Features

• Analysis: Massive layoffs at HP make for IT outsourcing identity crisis

  By Stephanie Overby | 24 May, 2012 19:14

  It's been more than three years since HP acquired IT services provider EDS, and the long-term direction of its bigger - if not better - outsourcing business is no more clear than it was on the day the deal closed.

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

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

  IT as we know it is over.

• The world's most unusual outsourcing destination

  By Martyn Williams | 11 June, 2010 10:48

  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.

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

  By Mary Brandel | 09 March, 2010 07:29

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

• Outsourcing information security

  By Simon Burson | 28 January, 2010 07:24

  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.

• ANZ to Spend $500m on Managed Network and Services

  By Tim Lohman | 05 May, 2009 10:04

  Singtel-owned telco Optus is provide telecommunications and managed networks service to the ANZ bank under a new $500 million, five year contract.

• 10 Cultural Faux Pas You Should Never Make in India

  By Shawna McAlearney | 18 April, 2009 09:02

  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!

• Cisco quietly downsizing through outsourcing

  By Jim Duffy | 13 March, 2009 10:26

  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).

• Where the US presidential candidates stand on tech issues

  By Grant Gross | 21 October, 2008 07:40

  The 2008 presidential election gives CIOs and other IT executives a choice of two major-party candidates who are interested in technology-related issues. While the US economy and the war in Iraq have dominated the debate between Republican nominee Senator John McCain and Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama, they have also hit on such IT hot buttons as telecommunications and tech jobs.