Patrick Thibodeau

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Machine-based decision-making is coming

Taking partiality and compensation bonus considerations out of the equation will lead to better decisions, a Gartner analyst says

Gartner: Machines make better decisions than humans

A research analyst takes a "maverick" position on how IT may shape the future by changing how businesses make management decisions

IT tier-level support, chargebacks, called wasteful

At its annual Symposium/IT Expo in Orlando this week, research firm Gartner offers 16 ways IT can improve operations in lean times

Expecting a recession, Gartner urges ‘creative destruction’

The market research firm gathers CIOs and other executives for its annual IT Symposium. Among the predictions: By 2016, one in eight people on the planet will have a tablet computer rn

Dell as a services company? Maybe, say customers

Seen mostly as a hardware vendor, Dell wants to change that perception as it moves deeper into services

U.S. IT industry shrinks as an employer in the past decade

Although the U.S. continues to lead the world in many areas of tech, overall tech employment is being hurt by an erosion of manufacturing and telecommunications jobs

U.S. government creates ‘tech fellows’ program

The program, similar to the Presidential Management Fellows program, seeks recent graduates of "top graduate programs" with "significant experience" in IT and computer science, for a two-year paid appointment

Server virtualization pushes storage demand to new highs

Virtualization is "eating up storage left and right," says one analyst at the Afcom data centre conference

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