Three U.S. tech worker groups have launched a labor boycott of IBM, Infosys and Manpower, saying the companies have engaged in a pattern that discourages U.S. workers from applying for U.S. IT jobs by tailoring employment ads toward overseas workers.
New Zealand IT services company Datacom is about to lose the Australasian datacentre-hosting business of Manpower, the labour and recruitment services company.
Virtualisation isn’t just about storage. Virtualisation of the operating system is becoming increasingly popular as well. By virtualising the operating system, companies are able to consolidate servers, increase central processing unit (CPU) and memory utilisation, and provision new servers faster.