IT workers may be on the move; Hosted e-mail and uptime

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Aug 9, 20072 mins

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IT workers may be on the move, 08/07/07: Be prepared to potentially lose some of your IT staff to other opportunities. New research from recruitment firm Spherion shows 38% of IT workers are likely to look for a new job in the next year. This is up 4% from the previous quarter.

Survey: Half of compliance pros say their organizations botching identity, access control, 08/06/07: Polled about their organization’s approaches to identity and access management, audit and compliance professionals in industry and government expressed a high level of frustration with how their IT and business management units are managing IAM.

India’s BPO industry offers to invest in education, 08/07/07: India’s business-process-outsourcing (BPO) and call-center industry is willing to invest in government programs that would increase the number of people it trains in skills relevant to the industry.

Hosted e-mail and uptime, 08/07/07: We have just published a major new study on hosted and managed messaging, focusing on full messaging services, security, archiving and other areas. One of the issues that we wanted to explore is the likelihood of midsized and large organizations (the focus of the research) to use various types of hosted and/or managed services. We wanted to explore how likely it would be that organizations would consider deploying particular hosted or managed services at various price points, at various service-level agreements and so forth.

Juniper aims to lure Cisco certified folks with free training: Juniper confirms it is offering free training to Cisco-certified pros worldwide to train for and to take its JUNOS certifications.

What’s the best bargain on enterprise network products you’ve ever gotten?Join the discussion.

Bought a bunch of Cisco routers for a song? Nabbed Windows Vista (legally) for a great price? We know people love to brag about saving money. Here’s your chance to show your peers just how smart or lucky you’ve been. And if there are lessons to be learned here, all the better. We plan to write a story based on the best stuff.