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Companies get off of their clouds
Published in Cloud
Monday, 12 February 2024 11:03

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
Published in News
Friday, 23 June 2023 11:25

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
Published in News
Thursday, 06 April 2023 12:04

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
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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
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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
Published in News
Thursday, 19 May 2022 11:35

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
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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
Published in News
Friday, 21 August 2020 11:05

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
Published in News
Monday, 30 March 2020 11:01

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
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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.