outsourcing & subcontracting

Blog Post

10 things to consider when venturing out on your own

November 9, 2011 11:59am PST

Walking away from a regular paycheck to join the ranks of the self-employed requires a huge leap of faith -- and quite a bit more.

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Blog Post

Why did you become an IT consultant?

November 3, 2011 5:33pm PDT

Learn what motivated Chip Camden to start his independent consulting business 20 years ago, and then tell the community what factors contributed to your choice to become an IT consultant.

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White Papers

An Efficient and Secure Protocol for Ensuring Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing

November 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Currently, there has been an increasing trend in outsourcing data to remote cloud, where the people outsource their data at Cloud Service Provider(CSP) who offers huge storage space with low cost....

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Science Issues

Whitepapers

How cloud adds strategy to IT outsourcing

October 25, 2011 12:00am PDT

As businesses feel the pressure from the recent recession, they look again to cut costs through outsourcing of their IT operations. Cloud computing can help not just with costs, but it can also...

Provided by: SAVVIS

Blog Post

What IT can learn from one reality show

October 19, 2011 7:11am PDT

In the show Kitchen Nightmares, Chef Gordon Ramsay visits a struggling restaurant and corrects its problems. Could some of the steps he takes be used in your IT shop?

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Whitepapers

The New CIO Agenda: Intel Cloud Computing Insights 2011

October 11, 2011 12:00am PDT

This report identifies successful cloud opportunities, strategies, and best practices, and include insights from Intel's own IT group and others that have deep experience with enterprise clouds,...

Provided by: Intel Corporation

Blog Post

Digital forensics: The science behind 'who done it'

October 10, 2011 6:36am PDT

Forensics comes of the Latin word "forens" -- "belonging to the public". Michael Kassner decided to find out what that means in the digital world.

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White Papers

Designing a Secure Storage Repository for Sharing Scientific Datasets Using Public Clouds

September 27, 2011 12:00am PDT

As Cloud platforms gain increasing traction among scientific and business communities for outsourcing storage, computing and content delivery, there is also growing concern about the associated...

Provided by: University of Southern California

White Papers

Offsite hosting helps avoid risky business

September 14, 2011 12:00am PDT

Are you hosting your entire small business operation on one site? If your server breaks down, what's your contingency plan? Once thought to be a safe way to control your business, in-house hosting...

Provided by: Eclipse

Blog Post

When to apply the shut up strategy

September 6, 2011 12:07pm PDT

Before offering clients your unsolicited opinions, you should consider whether holding your tongue might be necessary in order to maintain a good client relationship.

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White Papers

Secure and Verifiable Outsourcing of Large-Scale Biometric Computations

August 31, 2011 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing services are becoming prevalent and readily available today, bringing to one economies of scale and making large scale computation feasible. Security and privacy considerations,...

Provided by: University of Notre Dame

Blog Post

10 questions for aspiring independent consultants

August 24, 2011 8:55pm PDT

Erik Eckel poses 10 questions that will help technology professionals determine if IT consulting is the right career path for them.

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White Papers

Dynamic Audit Services for Outsourced Storages in Clouds

August 18, 2011 12:00am PDT

In this paper, the authors propose a dynamic audit service for verifying the integrity of an untrusted and outsourced storage. Their audit service is constructed based on the techniques, fragment...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Blog Post

Embrace the cloud and hosted services... with some rules

August 8, 2011 4:10am PDT

Scott Lowe shares some of the steps his organization takes when they research initiatives for individual units.

Blog Post

Outsourcing and offshoring, revisited

August 1, 2011 9:21am PDT

Patrick Gray discusses the comments that he received after writing about his fondness for outsourcing and offshoring.

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Blog Post

Why I love offshoring and outsourcing

July 26, 2011 5:23am PDT

Most IT employees look at offshoring and outsourcing with begrudging acceptance to thinly veiled (or outright) xenophobia, but Patrick Gray believes they have made the IT profession stronger and...

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Case Studies

Call Center Services Provider Guarantees 99.999 Percent Uptime Assurance for Its SaaS Platform

July 13, 2011 12:00am PDT

The economy has accelerated many companies' willingness to outsource applications to control costs and gain flexibility. Despite perceived risks, even critical applications are becoming candidates...

Provided by: Stratus Technologies

Blog Post

Are you pouring your consulting fees into your gas tank?

July 4, 2011 11:04am PDT

The rising gasoline prices in the U.S. is causing some consultants to think about how to account for these costs in their billing. Let us know if and how you're accounting for the high cost of fuel.

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White Papers

Twin Clouds: Secure Cloud Computing With Low Latency

June 15, 2011 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing promises a cost effective enabling technology to outsource storage and massively parallel computations. However, existing approaches for provably secure outsourcing of data and...

Provided by: Technische Universitat Darmstadt

Blog Post

Never assume engineers have mastered all the fundamentals

June 10, 2011 9:47am PDT

Erik Eckel argues that it's unreasonable to assume every technician can master the vast technologies consultancies are commonly tasked to support. Read his suggestions for building specific areas...

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