Advanced and pervasive virtualization and cloud computing trends are driving the need for a better, holistic approach to IT support and remediation. Keeping virtualized servers that support mission-critical applications and databases at top levels of performance 24 x 7 is a much different problem than for maintaining physical servers in traditional configurations. Read more
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Most enterprises, service providers and governments have ramped-up their use of virtualization over the past several years, with many impressive results. Those paybacks can only continue, however, if the overall service and support of these complex and dynamic environments keeps pace. Read more
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Indian outsourcing giant, Infosys, has reported strong growth by American standards for the 2011-12 period. However, going by Indian standards, revenue growth needs to be higher if it wants to keep investors interested in the stock. The benchmark Bombay Stock Exchange was also lower by 1.6 percent. Read more
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What are the main development trends on IT outsourcing services market? How about the main outsourcing drivers in the near future? Has the recession and the following cost-pressures changed the companies’ attitude to outsourcing? What are the main advantages, disadvantages, trends, image and specifics of the CEE region as a cluster of IT outsourcing services providers? Will Europe outrun the USA as the biggest outsourcing spender in the coming years? How does the growth of new technology trends (Cloud computing, virtualization, etc) impact IT outsourcing and business models? – These and other important ITO issues have been discussed in the newest report “Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review”, being a research effort undertaken annually by the Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA).
Except of that, the report presents results of an online survey, where representatives of 246 companies located in CEE countries have been interviewed. This unique publication also presents profiles of these countries, covering such data as capital, population, GDP, ITO market volume, number of companies, number of professionals in IT services industry, their hourly rates and useful links. A comprehensive list of companies operating in CEE countries is a useful reference for individuals and companies interested in CEE region.
The full 164-page-report (which is free of charge) can be downloaded from the following location:
http://ceeoa.org/CEE_ITO_Review_2010.zip
Magdalena Szarafin
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The build, buy or partner equation has favored “buy” once again as HP moves aggressively to dominate IT operations management and governance software and services. Read more
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We’re only in the first years of the data-driven decade. More companies will be making more of their business decisions — and also added revenue — on their own data services. Read more
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Written by Dana Gardner · Filed Under Blogs, Cloud Blogs | Leave a CommentClearly 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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Despite the controversy regarding outsourcing, IT outsourcing is catching on among U.S. firms. There are a few reasons why. Read more
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Outsourcing has become a phenomenon of the present and it is popular among those offering services and the firms that are buying services from outsourcing locations. Read more
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To be successful as an outsourcing service provider you should put yourself in your client’s shoes. If you provide your services to other geographical destinations, try to consider their specialities as language, culture, the way of doing business and other local factors. And if you want to do business with Austrian, German or Swiss customers, try to be as Germanic as possible. Read more
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