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Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
Storm clouds are gathering over IT outsourcing

Tags: outsourcing, ibm, salesforce.com, nicholas carr

UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
Target for Greater Manchester cards is missed

Tags: public sector, biometrics, id cards

'Don't just outsource the problem when you outsource IT'
Get the strategy right first, public sector told

Tags: local council, cost savings, public sector outsourcing

Taxman to save £110m by taking an axe to its IT estate
HMRC trims one of UK's largest outsourcing contracts

Who do you trust when you're spending your IT budget?
Hint: They're not sitting a million miles away…

Tags: budget help

How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
Jaguar Land Rover CIO on cloud computing, leaving Exchange and simplifying IT

Tags: car manufacturer, tcs, tata motors, jaguar land rover

Will 'citizen developers' shake up IT development?
DIY app builders will create their own personalised business apps beyond the control of the IT department

Tags: business applications, citizen developers

2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
But CIOs should ask the CFO for more money now, before all that ageing hardware fails

Tags: it spending, it budgets, equipment failures

Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users
IT overhaul signals advent of cloud-based collaboration for one UK company...

Tags: google, cost, users, cloud

Home Office inks £430m deals with Atos Origin, Fujitsu
£100m shaved off tech costs

Tags: atos origin, fujitsu, home office


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Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
Self-scan tech in the bag for supermarket giant

Tags: supply chain management, sales, retail, sainsbury's

iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
Stories of the month - September 2009

Tags: graduates, software, peter cochrane, stories of the month

How to avoid getting burned when outsourcing
Telltale ways of spotting the danger signs with BPO suppliers

Tags: gartner, bpo, offshoring, outsourcing

Xerox snaps up ACS in $6.4bn deal
Another multibillion-dollar acquisition in the fight for services dominance

Tags: xerox, acs

HM Treasury strikes five-year IT services deal
Fujitsu flexes its muscles

Tags: fujitsu, it services, public sector, treasury

Businesses fail to appreciate the value of IT
Tech needs to get itself noticed - but that's no good if they can't explain what value they provide

Tags: decision, itil, business, metrics

ERP delays give CFOs a headache
But what's causing them and how can businesses keep these giant projects on track?

Tags: cfo, delay, costs, roll out

Uncomplaining techies turn in extra hours for free
'Clocking off? I remember that...'

Tags: work, pay, overtime, hours

The right skills to boost your pay packet unveiled
Are outsourcing experts or software specialists better off?

Tags: outsourcing, management, skills, salaries

Dell buys Perot Systems in $3.9bn deal
PC giant bumps up its IT services

Tags: deal, dell, perot

Exclusive: BBC CIO swaps Auntie for consultancy
Beeb's CTO has taken the tech reins...

Tags: it, cto, cio, bbc

White House looks to the cloud for IT cost-cutting
"Building datacentre after datacentre" cannot continue, says Obama administration

Tags: cloud, us, datacentre

More of a whimper than a bang: Whitehall's green tech drive
Public sector's carbon footprint goes down a size: but is the government really serious about making its IT infrastructure more eco-friendly and do the figures add up?

Tags: whitehall

Want to boost your pay packet? Get yourself a bigger employer
Why it pays to go corporate if you're a tech worker...

Tags: smes, techies, skills, salary

Google Apps: Five million students getting a cloud education
Microsoft Office rival takes over unis from Portsmouth to Pennsylvania

Tags: google apps, google

IT graduates failing to make the business grade, say UK tech chiefs
CIO Jury: "How universities can give degrees to people like this is beyond me"

Tags: graduates, management, cio, cio jury

Datacentres get a bridge to the Amazon Web Services cloud
Enterprises seeking virtual private clouds

Tags: cloud, amazon web services

IBM wins five-year BP contract to keep SAP apps slick
Wipro, Infosys and Tata also get a look in

Tags: infosys, tcs, wipro, sap


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