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 [...]
It is the era of the 24/7 employee – but no one seems to be complaining. Cloud computing, collaboration convergence and the need for access-on-the-go have driven a surge in mobility technologies. Instead of wanting to “get away from it all,” people want to take it all with them – accessible through the lightweight devices [...]
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 [...]
A recent CIO Roundtable sponsored by Alsbridge, Inc. resulted in several breakthroughs on adopting and implementing cloud computing. Every IT executive in the room had two things in common: (1) a driving need to explore and leverage cloud solutions and (2) lack of a clear way to validate the cloud offerings in the market and [...]
Allied Digital Services (Allied) is a global IT services and solutions company that partners with customers to make IT an enabler of positive change in the organization. We accomplish this by providing end-to-end IT solutions for customers across multiple industries and geographies. With over two decades of proven experience in technology and enterprise IT infrastructure, [...]
New delivery models, new pricing models, service providers’ new marketing strategies, moving up the value chain to intellectual arbitrage, new technologies, real-time customer interaction, globalization, and new standards and regulations – these factors set the stage for risks for buyers of outsourcing services in the next two to five years. (Read Forces of Change Shaping [...]
The Hackett Group recently conducted a study to understand what companies are doing in the area of cloud computing, where the greatest areas of opportunity and risk are, and early lessons learned that may make adoption easier and more successful for those still on the sidelines. Study findings are segmented into two groups of participants [...]
Charlie Bess, HP Fellow, HP Enterprise Services, says the outsourcing industry is facing “a different kind of IT and support environment than what we had just a few short years ago.” Here’s how he describes this new environment: More sensors deployed in more parts of a customer’s business giving organizations a deeper understanding of their [...]
Syntel is a leading global provider of custom Information Technology and Knowledge Process Outsourcing solutions that improve quality and reduce costs. Our portfolio of solutions spans the entire range of technical services and process operations for Global 200 organizations in the Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Insurance, Logistics, Manufacturing, Retail, Telecom, and [...]
Latisys was founded in June, 2007 as Managed Data Holdings LLC (MDH), in conjunction with two high-quality private equity investors: Great Hill Partners and Catalyst Investors. Strategically, Latisys is aimed at the operation of enterprise-class data centers across Tier I and Tier II markets in the United States to meet the increasing demand for managed [...]
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 | 11:00 a.m. CST; 12:00 noon EST; 9:00 a.m. PST This webinar has ended. Download the handout from the webinar. Early adopters of cloud solutions have focused mostly on email and collaboration solutions; ERP, CRM, and SCM standalone applications; testing environments and systems management tools. The promise of speed, predictable cost [...]
T-Systems is a worldwide operating information and communication technology (ICT) provider. It forms the B2B arm of Deutsche Telekom AG, and its central office is located in Frankfurt, Germany. Since December 2007, Reinhard Clemens is the CEO. T-Systems is managing over 1.1 million desktops and supports more than 1.5 million SAP users wordwide. We are [...]
Companies are placing more focus on ensuring software products deliver real impact to business needs and also growth to the business, observes Mohammed Haque, Genpact’s Vice President and Head, Enterprise Solutions Service practice. It’s more than just acquiring software for operations; the focus is now on getting the most value out of software assets and [...]
“We will see a dramatic change in security becoming a prevalent component of outsourcing contracts over the next five years,” says Jim Motes, Chief Information Security Officer for Dell Perot Systems. As virtualized services in cloud and utility computing technologies become more ubiquitous, they will drive an even deeper focus on security. A virtualized environment [...]
Technology enables business change, but it doesn’t drive it. Jim Stikeleather, Chief Technology Officer at Dell Perot Systems, says change doesn’t happen unless there is an economic value. And that’s why cloud computing will make such a huge impact on outsourced services. It changes companies’ ability to consume IT. “This will create a very different [...]
Brinker International serves more than one million guests in its 1,700 restaurants daily. In 2004, data integration was paper intensive and manual and began to encroach on the Brinker dining experience itself. Outsourcing data management was its recipe for success.
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