managed services in comment and analysis
Future-proof your outsourcing: Stay flexible
Comment While an outsourcer can certainly buffer these fluctuations on behalf of the client organisation, it's important to understand the different aspects of scalability and how these can be best managed within an outsourcing... [12 Nov 2009]
Rid your business of weak passwords and get collaborating
Comment Rather, it can use services managed by a separate organisation, staffed by experts who adhere to stringent quality of service assurance levels. As such services continue to be developed,... [15 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.09.09
Round-Up In the same time the service had only managed to send four per cent of the data. On top of that BT (which is clearly having a busy week) also announced this week that it is partnering with O2 to provide a joined up... [18 Sep 2009]
Datacentres: The temples of IT
Comment Many large system integrators offer managed hosting too but this is often as part of a broader services engagement, and confusingly some also offer co-location services but not on the... [08 Sep 2009]
Cloud computing a buzzing in business ears
Comment Organisations can create a private cloud within their datacentres, a public cloud through secure [vendor]-managed cloud solutions, or a hybrid cloud solution combining private and [vendor]-managed cloud... [20 Aug 2009]
Naked CIO: We need an offshoring tax
Comment I come to this debate not as a neophyte that doesn't see the potential value in offshoring but rather as someone who has managed offshore development and at times argued for offshoring over local solutions when faced one... [20 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up The Round Up just hopes they all managed to keep all that shiny new kit out of the mud and safe from taking a swim in a festival toilet (unlike this unlucky gent a few years back ). The BBC coverage also included... [03 Jul 2009]
Tony Godwin
CIO Profile At Woolworths he managed a budget of up to £40m and a team of 200 employees while delivering award-winning retail automation projects. He is in charge of all IT infrastructure and services, including... [03 Jun 2009]
Darrell Stein
CIO Profile In recent years, the IT chief has also overseen a series of multimillion pound outsourcing deals - including a contract with IBM to upgrade in-store systems; and managed services contracts with... [01 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.05.09
Round-Up While they both have the appeal of sexy internet companies like Google, neither have managed to identify a revenue goldmine in the way Google has. Attempts to monetise the hugely popular web services are... [29 May 2009]
Naked CIO: Oracle and Sun - good luck
Comment This will allow you to ensure that benchmarks and expectations are managed properly. Inevitably, once the deal was pretty much final, IT would be brought into the loop and then be perceived as party poopers when rightly... [27 Apr 2009]
How to come up with big ideas
Comment Use this portal as the one place where all ideas are captured and managed. After all they are working in your marketplace and possibly with your competitors and your customers, so they may have a view to the gaps in some... [16 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.04.09
Round-Up Initially the retraction mechanism was only compatible with some types of bread, but after criticism from organic bread consumers we managed to develop a full cross-comestible DRM. Amazon web services... [03 Apr 2009]
One more way to save during the downturn
Comment One way to mitigate this is to use managed print services (MPS). Quocirca's Louella Fernandes says managed print services can bring savings to many organisations. Most... [01 Apr 2009]
Legal Eye: Five steps to reduce outsourcing risk
Comment Get the governance structure right A good, well-managed relationship can make a success of outsourcing, even if the underlying contract terms are poorly drafted or commercially unbalanced. While the threats identified... [25 Mar 2009]
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