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Preparing for Cloud Computing: The Managed Services Revolution by CA
communication technology (ICT) outsourcing for a Web-enabled world and it can encompass many different outsourcing models, from traditional managed and hosted applications to the emerging software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach, where customers can consume packaged applications on a pay-as-you-go basis. This paper explores the drivers for cloud computing...
Total Economic Impact Of VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - Financial Services Industry by VMware, Inc.
Find out how a VMware financial service customer used VMware® View™ 3, formerly VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, to reduce costs, free up office space and increase worker productivity in its remote offices. In January 2008, VMware commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential ROI that...
E-Guide: Network Management and Applications Performance Services by Alcatel-Lucent
are becoming comfortable with the concept of outsourcing tactical IT functions to a trusted third party while they maintain internal control of strategic technology initiatives. This has produced a sharp up-tick in demand for managed technology services. This is a tremendous opportunity for telecom service providers with the underlying technology,...
The Enterprise Network Partner - Management and Transformation by Alcatel-Lucent
39;s businesses. Enterprises are increasingly outsourcing voice and data network management and transformation to equipment vendors, systems integrators, and managed service providers. A knowledgeable global communications solution provider can offer the managed services needed to efficiently and cost effectively administer the enterprise network from end...
Channel Success Stories: Virtualization
Case Study: Vitale Caturano by Dell PartnerDirect and Intel
today regarding virtualization, outsourcing services, and most importantly, business partnerships.

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The Reality Facing the Mainframe World by Acxiom Corporation
support; or taking advantage of various outsourcing options...
Raging Wire & Critical Power Competency Center by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
Solutions Inc. (RES), an information technology outsourcing provider for large, data-intensive Fortune 1000 enterprise companies. Founded in 2000, RagingWire specializes in large-scale, high density data centers, mission-critical, back-office IT services and solutions, and shared service sourcing as a strategic enabler to customers. Currently, the company owns and...
Making Your Business Disaster Ready with Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
to recover on dissimilar equipment, or outsourcing to discount DR centers risk insufficient disaster protection in terms of application coverage, acceptable downtime, and reliability of recovery.

This compromise is not necessary. In this paper we will discuss how to make disaster recovery cost effective with virtual infrastructure...
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Negotiating a successful data center outsourcing arrangement by Brad Peterson
Center Decisions Spring 2005 in New York.

Data center outsourcing can be a way to save money, improve service and focus on your core business. However, it can also be a way to increase costs, lose control of your company's central nervous system and increase business risk. Structuring and negotiating the right outsourcing deal can make the difference.

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Mainframe New Year's resolutions by Robert Crawford, Contributor

"We resolve to understand the true costs of offshore outsourcing."

On the surface, offshore outsourcing sounds like a good deal for the unabashedly avaricious who can save a lot of money. Companies with purer motives like to use consultants to manage the ebb and flow of project staffing while keeping the number of employees constant. But a deeper look... More...

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After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
based Transitive Corp., a privately held technology company whose translation software enables applications written for one kind of CPU and operating system (OS) to run on various combinations of CPU and OS without modifying the source code or binaries. Terms of the deal have not been announced.

IBM already uses Transitive technology as the basis of its... More...

CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
At CA World 2008 in Las Vegas this week, software giantCA announced its Mainframe 2.0 iniative, which aims to untangle the complexity of mainframe management.

Chris O'Malley, the head of CA's mainframe business unit, said Mainframe 2.0 strives to make its mainframe management software easier to use for less... More...

Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
is new to mainframe technology. Jim Porell, the chief architect of IBM System z software, said some financial firms in Japan, China and Hong Kong have just begun to build their infrastructure and didn't have legacy z/OS mainframes but still want to consolidate Linux servers onto big iron.

Technology benefits of combining z/OS and Linux
Even though IBM has... More...