Work governance into sourcing contract
Organizations that spell out in contracts how they intend to govern client-provider relationship will have "better chance at success", according to industry player.
Ovum: China lacks IT services powerhouses
Despite government push in IT and business process outsourcing services, Chinese equivalents of TCS and Infosys will not emerge in "foreseeable future", report says.
'Best effort' insufficient for cloud
Cloud ecosystem needs operator participation to provide single point of blame, to win businesses' confidence in moving over, says consultant.
HP-3Com merger heats up Cisco competition
update Hewlett-Packard's 3Com acquisition will give serious boost to its datacenter credentials and challenge networking rival Cisco Systems, notes analyst.
HP zeros in on converged data centers
Wide portfolio and supply chain efficiencies make HP's new offering to enterprises more relevant than "hobby" competitors, according to Asia-based exec.
Cisco, EMC, and VMware make alliance official
The three companies are forming a joint venture that will provide unified data center products to big corporate customers.
S'pore startup to plug managed services hole
Value Advantage wants to help managed services providers penetrate SME market, and address "disconnect" in how technology is packaged and sold.
India tops global outsourcing nations list
Country trumps outsourcing nations ranking with six cities making the top 8 outsourcing destinations, according to global study.
Philippine govt dumps IBM, heads to Oracle-HP
Country's pension agency ditches IBM and starts migration to system running Oracle database and HP servers, ending months of tensed relationship with Big Blue.
Global drug firm opens M'sian IT center
GlaxoSmithKline sets up US$17.7 million tech center in Malaysia, its first in Asia, to support company's global operations and networks across 85 countries.
Data center planning needs new paradigm
Businesses need to factor in scalability, flexibility and focus more on keeping operational costs low to equip themselves for cloud environments, says IBM exec.
Indian IT runs home, new geographies for growth
Hit by global recession, India's local tech firms target projects on home soil and venture into new regions including Middle East and Latin America.
Older data centers 'capable' for cloud, too
New data centers are being optimized for cloud computing but older facilities are capable and may need only minor tweaking, according to industry player.
BPO players to shrink 25 percent by 2012
Critical for companies to pick right business process outsourcing partners as quarter of top providers will cease to exist in three years, Gartner predicts in new report.
Analysts: Dell-Perot buy limited in reach
Latest acquisition puts hardware maker in big leagues with the likes of HP, says Dell executive, but analysts are less optimistic about its impact.
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