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• After pay cuts, IT workers may seek payback in new job

  It may be matter of debate whether the IT job market is improving.

• Build archiving systems to meet compliance demands

  The thicket of federal, state, and industry-specific regulations is enormously complex. Most organizations fail to comply with some rules, often due to policy conflicts. The best way for companies to navigate the maze and avoid penalties is to show a "best effort" -- a serious, honest attempt to ensure that records are properly and securely archived in accordance with the best possible understanding of regulations.

• Twitter moving into its own data center

  Twitter hopes to improve the reliability of its service by moving into its own, custom-built data center later this year, the company said on Wednesday.

• Forrester: 2010 IT spending still looks strong

  Despite fears caused by the European debt crisis, spending on technology products and services is set to continue growing around the world, although the pace of growth in Europe overall will be lower, Forrester Research said in a report released Tuesday.

• Gartner calls for IT maintenance bill of rights

  Analyst firm Gartner has formed a new advocacy council around the issue of IT maintenance contracts and issued a "code of conduct" it wants vendors to follow, actions that could further intensify an already hot topic.

• Career Watch: Finding a job in a third the time

  Q&A: David Perry

• IBM takes blame for massive bank system failure

  IBM took responsibility for a major IT system failure suffered by one of Singapore's largest banks on July 5, saying an employee's error caused the outage.

• Career advice: Coping with someone who steals ideas

  Hand Arendall IT director Melvin Evans Ask a Premier 100 IT Leader

• JackBe rolls out 'enterprise app store'

  JackBe is applying the app store concept to its own products for building enterprise mashups, applications that pull together data from various systems.

• HP breaks in new TPC power usage benchmark

  The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has added a power efficiency metric, TPC-Energy, to its ongoing roundups of speedy transactional processing systems. Hewlett-Packard is the first participant to use the new TPC-Energy specification, submitting benchmark results of four of its systems.

• Aus IT shops messy after virtual land-grab: Microsoft

  A rush by Australian organisations to adopt virtualisation has left them with messy IT shops that will take three years to clean up, according to one Microsoft director.
  

• IT résumés: Think twice about the advice you've been given

  Recruiters, professional résumé writers and other career experts give out tons of advice on how best to write a résumé that will stand out from the competition. Their intentions are noble - they want to help people land jobs - but the problem with their advice is that it doesn't always apply to IT professionals and the nature of the work they do, says Shana Westerman, a recruiting manager with IT staffing firm Sapphire Technologies.

• Gartner rolls back 2010 IT spending forecast

  Gartner has dropped its 2010 IT spending forecast, citing currency fluctuations caused by the ongoing European debt crisis.

• Open-source ERP 'most active' SourceForge project

  Open-source ERP (enterprise resource planning) software may still represent a small chunk of the overall market, but as a concept it has clearly gained a critical mass of adherents.

• Job-hopping the key to a 'razor sharp global career'

  Businesses must be flexible and provide alternative career paths for their employees in order to survive the current skills drought.