Dice News Update: Big Players Hire, Making Small Companies Scramble for Talent

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• Bigger companies – like Cisco and Intel – are hiring in Boston. That’s forcing smaller firms to compete harder for tech professionals.
• HP’s layoffs are just the latest example of a company changing its staff to take advantage of highly automated, next-generation data centers.
• Sixty percent of companies are outsourcing at least some of their IT.
  But 29 percent have been unhappy enough to fire an oursourcing vendor over the last 12 months.Hmmm.

See last week’s update here.