• Skill shortages? Not if you pay or train

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 20 May, 2013 21:48

  Companies in search of workers with the most sought-after IT skills may be better off investing in training programs for current workers than hiring new employees, according to IDC

• Microsoft's $300M Nook investment hasn't paid off -- yet

  By Gregg Keizer | 20 May, 2013 10:14

  Microsoft has gotten next to nothing from its $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble, analysts said, but it may reap some rewards as it prepares to ship smaller tablets.

• Wall Street Beat: Market stokes tech IPOs, as Tableau and Marketo debut

  By Marc Ferranti and Joab Jackson | 17 May, 2013 21:17

  A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of IT may be able to ride the wave.

• IDC: Cloud, mobility exposing limitations of existing networks

  By Brandon Butler | 09 May, 2013 20:39

  The combination of highly virtualised environments inside enterprise networks, along with an explosion of mobile traffic, are exposing the limitations of existing networks, and driving the need for a new era of dynamic and scalable networks of the future, IDC researchers said in a panel discussion at Interop this week.

• Citrix bakes WAN optimization into branch office hardware

  By Jon Gold | 07 May, 2013 16:27

  Citrix today announced new models in its CloudBridge line of branch repeater hardware, along with a software update to Version 7.0, which adds WAN optimization capability and direct support for public cloud services.

• What IBM's x86 exit may mean for rivals

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 19 April, 2013 18:32

  IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market.

• 12 hybrid security products to watch

  By Christine Burns | 11 February, 2013 06:19

  Securing a hybrid cloud is not the same thing as deploying hybrid security products.

• Chicago CIO's IT revival plan includes the cloud

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 14 January, 2013 11:04

  Chicago this month disclosed that it plans to use Microsoft's cloud services to deliver email and desktop applications to some 30,000 employees, part of a significant effort to improve the city's IT operations.

• 2012: The year Cloud computing took a bite out of IT

  By Eric Knorr | 24 December, 2012 11:17

  As new public cloud plays leap in and the private cloud slowly evolves, we're on the brink of a shift to cloud computing for critical business workloads

• Managing IT contractors presents unique challenges

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 03 December, 2012 11:17

  Hiring contract tech workers is a quick, easy way to staff up a project or offload mundane tasks -- but managing them can be ticklish.

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