EMC president and chief executive officer Joe Tucci predicts that the storage market will undergo significant changes in 2006 due to the prevalence of emerging technologies and growth potential in new customer segments.
For Community Medical Centres, a recent move to a filmless environment has had multiple business benefits. The traditional method — placing images such as X-rays, MRIs and ultrasounds on film — was expensive and time-consuming. Two years ago the non-profit hospital group began moving to a system that would let those images traverse the network, so technicians, doctors and other medical staff from just about anywhere could gain access to them.
Wouldn’t it be refreshing if you could email the author of the software you use to ask questions about it? Open source software users do that every day, and would have us believe their software is all the better for it.
New Zealand organisations may have been somewhat slow to embrace open source, it isn’t because they fail to appreciate it.
An IT manager buying a packaged application would almost certainly do so only after adhering to a templated, multi-stage selection process. But would these executives take as much care when hiring a staff member? Eighty-five percent of the human resources executives participating in the Aberdeen Group’s recent survey, The HR Executive’s Agenda, said attracting and keeping talent was the primary challenge keeping them awake at night. The fact specialists worry about it tends to suggest it’s no small matter. IT managers have a different set of skills and responsibilities from HR managers, so how consistent and repeatable are their own recruitment and selection processes?
The Australian IT job market will be fruitful this year with telecommunications engineers particularly sought after, recruiters say. While demand will outstrip supply, “opening the floodgates” to candidates from outside Australia isn’t the answer, some recruiters say.
Companies like Google behave almost as though the dotcom crash never happened. They still emphasise the importance of fringe benefits in their recruitment and selection process. “Let’s face it — programmers want to program, they don’t want to do their laundry,” says Google boss Eric Schmidt in Google: Ten Golden Rules, a recent article in Newsweek. “We make it easy for them to do both.”