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IDC: Outsourcing sector needs rescue fund for cloudy customers

2e2 collapse to hit channel, customers, investors

HP inks $1.4bn outsourcing deal with energy firm E.ON

CIO delighted to see back of 1,100 IT bods

Outsourcing goes inside

Indian prison offers offshoring services

CGI Group beds Logica in £1.7bn cash deal

Shares leap 64% at news of outsourcing nuptials

Cloud vs In-House

Whitepaper: Top considerations and concerns for in-house hosting

Winning outsourcing strategies

Whitepaper: How to increase value and reduce risk

Embrace the new era of data center and cloud services

Whitepaper: trends to future proof your data
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Outsourcing kingpin hands $2bn to Indian education charity

The boss of Indian offshorer Wipro Ltd, Azim Premji, is handing about $2bn to his own charitable foundation. The exact amount depends on share prices; Premji is transferring 213 million equity shares in Wipro Ltd to the Azim Premji Foundation over the next few days. The move will be completed by 7 December. The charity, which …

Serco throws US in the clink for wrecking cash targets

Outsourcing behemoth Serco missed its targets for the first half of this year as "challenging" US conditions weighed down revenue. The IT company, which runs prison services in Britain and air traffic centres around the world, was still hoping in May to achieve six per cent growth in sales year-on-year for the first half of 2012 …
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Outsourcing suddenly less popular

Potential savings don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy downturn

About to outsource your IT? Read this first

Some of you just might be changing suppliers soon
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Financial firms face tax bill on outsourcing arrangements

Banks, insurance companies and other financial services providers who outsource administrative functions abroad could be hit by changes to the VAT rules coming into force on 1st January 2010. Under current rules, where services are provided by one business to another, the place of supply for VAT purposes is generally deemed to …
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Serco close to flogging UK defence nuke tech biz

IT outsourcing monster Serco is locked in talks with engineering consultancy and project management services outfit Amec to sell its Technical Consulting Services biz. The unit provides consulting and project services including IT to the UK civil and defence nuclear markets, turning over in the region of £70m last year. Cost- …

Capita's top brass bags 20% rise - as IT bods shiver in wage freeze

Staff and bosses locked in salary talks for 2013

NHS IT bods 'walk out' in pay row with crashed UK tech giant 2e2

Outsourcer's collapse hits hospital tech dept, claim insiders

Outsourcing prices on the wane, says Gartner

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TfL tosses another $33m at CSC

Outsourcing extension tacks another 27 months onto contract

Logica's UK order book crashes by 80 per cent

So sorry we did too well last year

Computacenter profits tumble after German 'stumble'

Flat revs, but still divvies out £75m to shareholders

IBM and Somerset council in tiff over South West One venture

Blues for Big Blue's blue-light IT setup

Cautious Brits less likely than US firms to puff on clouds - survey

'The UK attitude is it is inherently less safe with a third party'
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What did Capita ITS staff get for Xmas? Elf 'n' safety training

Capita IT Services boss Peter Hands has handed his staff a joyful end-of-year gift: an order to complete about a dozen mandatory training courses by 31 December. The big cheese's memo caps off a year in which Capita froze bonuses and pay rises, threatened to outsource jobs to India, and went head to head with Unite over …

Opinion

Alexandre Mesguich

Cloud, virtualisation, mobile tech require fatter pipes

Joe Fay

Server boss comes to London, become hostage to fortune
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Tim Ayling

Er, what does that mean? Anything you want it to

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