outsourced news from FierceCIO

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...

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...

Every CIO wants to save money, and that has given a big boost to outsourcing. Craig Lee, CIO of Honolulu-based American Savings Bank, outsourced key banking applications at his facility, which has Read more...

Best Buy recently settled an age discrimination lawsuit filed in 2004 by 44 former IT workers who had been laid off, most of them after the electronics retailer outsourced its IT operations to Read more...

Outsourcing makes strong IT leadership even more critical. Strong leadership means blending resources, optimizing performance and customer service and making IT more agile by overcoming barriers Read more...

There are many reasons why more and more enterprises are migrating to software-as-a service: cutting costs, reducing the number of non-critical tech tasks, streamlining business processes. But Read more...

Describing the IT effort at Accenture--one of the industry's leading consulting and outsourcing firms-- as dynamic doesn't quite do justice to how the company is running IT these days. As CIO Read more...

> Why tech titans are eying Vietnam these days. Article > Microsoft takes a nagging approach in Read more...

A new report illustrates today's disconnect between what tech leaders need in terms of in-house skills and their longtime traditional approach to outsourcing. While business and communication Read more...

If you're starting to believe that the next job to be outsourced is the top role--the CIO job--one pundit wants you to stop that thinking immediately. As research data points out and trend Read more...