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5 tips to reduce outsourcing risk

5 tips to reduce outsourcing riskOutsourcing is unpatriotic ntntMost important tip to reducing outsourcing riskOutsource to US companies!RE: 5 tips to reduce outsourcing riskI can give 1 good tip for reducing the risk, DO NOT OUT SOURCE, why put your companies valuableassets at risk to save a few bucks, you...

Tags: Managed hosting, outsourcing, outsourcing risk, offshoring

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

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Assessing the maturity of cloud computing services

Clouds today, bet on SunActually the better comment from Larry Ellison is his comparison of Cloud Computing to fashion. Seriously, even the contention that the author makes that cloud is "new" because of multi-tenancy is not completely correct. Applications from ERP down to MS Word have been able...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Virtualization, Enterprise software, cloud computing, Marketing Machine

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]

Andrew, thanks for doing a real interviewThese days, when most bloggers just link to a PR wire story for their source, ZDNet surprises us with an actual interview. An interesting interview to boot! There is still hope for online journalism. Thanks Andrew.RE: AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the...

Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, INTERNET, cloud computing, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

The taboo of failure

Google plans for failureI read sometime back about google's strategy to handle hardware failure. Instead of focussing on building expensive unbreakable hardware, they assume it a given and build it into the software to handle hardware failures. So the concept is gaining ground.http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/07/13/built-to-fail-how-companies-like-google-ideo-and-37signals-build-failure-tolerant-systems-for-anything/Great managers understand it.I once worked for a...

Tags: Strategy, great manager, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

Top 10 Risks of Offshore Outsourcing

Minimize your risk!Very in-depth and informative article! Outsourcing should be done in baby steps. Before jumping into bed with an outsourcing company and transitioning an entire department make sure you know what you want to accomplish by outsourcing.There direct saving and in-direct saving due to the time and energy...

Tags: Managed hosting, outsourcing, baby step, offshore outsourcing

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Target's departure from Amazon creates IT risk; Opportunity for GSI Commerce?

Target plans to leave Amazon's e-commerce platform to build its own site ahead of the 2011 holiday season. The transition is going to be one of the more visible IT projects in the next two years. Amazon will take a bit of a profit hit from the...

Tags: Information Technology, GSI Commerce Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Target.com, E-business, Target, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Retail, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Go cloud, young man

Go cloud, young manGo Cloud...IndeedPhil,Great post today. I can't recall how many times I have advised friends who are unemployed to make the move to online occupations. I have a dear friend who has been in traditional advertising for 20+ years, who recently lost his job. I...

Tags: Data centers, INTERNET, Regulatory compliance, Strategy, young man

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

With Microsoft search deal Yahoo risks becoming AOL

Yahoo and Microsoft are expected to announce their long overdue search pact to seal an 18 month courtship. While outsourcing search technology to Microsoft makes a lot of short-term financial sense, the strategic impact remains to be seen. The biggest question: Has Yahoo just turned into AOL? ...

Tags: Advertisement, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Search Technology, Microsoft Corp., Bartz, Search, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-29

The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .

Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...

Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-20

News to know: Morro reviewed; RIM; Intel; Windows 7

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: How good is Microsoft's free antivirus software? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Security Essentials: What wannabe testers need...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Cloud Computing, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-19

Who said outsourcing was a security risk?

Who said outsourcing was a security risk?Its a quit old picIts a quit old pic circulating in emails.RE: Who said outsourcing was a security risk?Since when ZDNet writers started relying on forwarded mails? This is an ages old pic featuring in a much forwarded email. And BTW, those are electricity...

Tags: Managed hosting, Phil, security risk, outsourcing, security

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

Who said outsourcing was a security risk?

Telephone wires, India by Phil Fersht

Tags: Security Risk, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Fersht

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Top 9 Network Security Threats in 2009

By realizing the threats, one can work to ensure the exposure is limited. Additionally, it gives one the opportunity to look at alternative solutions. A company that has traditionally kept their security management and monitoring in-house may use this as an opportunity to look at the cost benefits of outsourcing...

Tags: Opportunity, Network, Network Security, Perimeter eSecurity, Security, Networking

White papers 2009-06-10

Barriers to Entry

Barriers to EntryAlso Risk AssessmentI am not sure if any businesses actually engage in risk assessment for technology or not but there are several fairly large risks in adopting cloud technology.Data Ownership isn't clearly defined.Transmission and storage security has been talked about but I haven't actually seen any solutions.Also when...

Tags: Data centers, Outsourcing, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Storage, barrier, cloud computing, outsource

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Accounting for success? Darwin meets the green eyeshade world…

Have you really looked at your options for finance & accounting lately? BPO business process outsourcing for Finance and Accounting has been going on for a time. The industry owes some part of its success to the shared services efforts of larger firms. When businesses created shared...

Tags: Software, Accounting, Firm, Darwin, F&A, F&A Executive, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Your next software buying decision: zero cost?

Your next software buying decision: zero cost?Open Source it!The beauty of open source technologies and hiring skilled talent not people who want to haul in a bunch of proprietary software the extorts tens of thousands of dollars for nothing on return.Having skills to develop and maintain your own infrastructure is...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, open source

Discussion threads 2009-05-01

Re: Re: Winning the Battle but Losing the War

Larry Dignan wrote here about the reality that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 & 7 are the official, formal web browsers for 78% of companies, a figure arrived at by Forrester research. The simple reason for this is basically security and software compatibility. Many...

Tags: Firewall, Collaboration, Information Technology, IT Department Budget, Strategy, E-mail, Security, Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer

Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayerYou're missing the pointWe should not permit single point of failure networks to be built. Besides, there's over 80 million miles of fiber in the U.S. alone, and it simply is not possible to monitor all that cable, or...

Tags: Network technology, WikiAnswers, cable, prayer, Internet-infrastructure

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

Expect better: IT Partner Bill of Rights

No question about it, the information technology business is global in reach and implementation. And while working with an IT partner in the same city can be painful enough, working with a partner 12 time zones away is fraught with risk and uncertainty. In the wake of the recent financial...

Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Offshore IT Outsourcing: An Integral Component of High-Performance IT Organization

This white paper is a part of a series of informational papers developed by Keane to share knowledge on specific outsourcing issue that should be considered in today's business environment. This paper covers the topic of Offshore IT Outsourcing and is the first in the series. This paper provides a...

Tags: Offshore, Keane Inc., Integral, Information Technology, IT Outsourcing, High-performance, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

White papers 2009-03-12