Don Tennant

If you thought the H-1B provisions of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill introduced in the Senate last week by the “Gang of Eight” are causing a stir here in the United States, you should see what’s happening in India. I’ll give you a hint: They’re not happy. There’s even talk in India of playing the […]

Top 10 Issues Eroding Cloud Confidence At what point does a company that provides remote data center services to enterprise customers suddenly become a cloud services provider? Is it a gradual transition or a switch they flip to take advantage of the buzzword du jour? I discussed that question last week with Jim Leslie and […]

How Well Do You Know the Cloud? Just when we thought IT and the business were finally starting to get their alignment act together, everything started to fog over again when the cloud arrived. The two constituencies have significantly different interests and concerns with respect to cloud computing, and that’s making it difficult for a […]

Seven Tips to Attain Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work The next time you find yourself staying up late into the night, working from home to meet a deadline your boss gave you, or responding to work email on a weekend during your kid’s baseball or soccer game, imagine what it would be like […]

Eight IT Certifications Trending Up for 2013 Is the key to answering the problem of the shortage of current programming skills in the U.S. tech work force held by an individual in Vernon, Conn., who founded an online computer programming training company called LearnToProgram.tv, and who bills himself as “Adorable Guy and Instructor” on the […]

Ten Mistakes You Should Never Make When Starting a New Job According to a recent survey, more than half of technology professionals, when accepting a job offer, agree to whatever compensation is offered without making any attempt to negotiate for a higher starting salary or hourly rate. The survey indicated that money is being left […]

In my post yesterday about Indian IT services provider Mindtree, and what I showed was a contrived H-1B message aimed at downplaying the company’s increasing reliance on H-1B workers, I mentioned that the contrived messaging notwithstanding, Mindtree has taken the important step of opening its first U.S. delivery center. In an interview on Monday, Scott […]

I had an interesting conversation earlier this week with a senior U.S. executive at an Indian IT services provider, and I came away from it with a deep sense of gratitude that I’m not in his shoes, and in the uncomfortable position of feeling like I have to tap dance around the awkward H-1B visa […]

Just a month after six people were indicted by a U.S. District Court in Texas on multiple charges related to H-1B visa fraud, a businessman in Silicon Valley last week was indicted on 19 counts of H-1B visa fraud following a multi-agency U.S. government investigation. The government’s crackdown on H-1B visa abuse is being accompanied […]

Recent media reports on sexual violence against women on college campuses and in the military have shed some much needed light on crimes that all too often go unreported. The extent of the abuse in those environments raises a question that needs to be asked: How widespread is the problem in the corporate workplace? In […]

Last week, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced legislation aimed at eliminating fraud and abuse from the H-1B visa program. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the legislation is far too little, far too late. Don’t get me wrong. I would be the first person in line to shake Grassley’s hand and thank […]

It makes a lot of unemployed U.S. IT workers crazy when they hear reports of an ongoing IT skills shortage in this country. But the newly released results of a survey conducted by the Society For Human Resource Management adds more weight to the already substantial body of evidence indicating that the skills shortage is […]