IT organizations are budgeting to give employees a small pay increase in 2010 according to a recent report.
Almost half of all IT organizations are understaffed; if or when IT spending comes back, shops may have to scramble to fill these vacancies.
Management salaries hold up against the economic storm as bonuses plunge
If you're looking for a full-time foothold in troubled economic times, part-time work -- particularly in project management -- may be a good start.
The overwhelming majority of CIOs don't plan to make any changes to their staffing levels, but salaries are falling across the board.
Fully 83 percent of IT chiefs expect to maintain their staffing levels. Among those planning staff reductions, most cite IT budget cuts as the culprit.
Green savings can be substantial. The trick, as one firm found, is to have all employees on board.
In a tough economic climate, IT organizations will look to virtualization to reduce TCO, slash their energy costs, and keep up with competitors
Along with IT pay cuts, there's a bona-fide IT spending counter-trend, analysts say, but who will benefit?
Some industry analysts expect the economic downturn to result in a net gain for outsourcers.
Non-traditional players -- such as Thailand, Egypt, and South Africa -- have emerged as offshore contenders.
With as much as two-thirds of the average IT budget devoted to fixed costs, trimming expenses is difficult.
When will IT budgets feel the effects of the ongoing economic crisis?
Forrester says IT security is in a "renaissance period"
In a jittery economic climate, companies seem to be hedging their bets when it comes to hiring new IT workers.
Visionary companies will push project and portfolio management from the top down to develop basic management skills at all levels
With leading economic indicators sagging, you'd think the hiring outlook would be similarly bleak. Strangely enough, it may not be
By now, IT and its line-of-business customers should have perfected the art of service level management. The opposite is the case, however.
Salary growth is flat, and IT hiring is primarily limited to plugging gaps. Shops are cutting back on -- or eliminating -- discretionary spending, too.
The data center impact of the new POWER 575 systems that IBM announced last month could be nothing short of radical