IT worker optimism plummets
The Hudson
Employment Index for IT workers dropped more than six points to 109.0 in
January. Decreased optimism in personal finances and job satisfaction
sparked the decline. Just half (51 percent), of sector workers rated
their finances favorably in January, down from 57 percent in December.
In contrast, the national index remained steady this month, sliding just
.8 points to 102.6.
Nationally, managers were less confident about
their firms' hiring plans in January than the previous month. Only 29
percent anticipated more hiring in the coming months, compared to 33
percent in December. They were also slightly less optimistic than
workers overall, 30 percent of whom anticipated a boost in headcount
(unchanged from December).
Dovarri product
honored
Houston-based Dovarri Inc., a hosted CRM/sales force
automation company, said TechTarget's SearchCRM.com named Dovarri 6.0
the 2005 small- and midmarket Sales Force Automation Product of the
Year.
Dovarri 6.0 is a hosted SFA tool designed by and for sales
professionals. It enables sales data to be more easily integrated with a
company's existing applications, eliminating repetitive data entering.
TECSys upgrades ConsoleWorks
Plano-based
TECSys Development Inc. upgraded its software product, ConsoleWorks.
ConsoleWorks 3.1 offers network security and event remediation
enhancements, including remote security monitoring of regular network
printer ports.
ConsoleWorks' advanced monitoring allows it to
receive data from SMNP traps to interpret multiple devices hardware
along the network.
Wireless spending outstrips
lines
For the first time, in 2006 U.S. businesses of all sizes
will spend more on wireless voice services than on wireline, reports
In-Stat (www.in-stat.com). And wireless data services will make
significant gains as well over the next several years, the high-tech
market research firm says. Expenditures by enterprise firms (1,000 or
more employees) on wireless data will grow an average of 18 percent per
year through 2009.
Recent reports by In-Stat found the
following:
* Mid-sized firms accounted for 12.4 percent, or $24
billion, of total U.S. business telecom spending in 2005; these numbers
will reach $33 billion and 13 percent of the total U.S. business market
by 2009.
* Small business spending on Internet access will grow to
$8.2 billion by 2009, up from $4.4 billion in 2005, largely due to
adoption of DSL and higher bandwidth services.
* Spending on
wireless data services will outpace all other categories in the SOHO
segment, growing to nearly $2.2 billion in 2009, up from $0.47 billion
in 2005.
Texas Memory debuts storage
program
Houston-based Texas Memory Systems introduced its new
Fast Access Storage Tested (FAST) program to help IT managers and
database administrators configure high performance storage networks that
can accelerate I/O-intensive databases, OLTP (online transaction
processing), OLAP (online analytical processing), modeling, content
streaming and high volume data acquisition environments.
Select
4-gigabit host bus adapter and switches by ATTO, Brocade, Emulex and
QLogic were tested and certified "FAST" by Texas Memory Systems under
the program. All FAST certified products passed Texas Memory Systems
interoperability tests and demonstrated performance or features critical
to Texas Memory Systems' solid state disk
customers.
REAL updates programming
application
Austin-based REAL Software released 2006 Release
1. This new product features enhanced compatibility with Visual Basic,
simplified localization and improved reliability and
stability.
New features in REALbasic 2006 include a new Lingua
utility enables developers to provide translations for their REALbasic
application in multiple languages without recompiling; the ability for
developers to automate repetitive tasks within REALbasic; and the
ability for developers to work with sets of related constants, including
the ability to name a set of constants.
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