Patrick Thibodeau

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CIOs aren’t CIOs for long

If you want a job with a guaranteed time frame, consider politics before IT management, surveys and folklore show rn

Big firms offer business experience to IT workers

Boeing and Intel use employee rotation programs to improve IT operations rn

Republicans score Fed’s 2.0 government effort at 1.0

Systems integration is proving to be a difficult challenge in data transparency effort rn

When agile came in, cubicles went out

Progressive Medical was so pleased with the agile process for software development, it did what few others are doing, and hired more IT staff

CIOs plot their response to tech’s unstoppable forces

The need to unclutter services is also running up against mobile and ubiquitous computing, while the adoption of mobile devices was a leading theme at Computerworld's Premier 100 conference

Itanium hits 10-year mark, less Windows

Platform continues to move ahead, as Unix market slowly declines. The 64-bit Itanium chip was introduced 10 years ago as a challenger to the RISC systems that dominated enterprise shops at the time

As cloud grows, IT hiring flatlines

Companies have been consolidating their IT resources, which is also spurring hardware buying. A goal is to make their IT organizations more flexible, and by doing so gain capability to use resources globally

Microsoft shifts some work out of Egypt

The software giant is among some 120 companies located in Cairos Smart Village IT office park

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