| Wednesday, April 17, 2013 | |  | | Chris Murphy | | | IT Salary Survey 2013: 11 Career Insights IT is consistently cited as one of the most-promising U.S. careers, even with the rise of offshore outsourcing. As with most professions, however, compensation is rising only modestly. The IT field still pays well, with staffers earning $90,000 in median total compensation and managers earning $120,000, the 2013 InformationWeek U.S. IT Salary Survey finds. But compensation for staffers is flat compared with last year and up only 3 percent for managers.
Compensation varies substantially by skill and industry. Staffers focused on enterprise application integration earn a median $110,000, those in general IT earn $73,000, and those on the help desk earn $55,000. A few staff specialties, such as cloud computing ($130,000), Web security ($118,000), and mobile ($111,000), pay even higher.
This marks the 16th year of our Salary Survey, so we have data to track long-term trends. Compared with 10 years ago, few IT employers have dropped health insurance and 401(k) match benefits, but the one plunge is in "further education/training," down from 45 percent for staffers and 46 percent for managers in 2004 to 29 percent for staffers and 28 percent for managers today. And people are our most important asset? Here are some other data points that should serve as a warning for IT leaders. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND POST YOUR THOUGHTS | |  | |  | | INSIDE THIS WEEK'S ISSUE OF DARK READING People are your most vulnerable endpoint. Make sure your security strategy addresses that fact.
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COMMENTARY Oracle In-Memory Apps: Hunting Hana By Doug Henschen Oracle announced 13 new in-memory applications on Tuesday that the company said will "change business dynamics to quickly discover growth opportunities, make smarter decisions, reduce corporate costs, and accelerate time-consuming workloads." So has Oracle matched SAP's Hana performance improvements with these new apps? Not likely, for technical reasons that I'll explain. But Oracle may succeed in muddying the competitive waters, blunting the competitive threat, and delivering good-enough performance gains to keep Oracle customers satisfied. Windows 8 Did Not Cause PC Sales Slump By Michael Endler You might've heard that PC sales are tumbling downhill. Rest assured, this is definitely the case--and the decline will continue. What may also happen is that some companies will see their market position crash and burn along the way. Plus, you might have heard that Windows 8 is to blame for all this--and that assertion is harder to defend. Microsoft hasn't helped, but the PC's free fall involves bigger forces than Win8's inauspicious first six months. 10 Ways To Get Users On The Social Business Bus By Debra Donston-Miller Social business technology has the potential to increase revenue, cut costs, improve relationships with customers, and enhance internal and external collaboration. But if employees don't use the technology--or don't fully or enthusiastically participate--your social business initiative doesn't really stand a chance. Here are 10 ways to ensure that employees get on the social business bus. 94Fifty's Sensor-Laden Basketball Shoots, Scores By Fritz Nelson Someone tell Lakers center Dwight Howard that his free throw woes are over: A new basketball packed with motion sensors can teach him how to stop heaving bricks. The product, 94Fifty, developed by InfoMotion Sports Technologies, promises to bring the geeky worlds of mobile computing and data analytics to a court near you. The ball and its "freakishly smart" sensors collect shooting and dribbling data, feed that data to a smartphone app that helps players make adjustments in real time while practicing, and provide a wealth of coaching drills and assistance. |  JOIN THE CONVERSATION Posted By Andrew Hornback, InformationWeek Contributor: "It makes sense to add flash as a storage tier as opposed to replacing all of the spinning media in one fell swoop. For bulk storage, archives, disk to disk (and disk to disk to tape) backup, rotating media makes a lot of sense. When you have an application that can actually utilize the performance increase available with flash, it's more than worth the investment.
"However, I think Goyal may be dreaming a bit in thinking that using flash to run a database from may end up reducing the number of operating cores in an environment. If there's something I've learned over my career, quantities don't tend to roll back, especially when they're directly linked to processing power." In reply to: IBM: Flash Storage Hits Tipping Point View Entire Response | Post Your Own Reply | | NEWS & ANALYSIS REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS FEATURED REPORTS State Of Database Technology 2013 When it comes to database deals, customers--not vendors--now have the advantage. Find out the results of our new Database Technology Survey. Also in the new, all-digital State Of Database Technology issue of InformationWeek: Oracle has refreshed its midrange and high-end Sparc servers, but that may not help its bottom line. Download Now (Registration Required)
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