Companies get off of their clouds
Firms ditch online data for old-school servers
It is starting to look like the cloud bubble is bursting as more firms return to on-site data centres.
Accenture worried about IT spending
Revenue forecast down
IT outsourcer Accenture is worried about falling IT spending after showing a quarterly revenue forecast below what the cocaine nose-jobs of Wall Street expected.
IT spending set to increase
Gartner groups latest figures
Number crunchers at analyst outfit Gartner have had an extra crunch and concluded that worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.6 trillion in 2023, an increase of 5.5 per cent from 2022.
Companies that fire IT staff are going to suffer in the long term
While those who hire them are going to do well
Dumb companies run by corporate geniuses who think they can save money by firing their IT staff to prop up their bottom lines are headed towards future doom.
Global IT skills shortage speeding up digitalisation
Mind the gap
The global skills shortage combined with an ageing workforce and more workers retiring is accelerating digitisation of plant operations in the industrial sector, a new report from leading independent research and advisory firm Verdantix shows.
Ukraine’s IT sector going great guns
Still coding when half your team have to dodge artillery and shoot Russians
Ukraine’s IT sector did better than last year despite Russia’s invasion of the country.
Russian IT workers find themselves sanctioned
Happens when your workers are modern internationalists but your politicians are old fashioned imperialists
Thanks to the internet modern Russian IT workers have been making a rather good living working online for European and US IT companies, but now that has come crashing to a halt.
There's a severe digital skills gap in UK
Mind the Gap
The latest research by Hays Learning found employers have struggled to fill one third of vacancies due to a lack of digital competency.
How a virus finally killed IT
Robert X. Cringely mutters
IT pundit Robert Cringely (pictured) thinks that Information Technology which replaced Management Information Systems is finally being killed off by COVID-19.
Roman emperor deaths follow the same pattern as IT failure
Statistically speaking Apple gear is Caligula without the sex
Interdisciplinary research by Dr. Joseph Saleh, an Aerospace Engineer from the Georgia Institute of Technology has revealed a statistical connection between Roman emperors and IT gear.