outsourcing

Features

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  From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation

  IT as we know it is over.

  By Johna Till Johnson | 23 April, 2012 21:32

  Tags: cloud computing, Configuration/maintenance, consumerization, Data Center, hardware systems, Harvard Business Review, infrastructure management, internet, mainframe, management, Nemertes Research, networking, Nicholas Carr, outsourcing, services, wireless

• The world's most unusual outsourcing destination

  Think of North Korea, and repression, starvation and military provocation are probably the first things that come to mind. But beyond the geopolitical posturing, North Korea has also been quietly building up its IT industry.

  By Martyn Williams | 11 June, 2010 10:48

  Tags: north korea, outsourcing

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  How to manage outsourcers after the contract's ink is dry

  When the global trade association SEMI experienced a big revenue decline last year and had to cut staff, CIO Gil McInnes turned to outsourcing.

  By Mary Brandel | 09 March, 2010 07:29

  Tags: outsourcing

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  Outsourcing information security

  The need to keep information secure is not a recent development. To satisfy this need, most organisations construct a list of security requirements based on common sense. This has proven fairly effective with simple and well understood media such as pen and paper. As information management (and its security) has become more complex in nature, the likelihood of a gap in that common sense list of requirements has increased.

  By Simon Burson | 28 January, 2010 07:24

  Tags: Managed security services, outsourcing, security

• Offshoring? Try China and India plus a third site

  China may be rising as an offshoring destination, but many companies are outsourcing to multiple countries rather than just choosing between China and India.

  By Owen Fletcher | 22 June, 2009 22:24

  Tags: China, india, offshoring, outsourcing

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  10 Cultural Faux Pas You Should Never Make in India

  It's been 12 hours since your last bite to eat. Your stomach growls angrily as you meet the host who will take care of all your needs while you prepare to sign a big contract with his company. He takes you out to dinner at a nice restaurant--please tell me you didn't just order a steak!

  By Shawna McAlearney | 18 April, 2009 09:02

  Tags: india, outsourcing

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  Cisco quietly downsizing through outsourcing

  When Cisco celebrated the fifth anniversary of its New England Development Center last year - a ceremony attended by Massachusetts Congresswoman Niki Tsongas and a representative from Gov. Deval Patrick’s office - the company was quietly preparing to move several jobs from there and other locations to contractors in India and elsewhere, mostly in the company's Network Management Technology Group (NMTG).

  By Jim Duffy | 13 March, 2009 10:26

  Tags: Cisco, data centres, outsourcing