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Downturn drives renegotiation Position of strength Haggling Change is good Organisations in many sectors seek to renew the terms in their contractual agreements as they adjust to the economic climate. IT outsourcing is going through a period of major change as the result of an economic downturn of extreme proportions alongside major advances in technology. Tight budgets amid recession and increased service options as a result of new technologies, such as the cloud, mean many IT outsourcing contracts are no longer fit for purpose or the best option available. For example, a bank might have signed a 10-year agreement to outsource its datacentres in 2006; since then, a lot has changed. The financial services crash of 2008 might mean the bank has fewer customers, processes a smaller number of transactions and has less money. At the same time, cloud computing has matured, meaning the bank does not require as much datacentre space and does not need to pay for equipment up front. Retail, manufacturing and travel sectors are all examples of sectors also hit hard by ... Access >>>
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Seeking nirvana: virtualisation without security risk
by Warwick Ashford
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German public sector firm BAG beat data woes with storage virtualisation
by Archana Venkatraman
German Federal Office for Freight Transport - BAG - found a solution to its data management problems in storage virtualisation
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Renegotiating outsourcing contracts to fit new reality
by Karl Flinders
Organisations in many sectors seek to renew the terms in their contractual agreements as they adjust to the economic climate
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Global taskforce for datacentre energy efficiency pick three new metrics
by Archana Venkatraman
In addition to PUE, datacentre operators have three new metrics – Green Energy Coefficient (GEC), Energy Reuse Factor (ERF) and Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE)
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Customer understanding drives investment in big data analytics
by Brian McKenna
Better customer understanding is the main motivation for big data programmes, survey finds
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Vodafone blames southern Europe as revenues plummet 7.4%
by Jennifer Scott
Vodafone reports revenues down 7.4% year-on-year for the first half of the fiscal year, blaming weak markets in southern Europe for the drop
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German public sector firm BAG beat data woes with storage virtualisation
by Archana Venkatraman
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