Patrick Thibodeau

Articles by Patrick Thibodeau

Customers, resellers worried about Oracle-Sun deal

Customers and resellers of Sun systems want answers about the fate of various product lines once Oracle completes its US$7.4 billion acquisition. So far answers have been vague

Q&A with the man who helped raise server temperatures

It's been a year since an engineering body said it was safe to raise the operating temperatures of servers and storage systems. Roger Schmidt, IBM fellow and one of the leaders of the initiative, discusses new temperature parameters and other issues involved in cooling data centres and reducing power usage

Top Washington IT security official charged with bribery

Vivek Kundra takes leave from new federal CIO post until more is known about the FBI's investigation of his former organization

Jobseekers overwhelm IBM over planned Iowa facility

IBM's plans for an IT centre in Dubuque, Iowa that will have openings for 1,300 workers has been met by a flood of 3,000 job applicants

Overseas option for displaced IBM workers

IBM workers facing layoffs in Canada and the U.S. are being given a rare opportunity by Big Blue to move to sunny Brazil, China or India. The catch: expatriate employees will be paid local salary rates

Stimulus package could boost IT job prospects

The outlook for IT jobs in 2009 may not be as bad as it seems. In fact, a US federal economic package might even create new positions, according to analysts

One in four IT jobs moving offshore

Large companies will move about 350,000 corporate jobs offshore over the next two years, according to a recent survey. About half of those positions will be in IT

Women more prone to IT workplace accidents than men

Study says footwear is major cause of workplace injuries among female IT workers

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