Bringing IT Back Home: 10 Prime Locations for Onshore Outsourcing

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	Bringing IT Back Home: 10 Prime Locations for Onshore Outsourcing As offshore outsourcing grows more complex and costly, American IT departments are increasingly turning to onshore providers to procure IT services. Here are 10 popular destinations for IT outsourcing in the U.S. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Quest Software, Inc. Free Trial: Foglight® User Experience Monitor Improve and optimize website availability and performance with the Foglight Experience Monitor appliance. You'll capture every web session to quickly find and fix problems. See how it maximizes your website availability and response time – try it for free for 30 days. Click to continue In this Issue Comcast rolls out metro Ethernet Microsoft details cloud ops Microsoft deepens Bing's use of Facebook data HP picks USB 3.0 over Intel's Thunderbolt for desktops Innovation smackdown: Tim Berners-Lee vs. Leo Apotheker The Verdict: Either OpenFlow Matters a Lot, or Not at All Open source not just mainstream, it's mainstreamier Cool Stuff about Cisco MediaNet WHITE PAPER: BMC Software A Cost-Effective Solution for ITSM If you're tired of the costly upgrades and difficult implementations other vendors put you through, BMC Remedy OnDemand offers an alternative. It can be implemented in days and significantly lower overall IT Service Management costs. Read the white paper to learn more about BMC Remedy OnDemand. Read More Today! Comcast rolls out metro Ethernet Comcast is expanding its services to medium-sized businesses by introducing metro Ethernet connections at up to 10-Gigabit speed, launching Monday in more than 20 U.S. cities. Read More Microsoft details cloud ops Microsoft kicked off its annual TechEd conference Monday much the way it did last year's, heavily touting cloud computing as a more efficient way for businesses to run IT operations. This year, however, company executives provided more details about how organizations can actually use cloud computing day-to-day. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies Tips for Safer P2V Migration Join this webcast, Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 1:00 PM EDT, to learn the best practices for post implementation of virtualized servers in your environment. Discover what challenges to look out for and how to prepare to avoid pitfalls ensuring total protection for your systems, applications and data. Learn More Microsoft deepens Bing's use of Facebook data Microsoft has incorporated more Facebook data into its Bing search results, increasing the competition around social search with Google, whose level of access to Facebook data is not as deep. Read More HP picks USB 3.0 over Intel's Thunderbolt for desktops Hewlett-Packard considered using Intel's Thunderbolt interconnect in new desktop PCs announced Monday, but is sticking with USB 3.0 because of wider support, a company official said. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier Edition Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier edition provides essential performance and efficiency increases for power workstation users as well as all the features of the Professional edition. Learn more! Innovation smackdown: Tim Berners-Lee vs. Leo Apotheker Tim Berners-Lee watches as the Web will officially hit adulthood this coming Christmas, which will mark 21 years since the computer scientist first initiated communications between an HTTP client and a Web server. Leo Apotheker came into an unstable situation at HP when he took over as CEO. With Mark Hurd's departure for questionable activity, Apotheker has been a calming influence. Which should win? Vote now. Read More The Verdict: Either OpenFlow Matters a Lot, or Not at All Unsurprisingly, the opinions on OpenFlow from the vendors at Interop were all over the map. However, since I did ask a bunch of people at the show about OpenFlow, I figure it's worth a post to summarize some of the more interesting responses. Read More Open source not just mainstream, it's mainstreamier I had to chuckle when I saw the news release headline "Open Source Now Mainstream," because that's been the theme of every open source conference I've covered for the last five years. Read More Cool Stuff about Cisco MediaNet Out of the stuff I got to mess around with, I just fell tail over tea kettle with Cisco MediaNet. When TechWiseTV would be taking time to set up shots, waiting for guest or even after the floor closed, I just couldn't keep my hands off of MediaNet. Read More
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