Cloud sourcing is a dynamic aspect of the IT industry that is revolutionizing the IT services market. Alsbridge’s expert cloud sourcing advisors predict 2012 will be the year of both opportunity and destruction for providers and enterprises in the cloud. Click here to download the white paper.
Definition: “Cloud computing provides on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that users can rapidly provision and release with minimum client or provider interaction.” — From Cloud Sourcing for the Corporation by Ben Trowbridge, CEO, Alsbridge “I think there will be an explosion” in the near term, predicts Steven Morris, senior [...]
If ITO were a movie, Cloud, analytics and mobility would be the headliners. Although this trendsetting triad is having a dramatic impact on how services are consumed and how companies operate, a number of other significant trends are emerging in the ITO space. This article focuses on those unsung heroes and the impact they’ll have [...]
Symphony Services is a software innovation company. We help our clients ideate, develop, deploy and manage innovative software and software-enabled products. Our solutions address traditional and new software product engineering challenges created by faster release cadences, the need for mobile cross-platform user experiences and the shift to a cloud delivery model. Symphony Services has changed [...]
Tuesday, January 17, 2011 | 10:00 a.m. PST Most CIOs today agree that the promise of cloud computing is faster time to value and greater scalability – all with lower upfront costs and overhead. Yet while there are certainly benefits to be realized in the cloud, organizations are finding not all clouds are created equal, [...]
In the world of IT, Cloud has been the media darling, taking center stage in every conversation and publication. While it’s true that Cloud is a major trend in and of itself, its adoption has caused a domino effect in the industry as a whole. The advent of utility-based pricing, in combination with a more [...]
Enterprise IT and compliance groups agree on one thing for certain: their cloud environments could use some work on the security front. Less than half of the 1,018 IT security practitioners and enterprise compliance officers surveyed by the Ponemon Institute, which conducts independent research on privacy, data protection and information security policy, believe their organizations [...]
Sweeping change is difficult for any organization. But in an industry such as insurance whose operations are tethered to a complicated aggregation of legacy systems, will the organization’s ability to adapt and embrace cloud-based technology be especially challenging? Cloud-based products represent the industry’s greatest opportunity to move the dial forward. Implementation of private or public [...]
The cloud computing business model is one based on conformity. In exchange for that largely standard approach to technical delivery and service levels, customers can gain access to cost-effective solutions for everything from desktop support to infrastructure to business applications with minimal capital investment or ongoing management. “The vast majority of providers will leverage a [...]
One of the biggest misconceptions in the Cloud Computing market is that today’s new web-based services will ‘disintermediate’ the channel. In fact, there are plenty of opportunities for traditional and new channel partners in the Cloud. But, it is also imperative that leading Cloud vendors leverage channel partners to sustain their current growth and capitalize [...]
Cloud computing is the convergence and evolution of several concepts from virtualization, distributed application design, grid and enterprise IT management to enable a more flexible approach for deploying and scaling applications. Learn more about delivering a future-state architecture that captures the promise of Cloud Computing. Click here to download the Oracle Cloud Computing Whitepaper.
If you were ranking the most talked-about topics of 2011, Cloud Computing would probably fall somewhere in between Charlie Sheen and the Royal Wedding. But, in most cases, that talk hasn’t translated into a groundswell of action. According to a recent Alsbridge eSeminar survey, one of the stumbling blocks appears to be the initial planning [...]
Achieving the Cloud Computing Vision – Cloud computing is the convergence and evolution of several concepts from virtualization, distributed application design, grid and enterprise IT management to enable a more flexible approach for deploying and scaling applications. Learn more about delivering a future-state architecture that captures the promise of Cloud Computing. Download the free white [...]
Ritesh Idnani is the chief operating officer of Infosys BPO and one of the 15 members of the executive leadership team at the Infosys group of companies. He successfully helped scale Infosys’s BPO business from $43 million in FY 2005 to $427 million in FY 2010. Based in New York City, Idnani focuses on managing [...]
Companies will migrate to the cloud; that is a given. An Alsbridge white paper found the major impediments to wider use of cloud services today are not technology related, since that capability is proven. Rather, they are related to process, security and change management. Alsbridge gathered the data from two CIO cloud forums. The participating [...]
Buyers of outsourcing services want their service providers to invest in technologies that bring continual improvement to the outsourced processes. Providers want to invest only where it is also beneficial to their margins in the long run. Therein lies a conflict. Are there reliable predictors of a buyer’s intent for a long-term, mutually beneficial relationship [...]
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