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Dirty Secrets of the IT industry

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Oct 28, 2013

IT pros blow the whistle on the less-than-white lies and dark sides of the tech business, in Dan Tynan’s ‘Dirty Secrets of the IT Industry‘: ‘Do sys admins wield power far beyond the CIO’s worst nightmares? Are IT employees routinely walking off with company equipment? Can the data you store in the cloud really disappear in an instant? Are you paying far too much for tech support? … IT pros usually know where the bodies are buried. Sometimes that’s because they’re the ones holding the shovel.’

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