At the beginning of each year, we survey Morrison & Foerster’s Global Sourcing Group lawyers in Asia, Europe, and the United States regarding the current state of the world’s outsourcing market and emerging trends likely to shape that market over the next twelve months. 

Nearly 95 percent of organisations buy, provide or both buy and provide outsourced services and functions, in which they face inherent risks created by new and unforeseen challenges. 

EquaTerra is pleased to offer to Computer Weekly readers a custom, European focused edition of the results from its 2Q10 EquaTerra global business and information technology (IT) services Pulse survey. 

CIOs are more confident of securing technology budget increases than at any time in the last five years, according to the CIO Technology Survey 2012. 

While some larger organizations continue to manage internal data center, many business managers are able to increase service levels, cover more users, and lower response times by outsourcing their out-dated server farms to third-party data centers and cloud computing providers. This white paper will define data centers and explore cloud networking. 

Outsourcing is the quest to offload either commodity or very specialized activities, so that staff can focus on work that truly adds value to the business. 

In summary, the reader isencouraged to consider the evidence from the survey resultsand to then draw their own conclusions. 

Read this case study to learn how MAXIMUS, a health and human services business process outsourcing provider, leveraged change and configuration management software to address their challenges associated with operating their mission critical business processes. 

Adding a re-hosting project to outsourcing allows for a further reduction in cost. Watch this 2-minute video about the Cedacri Group’s mainframe modernization experience  to learn about the cost and performance advantages of a re-hosting strategy as well as how to ensure its success. 

Moving your messaging application to the cloud can help you lower TCO and increase integration by eliminating the need to maintain an in-house email system. Learn how you can enjoy a full suite of email, calendaring, sharing and document management abilities on any desktop or operating system with a cloud-based platform. 

Watch this brief video about the Cedacri Group’s mainframe modernization experience  to learn about the cost and performance advantages of a re-hosting strategy as well as how to ensure its success. 

IT operations are evolving in a number of ways. Some of the obvious changes include virtualization and the cloud. However, there are 5 less obvious trends that are changing the dynamics of IT operations, each of which is explained in this white paper.