"outsourcing" news, interviews, and features

News about outsourcing

• 7 hot IT outsourcing trends — and 7 going cold

  The days of low-cost commodity outsourcing are over. Today’s IT organisations seek stronger strategic partnerships based on value-generating strategies, structures, and incentives.

• Outsource this: how businesses are handing over cloud management to others

  Although many companies froze their outsourcing efforts at the start of the pandemic, others are now planning to use outsourcing services for the first time ...

• Cloud Plus takes outsourcing services for partners offshore

  Insentra first customer to use new Philippines team

• HCL Technologies lands five-year deal with TransGrid

  IT services provider will help TransGrid provide safe, reliable and efficient transmission services

• What will the Govt’s critical infrastructure laws mean for IT partners?

  The Federal Government calls for industry feedback over its proposed critical infrastructure security laws

• Airservices goes to market for IT outsourcing overhaul

  The organisation wants to shift from an internally managed environment to an externally provisioned, commodity-based scenario

Interviews about outsourcing

• Global outsourcing: IT service providers will reach for the cloud in 2010

  TPI's head of global outsourcing advisory talks about market trends and why cloud computing will dominate the outsourcing space this year

Features about outsourcing

• With H-1B visa, diversity doesn't apply

  There's a dramatic difference where tech H-1B workers come from, depending on whether India-based outsourcers are involved.

• Displaced IT workers are being silenced

  A major problem with the ongoing H-1B debate is the absence of displaced IT workers in news stories. Much of the reporting is one-sided -- ...

• Hypocrisy and connections help IT outsourcing firms

  Infosys and other offshore firms need all the business and political connections they can get as they work to fend off efforts to restrict the ...

• How a Private Cloud saves money and the environment

  The public cloud was a no-go for mission-critical applications

• The world's most unusual outsourcing destination

  North Korea is nurturing an IT force with competitive pay rates, but political concerns make it a hard place to do business

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

  Here's how to build a good relationship after the contract's signed