Managed Services
527 Stories
Tata targets high-end network services
News Tata Comms touts slew of varied investments in Asia-Pacific, in effort to beat competition from operators and content-delivery service providers.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Network security, Data centers, network, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Cooper, Singapore, content delivery, managed services
S'pore startup to plug managed services hole
News Value Advantage wants to help managed services providers penetrate SME market, and address "disconnect" in how technology is packaged and sold.
Tags: Infrastructure/architecture management, Service level management, Services, Business, Canadian company, Greg Lipper, Small And Medium Enterprise, CEO, COO, Asia-Pacific
M'sian SMBs not demanding managed services
News There has to be more investment in awareness and marketing of managed communications services, to break the trend of low demand and supply for such services in the country, says analyst.
Tags: Service level management, Services, Network infrastructure, Business, Ovum, Mobile, Telecommunications, Survey, marketing communication, Small And Medium Business
Xerox to acquire Affiliated Computer Services
News Dcument company has said it will buy ACS, a major American public-sector business-process contractor, in a US$6.4 billion deal.
Tags: Hardware, Business Strategies & Functions, IT project management, Xerox Corp., Asia, Outsourcing Company, BPO, managed services, South America, solution provider
Fujitsu unveils new S'pore data center
News Touted as the IT vendor's greenest in the region, the facility boasts features such as monitoring controls that help save up to 30 percent of customers' power bills.
Tags: Data centers, Servers, LANs and WANs, Thailand, Singapore, Storage, Small And Medium Business, Southeast Asia, Fujitsu East Data Centre, Server
Thai managed services market booming
News The outsourcing market in Thailand contributes about 25 percent of the overall IT services market, worth US$856 million and expected to achieve double-digit growth.
Tags: Outsourcing, Web services, Service level management, Location-based services, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Managed Security Service, IT Services, Thailand, SLA
Philippine carrier outsources to Israeli firm
News Country's largest carrier Smart Communications, ropes in ECI Telecom to provide network management services that include surveillance and maintenance.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Mobile platforms/communications, Network administration/implementation, ECI Telecom Ltd., Telecommunications, Philippines, network equipment, Israel, network management
Survey: Cloud computing hits big time
News Half of Global 2000 companies surveyed have already adopted the infrastructure, or will do so within next 12 months, according to AppLabs.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web Conferencing, Survey, software testing, Cloud computing, webinar, managed services, systems integrator, business case, Benefit
'Smart' move can help Asian firms ride slump
News Investing in a "dynamic infrastructure", part of Big Blue's "smarter planet" vision, can help region's data centers prepare for growth in the future, says IBM exec.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Virtualization, Cloud computing, IBM Corp., Infrastructure, International Data Corp., Singapore, asset management, Service Management
'Back to basics' for Asia's IT services market
News Region's IT services sector will focus on cost savings and less on business transformation, while balancing need for corporate governance, says IDC.
Tags: Services, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cost control, Outsourcing, IT Services, International Data Corp., PaaS, cost management, corporate governance, managed services
Asia's hosted services to reach US$15.5B
News Market is boosted by managed converged communication and security services, which will grow 25 percent and 18 percent, respectively, says IDC.
Tags: Service level management, Outsourcing, SMB, Hewlett-Packard Co., Contract, IT Services, International Data Corp., workplace, managed services, customer service
Dell seeks services clout from cloud
News update The vendor delivers managed services through the cloud, a model it says can help customers gain substantial cost savings.
Tags: Services, Web services, x86-standard servers, SMB, India, Japan, Customer, network, managed services, software-as-a-service
Michael Dell talks Netbooks, services, green IT
News The smallish devices known as Netbooks may be all the rage, but the CEO still needs some convincing.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Services, Green IT, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green IT, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, phone, CIO, Google Android
New NCS-SCS 'a force' in S'pore
News SingTel-owned NCS' majority stake in Singapore Computer Systems will boost SingTel's local services market share but not regional footprint for now, say analysts.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Services, Acquisitions, SingTel, IT Services, Singapore, phone, Human Resources, financial, managed services
Uncertainty over cloud strengthens SIs
News Lack of policies and regulations governing cloud computing strengthens value proposition of systems integrators, says Datacraft executive.
Tags: Cloud, ITIL, Information Security, Cloud Computing, PaaS, managed services, software-as-a-service, systems integrator, business case
