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Training PerspectiveKey challenge for IT infrastructure Managing the business of technology is an emerging niche SOMETIMES IT is not just change that matters but the rate of change. India's rapid emergence as a global hub of the information technology services business has created a unique challenge — and a huge opportunity at the same time. Masala mix The challenge is how to contain complexity as enterprises grapple with a masala mix of legacy systems and futuristic tools to hold their competitive edge. A study recently completed by industry watcher Hydrasight reveals that with its young demographics India has a decade's head start on the rest of the world in tackling the complexity of IT infrastructure says Principal Analyst Michael Warrilow. more > IBM Looks for Hundreds of Workers IBM is hiring several hundred professional consulting and IT services staff in Australia and New Zealand poaching many of them from rivals. Some of the extra staff may be put to work at dairy giant Fonterra. The Australasian arm of what is now the world's largest consulting firm let about 270 staff go earlier this year after posting a fall in net profit last year. But Ian Ball the new managing partner for Australia and New Zealand claims IBM has repositioned itself in the region and is now recruiting people with skills that are more relevant to the marketplace and its clients. more > Big Blue ready for mainframe battle We're going to spend a bunch of money IBM has plans in place to spend tens of millions of dollars to coax new customers to buy the company's mainframes. The money will be spent in the next couple years on tasks such as training customers tuning their software for mainframes and helping them migrate computing infrastructure said Jim Stallings who in January took over as head of the mainframe group. When you have a mainframe in your infrastructure you understand its attributes. If you haven't been exposed to that it's very different Stallings said. We're going to spend a bunch of money helping them. more > IBM wants to train younger mainframe professionals IBM said it was embarking on a global training initiative to produce 20 000 mainframe professionals in the next four years an executive told reporters. The company said it is currently working with at least 300 universities and training institutions around the world said Ray Jones vice president of worldwide zSeries software sales in a briefing in Manila. IBM intends to conduct training on mainframe in universities. We're going to do it in the Philippines the executive added. Jones said local customers in the Philippines are interested to help IBM to produce a younger pool of mainframe talents. more > Business burdened with legacies It isn't just legacy systems that can stifle an organization but legacy thinking. People resistant to change will not survive changes to the industry according to Gartner analyst Steve Prentice. Gartner estimates IT jobs will be cut in half by 2010 thereby removing stagnant-minded staff. The skills of the past are not those required in the future and organizations will find it increasingly difficult to retain necessary expertise in an ageing workforce Prentice said. The research firm says legacy thinking occurs when attempts to retire or replace systems are undermined by entrenched attitudes towards change fear of the issues and risks involved and budgetary constraints . Gartner says examples of legacy psyche are it's always been done that way our application is unique and this is core to our business - we cannot change it . more > Business burdened with legacies It isn't just legacy systems that can stifle an organization but legacy thinking. People resistant to change will not survive changes to the industry according to Gartner analyst Steve Prentice. Gartner estimates IT jobs will be cut in half by 2010 thereby removing stagnant-minded staff. The skills of the past are not those required in the future and organizations will find it increasingly difficult to retain necessary expertise in an ageing workforce Prentice said. The research firm says legacy thinking occurs when attempts to retire or replace systems are undermined by entrenched attitudes towards change fear of the issues and risks involved and budgetary constraints . Gartner says examples of legacy psyche are it's always been done that way our application is unique and this is core to our business - we cannot change it . more > |
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