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India in the 21st century remains a country of stark contrasts and perhaps one of the biggest contrasts is how a country with a thoroughly globalized and thriving IT services and outsourcing industry can still be (officially) socialist. In fact, a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by Barun S. Mitra is well worth reading as he noted that in India, “we’re all (still) socialists.” His article began by noting that Indian politicians love to talk about “reform” and yet most of them still like to spend more money (Americans and Europeans, does this sound familiar?). Moreover and when it comes to spending US$22 billion in annual food or fertilizer subsidies or the rural employment guarantee scheme (and so on), there is little to no debate – despite the fact that India has a vibrant democracy around 50 political parties at the national level. Read more
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Clearly seeing a sweet spot amid complex and costly applications support for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and SAP R/3 implementations, HP on Monday delivered a CloudStart package of turnkey private cloud infrastructure capabilities with a self-service, SasS portal included. Read more
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Recently I read a blog in the Harvard Business Review web site. It is an interesting blog that discusses outsourcing and IT innovation. The blog suggests that large scale IT outsourcing limits strategic value of companies and limits innovation using IT as a strategic asset. It is sad that still blogs and articles are being written questioning the value of outsourcing and connecting company’s lagging innovation to outsourcing. Most of the Fortune 1000 companies in US have fully-owned subsidiaries in emerging countries like China, India, Brazil, Philippines, etc. US companies have been sending work from US to its subsidiaries all over the world. What do you call this practice? Outsourcing, offshore outsourcing, insourcing? Read more
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Platform Computing has paved the way to faster private cloud adoption with a low-risk, low-cost way for companies to evaluate their use of cloud computing. The Platform ISF Starter Pack, announced this week, will enable architects and IT managers to get a cloud sandbox environment up and running in less than 30 minutes, the company says. Read more
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A trio of cloud ecosystem companies have collaborated to offer an integrated technology platform that aims to deliver a swift on-ramp to private and hybrid cloud computing models in the enterprise. Read more
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According to a new report by Forrester Research, second tier outsourcers located in India can offer specialized services in certain areas that their larger counterparts like Infosys or TCS may find too niche to resolve. Read more
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The recent US decision to hike H-1B visa fee is blatantly discriminatory and this is some thing on which both the Indian outsourcing industry and government hold the same view. Not only is it seen as a retrograde move likely to have a negative impact on Indian outsourcing industry, but also as one that will do more harm to US interests than good. Also there is a growing feeling in India that every time Obama’s ratings plunge on account of economy issues, or there is an election around the corner the administration turns its guns on the Indian IT industry, blaming it for loss of jobs. This is reminiscent of the way the US used to be blamed by left leaning politicians of India some years back for everything ranging from inflation to drought. Read more
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As data center planners seek to improve performance and future-proof their investments, the networking leg on the infrastructure stool can no longer stand apart. Advances such as widespread virtualization, increased modularity, converged infrastructure, and cloud computing are all forcing a rethinking of data center design. Read more
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This guest blog post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is a senior analyst at Ovum.
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