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IT Staffing – CIOs Finally Ready to Start Hiring Again

June 11, 2010/0 Comments/in IT Consultant, IT Consulting, IT Department, IT Field, IT Hiring, IT Industry, IT Job Growth, IT Job News, IT Jobs, IT project manager, IT Projects, IT Staffing, IT talent, IT Workers/by admin

After years of penny pinching and putting off key software and hardware implementations, IT executives now say they’re ready to start hiring again. It was the worst of times these past three, four years and IT workers suffered as much as more as most. While companies across all industries were busy pink-slipping millions of workers, […]

IT Security – Gartner: IT security spending to remain steady, but not a top CIO priority

June 10, 2010/0 Comments/in Information Security, Information Technology, Information Technology Field, IT, IT Budgets, IT Spending, Uncategorized/by admin

A top research firm predicts that IT security spending will remain steady through 2011 with identity management as the top focus, but also suggests that CIOs still don’t rank security projects among their high-priority initiatives. Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. will announce Thursday that during the next 12 months, it expects that enterprises will spend approximately […]

IT Staffing – CIOs Finally Ready to Start Hiring Again

IT Security – Gartner: IT security spending to remain steady, but not a top CIO priority

June 10, 2010/0 Comments/in Information Security, Information Technology, Information Technology Field, IT, IT Budgets, IT Spending, Uncategorized/by admin

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IT Staffing – CIOs Finally Ready to Start Hiring Again

After years of penny pinching and putting off key software and hardware implementations, IT executives now say they’re ready to start hiring again.

It was the worst of times these past three, four years and IT workers suffered as much as more as most. While companies across all industries were busy pink-slipping millions of workers, shuttering facilities and abandoning all non-essentially IT projects, it was the networking, software and security specialists who were out of work and largely out of luck.

But as CIO Update found, those days appear to be over as the vast majority of some 1,400 CIOs surveyed say they’re adding headcount and are feeling far more optimistic about their company’s future than they have in years.

According to survey by headhunter Robert Half International, 64 percent of CIOs blamed understaffing in their company’s IT department for impairing their ability to implement innovative or emerging technologies.

To turn things around and build out computing environments in the cloud or to update ancient installed hardware and software platforms, CIOs will have to not only begin hiring more networking and cloud-computing specialists, but pay them handsomely to keep competitors from luring them away.

It’s not the exactly 1999 again, but CIOs are starting to see some blue sky on the horizon and that means good things for IT workers across the board.

IT Security – Gartner: IT security spending to remain steady, but not a top CIO priority

June 10, 2010/0 Comments/in Information Security, Information Technology, Information Technology Field, IT, IT Budgets, IT Spending, Uncategorized/by admin

Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. will announce Thursday that during the next 12 months, it expects that enterprises will spend approximately 5% of their total IT budgets on information security technology. While that percentage is down slightly from 6% last year, Gartner forecasts that overall IT budgets will increase by nearly 2%, meaning security spending will largely hold its ground.

My concern is this treading water… spending the same amount as last year, and hoping they attack someone else.
Mark Kadrich
President and CEO, The Security Consortium

Gartner this week is previewing its latest security spending data — compiled via a host of recent research efforts — in advance of its Security and Risk Management Summit, which takes place near Washington D.C. June 21-23.