at Forrester’s Jan. 31 teleconference on preparing for a recession. “We’re expecting a slight slowdown in the economy, but not a recession,” said Andrew Bartels, vice president and principle analyst for Forrester. However, the risk […]

In 2004, Nicholas Carr created a few waves–drawing the ire of IT professionals and striking fear into the heart of CEOs and CFOs–when he wrote the book “Does IT Matter?” In it, he reasons that IT had become a commodity, offering companies little strategic advantage because as soon as one company adopts a new technology, […]

Suggesting that the credit sector’s financial woes are creeping up on technology professionals, two new reports highlight waning IT confidence and sliding IT wages in recent months. Triggered by lower hiring expectations and financial concerns, IT worker confidence declined for the fourth consecutive month in January. The confidence index, as measured by Hudson, a recruiting […]

Most people in this day and age agree that going to college is a good thing, but the practical, fiscal value of a college education has long been harder to pin down. Can you earn money with an English degree? Do you really set yourself back by only going to a two-year school? Didn’t Bill […]

As predictions of a U.S. recession have gone from murmurs to shouts since the beginning of 2008, one recurring comment from analysts has been that this economic slowdown will be different from the dot-com bust. “In the early 2000s when the bubble burst, it was a much more tech-driven recession and this one is not,” […]

Since World War II, the United States has been the main driver of the global STEM economy, but a new study warns that this is no longer the case. China has replaced the United States as the leader in what the study, conducted by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, calls Technological Standing, or […]

Is Your IT Job Safe? Is Your IT Job Safe? – Networking Skills As the IT department has become increasingly responsible for supporting a remote workforce through BlackBerrys, Treos and other smart phones, the need for networking skills has become non-negotiable. “Networking skills had been No. 2 in previous hiring index results and recently took […]