Network World on Outsourcing
  • Do you recognize your job description?
    IT is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in recent memory -- yet most IT practitioners (including telecom managers) are only dimly aware of what's happening.

  • Dr Pepper shakes up IT
    Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. is expanding its outsourcing work to HCL America Inc., the U.S.-based subsidiary of outsourcer HCL Technologies Ltd. in Noida, India.

  • Judges ask tough questions in H-1B case
    The Obama administration is defending a decision by his predecessor to extend the amount of time foreign students can work in the U.S. without getting an H-1B visa. Arguments in the legal fight touch on issues that have raged for years.

  • Outsourcing: Demise of the Offshore Captive Center
    The offshore captive center was once the Holy Grail of offshore outsourcing. As companies got a taste of the cost savings possible by outsourcing IT and business process work to lower cost countries, they began to salivate over the thought of bypassing the offshore vendors (and their pesky profit margins) altogether and saving even more money by setting up their own service shops in India.

  • Microsoft to open two mall-sized data centers
    Microsoft on Monday said it is about to flip the switch on what will eventually be more than 1 million square feet of data center space in two facilities, one in Chicago, the other in Dublin, Ireland.

  • Love not the only thing going to South America
    On his recent getaway to Buenos Aires, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was taking a trip more and more U.S. businesses now make. But not for some sort of romantic interlude.

  • Indian outsourcer clocks 35 per cent Asia Pacific growth
    Recession might be badly affecting most sectors of the economy but for Indian outsourcers, it's another story.

  • Recession Strains Outsourcing Partnerships
    Troubled economic times tend to take their toll on relationships. That's no less true in outsourcing partnerships than it is in your personal life. Financial straits have a not-so-subtle way of bringing the flaws in any union to the fore.

  • New CEO and CFO at beleaguered outsourcer Satyam
    Troubled Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services announced the appointment of a new CEO and chief financial officer (CFO) on Tuesday. The two are former executives of Mahindra Group, the business group in the process of acquiring a majority stake in Satyam.

  • Layoffs are increasing demand for tech freelancers
    Analysts say the fast growing demand for contract technology workers doesn't indicate that the economy is turning around -- yet.