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Google: The cloud is cheaper
News In response to McKinsey report, search giant says companies should consider application stack in addition to hardware when weighing costs of cloud.
Tags: Cloud computing, Cost control, Budgeting/cost control, Software, Cloud, Virtualization, Google Inc., McKinsey & Co., Small And Medium Business, Cloud computing
Zoho: Cloud customization cheaper than on-premise
News Customization of cloud apps need not be costly and some companies can avoid customization altogether, says software-as-a-service player.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software engineering/development, Software, Red Hat Inc., CRM, McKinsey & Co., Singapore, Software, Cloud computing, API
SAS touts tool to measure 'green-ness'
News Business intelligence vendor launches scorecard to help firms assess and manage carbon footprint, whilst maintaining economic sustainability.
Tags: Green IT, Data warehousing/business intelligence, SAS Institute, McKinsey & Co., Tool, business intelligence, performance, software, Kuala Lumpur, managing director
Nokia takes aim at Apple
News Finnish mobile maker's product launch offensive includes a new netbook, handset and tablet PC that seem squarely aimed at its top rival.
Tags: Cellular phones, Notebooks and tablets, Apple Inc., Smart Phone, Gartner Inc., Sales, Apple iPhone, Netbook, Notebooks and tablets, Cellular phones
Greening the Valley, one tech giant at a time
News Executives from Cisco, HP, and Sun talk at Fortune conference about how to prevent the tech industry's carbon footprint from growing to 3 percent by 2020.
Tags: Green IT, Hewlett-Packard Co., Carbon Footprint, Tech Industry, Energy Consumption, McKinsey & Co., Emission, Jonathan Schwartz, printer, network
More tech executives join Obama transition team
News President-elect Barack Obama is enlisting more veterans of the tech industry to help his transition team evaluate federal agencies.
Tags: Government, Transition Team, Leave, McKinsey & Co., chairman, FCC, Cellular Telecommunications, Reed Hundt, co-chair, vice president
McKinsey: Energy efficiency could save US$700B
News Rather than invent new sources of energy, reducing waste in appliances, homes and business could yield savings of US$1.2 trillion on a US$520 billion investment over 10 years, consulting firm says.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Investments, Combined Heat and Power, greenhouse gas emission, McKinsey & Co., greenhouse gas, energy efficiency, Canada, barrier
McKinsey's MSC study was leaked, says MDC chief
News Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC) chairman Dr Othman Yeop Abdullah said the AWSJ report Monday on the shortcomings of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), was the result of a leak of a confidential study conducted by consultants McKinsey & Co.
Offshoring's second wave
News Half of factory work is headed overseas, according to a McKinsey report. Next on the list: telecom equipment, car parts and pharmaceuticals.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing
AOL wants half of revenue from overseas
News AOL Time Warner Inc, the biggest media and Internet company, wants to get 50 percent of its revenue from outside the US in 10 years, up from 17 percent today, chairman Stephen Case said.
Move over, China and India?
Blogs weekly roundup If the news this week is anything to go by, it's not a question of whether you should outsource; it's whe...
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing
IBM M'sia evacuates after bomb scare
News At least 600 employees in IBM Malaysia were asked to vacate their office early this morning following a bomb scare.
Shaping up for compliance
Insight Get ready to shape up your IT systems while complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Malaysia to get high speed broadband
News Government unveils US$4.5 billion high-speed broadband project, promising to fund 30 percent of the initiative. Telekom Malaysia is awarded the project.
Tags: Personal broadband, LANs and WANs
AOL struggles with delayed DSL service
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