IT departments are planning to increase offshore outsourcing in 2009, after two years of declines. Nevertheless, a new survey shows offshoring remains a very small portion of IT budgets and U.S. IT leaders say they're still grappling with an IT labor shortage.

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Listen to CompTIA CEO Todd Thibodeaux explain how his company's recent survey on telecommuting has revealed the benefits that both companies and employees are getting out of telecommuting.

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Because SIM's annual IT Trends Survey polls many of the world's leading IT executives, it is an excellent indicator of the current state of the CIO role throughout the planet. See six charts that paint of picture of the CIO in 2008.

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As a regular feature of the Society of Information Management's annual IT Trends Survey, the organization asks its IT leaders to identify their most pressing concerns. At its annual SIMposium conference this week in Orlando, SIM published the results of the 2008 survey, including the top concerns of IT leaders for 2008.

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One of the side effects of the information age is that personal privacy has become a major concern for average citizens. And IT often bears much of the responsibility for safeguarding privacy.This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives discusses how privacy concerns are influencing the standard operating procedures of IT.

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On Monday, the Society for Information Management (SIM) released the results of its 2008 IT Trends Survey and it contained a generally upbeat forecast for IT in 2009, although the survey was conducted before the global economic meltdown in September.

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As a presidential candidate, part of Barack Obama's technology policy platform included hiring the U.S. government's first chief technology officer (CTO). If Obama follows through on this, who is likely to get the job? Here are 10 top candidates.

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If Google had not bought YouTube, it might have been sued out of existence. Learn about the technologies Google put in place to handle copyright filtering on YouTube and how often it really works in this new report from ZDNet Undercover.

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Small businesses are big drivers of the world economy, but in IT they occasionally lag behind enterprises in deploying innovative new solutions that can transform the business. Cisco has launched a series of new initiatives to assist small business IT, as Cisco's Ian Pennell explains in this interview.

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Virtualization is having a major impact on IT infrastructure, and its influence will likely grow in the next 5-10 years. Thus, there are some basic principles about virtualization that all IT leaders should understand, as this episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives explains.

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In October, CIO Magazine surveyed its small but exclusive group of IT executives for the third time in 2008 and discovered that the outlook of these tech leaders has taken a sharp dive, with 40% now expecting to cut their budgets.

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After nearly two full years of one of the longest and most turbulent presidential elections in modern U.S. history, the race finally comes to conclusion on Tuesday, November 4. Tell us who you plan to vote for, or have already voted for.

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In order to help tomorrow's IT leaders find the best programs, and to help today's IT leaders find the best IT talent, TechRepublic has released a special report on the Top 10 U.S. college programs for IT.

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From Net Neutrality to H1B Visas to data privacy and other economic and policy issues, the next U.S. president will influence many important developments in the technology industry. See what we know about the stances of Barack Obama and John McCain on the tech issues.

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Microsoft provided visuals and a lot more details on Windows 7 at PDC 2008 in Los Angeles. Get all the details via a set of great reports from ZDNet's Ed Bott and Mary Jo Foley.

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