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April 2, 2009 (CIO) It’s hard, in an economy that finds bottom and then wallows there, to say that a particular set of IT skills is in extremely high demand. Recruiters acknowledge that amide layoffs and slashed IT budgets skill areas designated “hot” may only be “less cold than others.”

Skills in virtualization-which is both a hot new technology and one that can save enterprises lots of money in data-center costs-seem to have overcome that faint praise, however, and become genuinely hot.

“If you look at what demand is out there and the cost savings you can achieve with [virtualization], that speaks volumes. That’s why it still gets the budget dollars approved for it,” according to Brian Gabrielson a regional vice president of Robert Half Technology, the IT-recruiting division of global contract-employment and recruiting giant Robert Half International (RHI).

An interesting article talking about the top 5 virtualization skills that are needed in the enterprise. I wonder if we wont see recruitment in the IT sector return as many organizations have reduced their IT support spend significantly, you can only do this for so long before revenue, before service becomes affected.

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