Established IT outsourcers are getting squeezed at both ends of the competitive spectrum. According to the annual offshore outsourcing survey conducted by Duke University’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and PwC, incumbent India-based and U.S. IT service…
Not surprisingly, analytics plays an increasingly important role in governance, risk and compliance. “Used effectively, analytics helps an organization better understand risk components,” says Accenture consultant Rob Dyson. He believes that by examining various factors—ranging from security to document tracking—it’s…
Don’t look now, but there’s a daisy chain being built in the cloud. In January, Verizon bought the pioneer cloud company Terremark for $1.4 billion. Three months later, CenturyLink announced it would buy managed services host (and cloud infrastructure provider)…
Editors note: Data center certifications are required by more companies that ever before. Governments, vendors and customer require data center certfications as a condition of doing business. SSAE 16 is the replacement for SAS 70 data center certifications. SSAE 16…
Enterprises looking to revamp their strategies around data center optimization and utilization face the initial decision of whether to build from scratch or to retool their existing systems. Creating a new data center from scratch allows an organization to plan…
