4 ways companies can close the legacy tech skills gap

Computerworld Tech Careers October 20, 2015 INSIDER 4 ways companies can close the legacy tech skills gap One of the best ways to encourage younger IT professionals to learn legacy skills and technology is by starting where they do -- in schools and universities. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Bank's severance deal requires IT workers to be on call for two years 2. Veteran CIO values personal connections 3. The cloud changes IT culture, demands new tech skills 4. Oleg Dulin: IT departments must transform in the face of the cloud revolution 5. Automation expected to cut workforce needs by 25% at IT services firms 6. Twitter cuts engineering team, lays off 1 in 12 employees 7. INSIDER CSO salaries expected to skyrocket 8. INSIDER Disruptive innovation, education and open data: Tim O'Reilly, CEO O'Reilly Media 9. Sharky: And that's why they invented maintenance contracts Webcast: VCE Are You Stuck in an Inefficient Upgrade Cycle? Stuck in an inefficient upgrade cycle, A. Duie Pyle, a business offering dedicated truckload and warehousing solutions, turned to VCE converged solutions. Learn More Bank's severance deal requires IT workers to be on call for two years Many of the 100 affected IT employees, who are now training replacements, have years of experience and provide the highest levels of technical support, according to sources. READ MORE Veteran CIO values personal connections After transitioning from a long tenure at GE to the CIO position at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Martha Poulter's first move was to go on a 'listening tour' to get feedback from users and learn the business. READ MORE The cloud changes IT culture, demands new tech skills At The Weather Company, all 400 IT staffers had a job or skills change because of cloud computing -- every single one of them. READ MORE Oleg Dulin: IT departments must transform in the face of the cloud revolution IDG Contributor Network: Cloud computing democratizes developer and end user productivity at the expense of transparency and IT control. Since developers and users are able to provision and utilize resources as needed, it's easy for costs, overall architecture and security to get out of control. Rather than getting in the way of productivity, however, IT departments must evolve and become... READ MORE Webcast: VCE VCE CEO Announces the Next Wave of Converged Infrastructure Watch this video as the CEO of VCE, Praveen Akkiraju, and others from the VCE executive team, detail the strategic vision for VCE and the latest solutions that make IT simplicity a reality. Learn More Automation expected to cut workforce needs by 25% at IT services firms In a poll of representatives of about 170 global sourcing firms, nearly one-third of the respondents said they expect job cuts of 25% or higher by 2020. READ MORE Twitter cuts engineering team, lays off 1 in 12 employees Twitter will cut up to 1 in 12 of its jobs as it streamlines its product road map, new CEO Jack Dorsey told employees. READ MORE INSIDER CSO salaries expected to skyrocket A recent report says top CSO salaries could reach a quarter of a million dollars. READ MORE INSIDER Disruptive innovation, education and open data: Tim O'Reilly, CEO O'Reilly Media In this CXO Talk interview, Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, discusses disruptive innovation, education, open data and changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. READ MORE Sharky: And that's why they invented maintenance contracts Flashback to the days of giant mainframes, big tape drives and teletypes -- and some less-than-completely reliable connections. 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