Outsourcing news from FierceCIO

For CIOs thinking about new outsourcing opportunities, make sure you negotiate a detailed contract that includes specific plans and procedures to protect yourself if something goes wrong. And if the Read more...

Are you finding IT job prospects slim and good programming and data center positions moving abroad or being handled by an immigrant holding an H1-B visa? Maybe the answer is to go where the jobs are, Read more...

Business Week posted its top 100 Information Technology companies worldwide--companies that are in hot industries, and that have performed well in terms of shareholder return, revenue growth and Read more...

> Is outsourcing safe? Article> GM embraces IT. Read more...

A new study from Deloitte finds that CIOs and other IT executives are lukewarm about outsourcing. The study, Why Settle for Less, found that only 34 percent of respondents reported that they had Read more...

Companies are looking for new ways to save money, and they may have found it: running data centers remotely. The reason is simple. As hardware prices fall, labor takes on a larger share of the costs. Read more...

This past Wednesday, large parts of the Middle East and South Asia experienced an Internet outage when an undersea cable off the northern coast of Egypt was severed. Though 70-80 percent of Internet Read more...

There are plenty of good things to say about outsourcing and plenty of bad things, too. A new trend is beginning to emerge as some companies are losing faith in the value of sending work overseas. Read more...

There's a new twist in the growing trend of finding and keeping the right CIO. While many American companies are importing CEO talent from Europe, Asia and the Middle East, there's a reverse trend Read more...

Has the wind been taken out of the sails for overseas outsourcing? Probably not. But there are plenty of cautionary tales about the changing terrain of getting things done cheaply abroad. The first Read more...