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News, opinion and discussion about the IT services industry, H-1B visas and the practice of sourcing IT work through onshore and offshore vendors.

IT Offshoring and Data Privacy – Are They Incongruous?

|   Despite the growing numbers of U.S. companies that turn to service providers in other parts of the world to run some or all of their IT, there are still a few cold, hard concerns that give many IT managers pause. Data privacy is one such reason.

For Successful IT Outsourcing, Providers Must Earn CIOs’ Respect

|   Quite a few years ago, when I was a full-time news reporter for a weekly IT magazine, our editor-in-chief often talked about the need for technology companies to talk the talk and walk the walk of the CIO.

More U.S. Companies are Offshoring More and More

|   This is worth repeating. In case you missed the excellent article, “Big U.S. Firms Shift Hiring Abroad: by David Wessel in the Wall Street Journal that slices and dices numbers from the U.S.

IBM’s Growing Outsourcing Business in India

|   IBM continues to reap outsourcing rewards from its growing presence in India.

Indian IT Outsourcing Gets Stronger and Bigger And…

|   Not too long ago, I wrote about U.S.-based iGate Corp. buying India’s Patni Computer Systems Ltd. in a deal valued at $1.22 billion (check out that story

Wisconsin Proposal Says No to Cost and Benefits Analysis of IT Outsourcing

|   Apparently, it’s a bad idea to analyze the costs and benefits associated with outsourcing. At least that’s what it seems is the message behind a proposal from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

IT Outsourcing in Latin America: Hot Hot Hot!

|   I’ve written about the IT outsourcing market in Latin America several times in blogs.

Will Offshore IT Prices Rise? Yep!

|   If the major reason U.S. companies went offshore for IT services was to cut costs… then the latest news out of India may portend a change. Or not.

IBM Finds Outsourcing Work in India

|   This week, IBM announced  it signed a 10-year outsourcing deal with Caparo India to provide enterprise resource planning (ERP) and data center infrastructure services.

Will IT Outsourcing Really Cut Costs? E.ON Says It Does

|   I write about a lot of IT topics, in addition to IT outsourcing. I cover virtualization and cloud computing, for example. I also regularly write about RFID, and supply chain management and other enterprise software.

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