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Asia to warm up to Cisco's data center plan?
News news analysis Cisco Systems' Unified Computing has impact on enterprise server market, but it will take time for networking giant to convince users, observers say.
Tags: Data centers, Servers, Virtualization, Infrastructure/architecture management, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Storage
Multisourcing finds favor; analysts question firms' readiness
News The pendulum is swinging back to multisourcing deals, but not all companies know how to make it work.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Vendor selection
Asian firms tap on the best offshore
News Enterprises will focus on global delivery and sourcing in 2008, and the trend will spur growth in emerging markets, says research house IDC.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, IT budgeting
Is a giant awakening?
Blogs If we analyse the global sourcing market on a geographic basis, one key trend stands out significantly, as shown in the ...
Players in the sourcing industry
Blogs Sitting in a major software outsourcing conference in Beijing this week, I couldn't help but wonder about the players in...
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring
What's happening in Japan?
Blogs A short follow-up on last week's post regarding market data for the first half of the year. Historically a major cont...
Fast, competitive, structured
Blogs In my job, I get to spend a lot of time with both clients and service providers, and often find myself discussing the to...
Unisys opens offshore IT facility in China
News Unisys has launched a new offshore services and software development centre in Shanghai as part of the continued expansion of its operations in China.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring
What's in store in 2007?
Blogs Predictions are always risky but there's something about the New Year that sees people engage in such rashness, and I fi...
Sourcing maturity
Blogs A while back, I talked about inexperienced practitioners and more recently about professionalism in sourcing. Some conve...
Inexperienced practitioners help or hinder growth?
Blogs Sitting in a meeting last week listening to someone describe some of their sourcing challenges, I started to reflect on ...
A fine balance of cost, capability, capacity
Blogs As I recover from some spinal surgery (hence the short break in these blogs), I have had plenty of time to think about t...
Understanding sourcing management
Blogs Something's wrong so it must be the service provider's fault! How many times have we all heard that? As the sourcing ...
Sourcing inputs versus outcomes
Blogs As an industry, we can be a bit lazy with respect to clarifying the terms we use to describe various sourcing models. As...
Should you use a sourcing advisor?
Blogs I need to declare upfront that I work for the largest global sourcing advisory firm (TPI) but I don't think that leads t...
