Patrick Thibodeau

Articles by Patrick Thibodeau

U.S. federal stimulus money used for IT hardware, not hiring

Job numbers are now available at Recovery.gov, and a sampling of them indicates that the money spent so far has been better for hardware than hiring.

Hard times aren’t slowing down GM’s new CIO

Ralph Szygenda's successor talks about his position on Windows 7, the iPhone and cloud computing as he attempts to steer the IT course at one of the world's biggest automakers

Supercomputers with 100 million cores by 2018

The push is on to build exascale systems that can solve the planet's biggest problems

HP’s CEO: external clouds not secure enough

Hurd says external cloud too insecure to handle critical information, plus he's not keen on the name

Top 10 IT trends for the next 5 years

As users set up shadow IT systems via social networks and mobile devices, IT is poised to strike back with technologies such as client virtualization

L.A. sticks with plan to swap MS Office for Google Apps

The City of Los Angeles plows ahead with it's government cloud services target of replacing Microsoft Office applications and the city's Novell GroupWise e-mail system with hosted Google App services...

CIA endorses cloud computing, but only internally

While it can improve security, the agency won't be outsourcing data to Google or Amazon

Recovery train could leave IT jobs behind

As the economy begins to regain strength, companies are expected to increase spending. But many IT managers are expected to show caution in hiring new workers...

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