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Given that security incidents are inevitable, how can IT executives budget for them, earmarking funds to cover staff overtime, replace hardware and software, and pay security specialists to investigate an attack? After all, it is difficult to quantify losses due to a breach, especially when no company wants to admit that they occur. Moreover, in an era of IT belt-tightening, requests for money "just in case" may not be greeted warmly by boards of directors.

Although specific financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed, both companies said they have pledged "significant investment" in marketing efforts and training of sales staff. The two tech giants said they will promote their new alliance to thousands of potential cu...

To find those new leaders for startups, venture capitalists andstaffing firms usually turn to executives at old-world companies."They have an ability to manage a large workforce," Efstathiou said. "Theyhave the ability to enter new markets and to broaden the sales base andcustomer base of the firm. And that takes a different skill set than acompany that's building its products."

The companies said the services will be tailored to customers' needs and will range from management of specific IT areas to entire IT staffs. Ann Livermore, executive vice president of HP Services, said enterprisesseeking to reduce IT costs are the most likely candidates for such outsourcing...

Since IT budgets have been slashed in the economic downturn, many businesses are seeking ways to reduce the burden on overworked staff. One way to do thisis to use a SAN, or storage area network, which reduces data management costs, increases hardware efficiency and improves data recovery capabilities. With networked storage, any user armed with the proper level of access can search for any piece of data stored within an enterprise...

Founded in 1994, four years before Amazon jumped into the online music arena, CDNow was once the dominant seller of compact discs on the Web. But the company hit rocky shores, forcing parent company Bertelsmann, which bought the firm in mid-2000 for US$117 million, to slash staff and curtail operations at the onetime dot-com darling.

And Efstathiou said there are plenty of IT job opportunities in government, a sector that continues to spend on technology and that will lose more than half of its IT staffers to retirement over the next five years He added that although the tech job situation has not yet turn...

Big Blue said it will staff its On Demand Innovation Services team with 200 IBM research consultants, who will split their time between pure research and working with customers on real-life computing and business problems. In essence, IBM is renting out its vaunted technology...

The question is this: how can a company cut IT staff without doing more harm than good to its bottom line? What is the anatomy of a skeleton IT crew? ...

Other than the chief technology officer and the engineering staff, "every executive is new," Critical Path chairman and CEO William E. McGlashan, Jr. told the E-Commerce Times. Indeed, since McGlashan joined the company in the spring of 2001, Critical Path has been laying groundwork for a two-pronged turnaround, tackling financial issues as well as streamlining its technological offerings...

Giga Information Group director John Ragsdale told the E-Commerce Times that the products Vicinity offers make sense because the alternative is for corporations to staff call centers to answer the same basic questions repeatedly, such as where a store is located or what hours it is open. "That is not a cost-efficient approach," he said...

Just three years ago, those interested in an e-commerce career simply had to stand around and jobs would drop into their hands like fruit falling from an overburdened apple tree. But the economy's long decline has forced many companies out of business, and many of the remaining players have slashed their staffs to the bone, making e-commerce jobs far harder to come by. Even so, there are jobs out there, though many are well hidden and take longer to land...

The dollars spent by tech sector heavyweights on research and development number in the billions. For example, in the semiconductor space, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) will have spent US$4 billion on R&D by the end of 2002. The company operates more than 75 labs staffed with 7,000 researchers, and it increased its R&D spending by 412 percent between 1991 and 2001.

StarCore spokesperson Allen Hyman told the E-Commerce Times that EU approval was the final hurdle to opening the company's doors, and that the staff is "ecstatic." "We've gotten a number of calls from customers and potential customers after we said we were forming this company...

Mike Sinneck, corporate vice president of worldwide services at Microsoft, said better-trained HP sales staff will enable companies that are already implementing .NET to realize more gains from their investment. As if to underscore the point that .NET is already being impleme...

Telleen noted that staffing patterns often determine response times. For example,e-tailers often hire extra personnel to handle holiday sales in the fourth quarter, thenretain those employees for much of the first quarter of the next calendar year to handlereturns and exchanges...

These boom-era CIOs were called on to implement creative strategies, especially at dot-coms. They also were asked to hire more IT staff and to run a tech-focused shop that could churn out Web sites and lay the groundwork for future initiatives If a CIO happened to spend a hug...

Kwasny said the site, which lets visitors watch adult videos online for a fee, has nonetheless had to adjust to a growing field of players since setting up shop in 2000. The company keeps specialized personnel on staff whose primary job is to implement changes based on the latest streaming video technology...

According to Lavietes, technology gives PR professionals the freedom to leave their desks and work remotely with both colleagues and clients. "It has been very common in my work experience to serve on accounts in which the agency staff and client staff have been spread across offices, coasts and regions," he said.

During the wait, there will likely be more staff cuts, budget reductions, department consolidation and overall belt-tightening "The number one priority for these companies is to get profitable," said Enderle. "They have to make sure they can weather this situation."