IT management

Retired mainframe administrators are being offered lucrative deals and better work conditions by businesses unable to replace the experienced workers.

Midsize companies have jumped on the virtualization bandwagon to achieve cost savings on hardware, power and space, according to survey results released Tuesday.

With the economy struggling and financial markets in a state of chaos, this is becoming a hard time to be an IT manager. On every here's-how-to-survive-the-recession list that Gartner Inc. analysts presented at the consulting firm's Symposium/ITxpo 2008 conference in Orlando last week, the No. 1 cost-reduction option for IT execs involved people -- in the form of hiring freezes, job cuts or flattening organizations by eliminating layers of management.

Kenya's minister of cooperatives development and marketing has urged savings and credit societies to adopt technology to avoid collapsing.