Sharon Gaudin

The increasing costs of offshoring IT work to India will have many U.S. companies checking out alternative low-cost, skilled labor sources like China and The Philippines — as early as later this year, according to industry analysts. Salary levels for IT workers in India have gone up 10 percent to 15 percent just over a […]

With 68 firewalls and seven gigs a day of security reports to wade through, the senior network administrator of a $1.8 billion holding company was in over his head when it came to knowing what was happening on his network. His firewall logs alone were stacked so deep that it easily took him eight hours […]

Now that jobs aren’t as scarce as they were just a few years ago, a lot of workers are sitting back and assessing just how happy they are in their current positions. And a big part of their decision will center around whether they have a balance between their work lives and their home lives. […]

With the IT industry on the upswing, budgets are growing again, employees are being hired and upgrades are being planned. This all means IT managers have a new host of pressures on them. And most of the managers dealing with all of this have had very little real management training. That could be making a […]

After years of great expectations that repeatedly were met with slow growth, some industry observers say this finally may be the year that IT managers not only learn what IT Service Management (ITSM) is all about, but also start putting it into practice. While ITSM has been around for more than a decade, it’s failed […]

IT professionals on the job hunt should be looking at the first ”workers’ market” to come around in several years, especially if they’re project managers or have open source experience. Last year’s growth in the IT job market is spilling over into the new year, leaving many industry analysts optimistic that increased budgets and infrastructure […]

Industry observers are expecting a hot IT job market this year with companies clamoring to hire experienced tech professionals with several stand-out skill sets. See Workers in Driver’s Seat in 2006 Job Market. ”There’s going to be fantastic opportunities for people who heeded the warnings about diversifying their skill sets and understanding the business,” says […]

An IT manager knows he needs to archive his company’s email communications, but he’s working with a tight staff and an even tighter budget. Thinking he’s found a great work-around, he lets his weekly data backups take care of the job. The problem is his data isn’t properly archived, so five years from now when […]

Getting your bachelor’s degree before entering the information security job market? Don’t expect to get paid more than a high school graduate. If you’re working on a master’s or doctorate degree, however, you can expect your salary to take a jump. This comes from a new report out of the SANS Institute. The 2005 Information […]

Thousands are scrambling to install Microsoft’s patch for the critical .WMF vulnerability as more than 100 exploits act as a channel of attack for spyware, Trojans and adware. Microsoft, veering from its monthly patch release schedule, issued the patch for the Windows metafile (.WMF) on Thursday. An advisory coming out of Redmond said the software […]