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Use fewer application outsourcing providers, get greater benefits
Most companies have achieved direct cost-savings from outsourcing. The next stage is to demand a measurable increase in business performance. Bringing some discipline to your apps development and maintenance is a good start.
Seven steps to effective outsourcing measurement
Effective outsourcing management must go beyond an obsession with service level agreements and systematically measure what matters to the business.
How to make the most of the cloud
The lack of buzz about the recent VMware announcement of vCloud Express is, to me at least, puzzling. VCloud express is VMware's riposte to Amazon Web Services, a publicly available, get-started-with-a-credit-card, IaaS offering. Since VMware is a software company, it has partnered with service providers to deliver the product to market. In essence, vCloud Express packages up VMware technology, surrounds it with a set of APIs to control and manage the package, and allows service providers to offer vCloud Express. It's sort of cloud in a box.
Outsourcing: Grief free benchmarking
You know you need to benchmark your IT service provider on cost and efficiency, but it can be anexpensive and time consuming process. There are alternatives to a full-on benchmarking, that offer value to hard pressed IT organisations.
How to make cloud more secure
With much of the focus of cloud computing switching to security, here are five handy tips to keep your environment secure.
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How to create a transformation roadmap
Create a definitive plan specifying how your outsourcing partner will provide those contractually obligated improvements.
Tough talk for hard times
A guide on how to negotiate harder with vendors, cut waste, sharpen licences and get more out of your IT.
Satyam fraud scandal: Timeline
The case of Satyam's accounting fraud has been dubbed "India's Enron". Here is the chain of events leading up to the appointment of a new board.
Getting to grips with grid computing in the enterpise
In this special report ComputerworldUK highlights some of the speakers and issues at the Open Grid Forum's OGF20 event and rounds up recent grid computing news.
Keep counterfeit products out of your IT shop
Counterfeit goods have popped up in the channel and could be in your organisation. Could you spot them before they cause problems?
Server virtualisation: doing more with less (part 2)
Virtualisation has gone mainstream. Given the technology’s upside, it’s easy to see why.
Server virtualisation: doing more with less (part 1)
Virtualisation has gone mainstream. Given the technology’s upside, it’s easy to see why.
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