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• Senate immigration 'framework' calls for STEM green cards

  The group of U.S. Senators who are leading an effort to develop a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill want it to include a so-called STEM visa.

• Senators seek H-1B cap that starts at 115,000 and rises

  A bipartisan group of Senators is planning to introduce a bill that not only hikes the H-1B cap, but allows it to rise automatically with demand to a maximum of 300,000 visas annually.

• IT shifts from owning to outsourcing data center space

  Demand is increasing for data center space in multi-tenant facilities, driven by a number of trends, according to a new report.

• If tech is so important, why are IT wages flat?

  Despite information technology's ever increasing role in the economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. This may be tech's inconvenient truth.

• House approves STEM bill, but it's no victory

  The U.S. House Friday approved a Republican-backed STEM visa bill, but the legislation has likely reached a dead-end.

• 9 ways to stop your IT outsourcing deal from leaking money

  If there were a relatively straightforward way for an IT leader to boost his company's bottom line by millions of dollars a year, chances are he wouldn't ignore it. But that's just what many CIOs are doing as a result of poor outsourcing management.

• iGate Patni CEO on his merger of unequals

  When iGate completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Patni Computer Systems in May, the two offshore outsourcing providers instantly leapt over their mid-tier outsourcing peers to become one of the biggest IT outsourcing providers in India.

• IT outsourcing in China and data privacy guidelines

  China's data privacy protection has long been considered one of the world's weakest. But the government's proposed data security guidelines may go too far in the opposite direction.

• Supplier redundancies key to preventing system crashes: Insurance expert

  CIOs and IT managers must have a documented disaster recovery plan (DRP) and built-in supplier redundancies to avoid the consequences of an IT systems crash similar to the one that claimed Virgin Blue’s check-in and operating systems earlier this year, an insurance expert has warned.

• CIOs must revaluate use of outsourcing: Gartner

  CIOs must revaluate their use of outsourcing and move from the role of IT manager to broker if effective resourcing is to take place, a Gartner analyst has warned.

• Outsourcing: Brazil blossoms as IT services hub

  CapGemini's announcement last week that it would invest $298 million in Brazilian IT service provider CPM Braxis attracted a lot of attention in outsourcing circles. The move will give the Paris-based company a 55 percent stake in CPM Braxis, the option to buy the company outright within three to five years of the close of the deal, and the chance to leapfrog its global competitors already entrenched in the country.

• IT Outsourcing: 9 Signs It's Time to Fire Your Vendor

  Breaking up is hard to do. And when it comes to IT outsourcing, it can be expensive and risky, too. But issues with an outsourcer--such as deteriorating service levels, lack of investment, excessive turnover, or even fraud--are potentially even more costly than the actual break-up.