Investigating Outsourcing

January 2012

• Are UK IT students better off being trained in India?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Jan 2012

Indian IT giant Wipro could give UK IT students training to close a perceived shortcoming in IT and engineering training in the UK.According to The Telegraph Wipro chairman Azim Premji has offered ...

• Smart metering - the next big waste of money or venerable project?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Jan 2012

Government plans to give businesses and consumers the ability to better understand and then reduce their energy consumption through smart metering has put another large IT project in the national ...

• Outsourcing growing strongly despite poor economic conditions

  Kathleen Hall - TechTarget 25 Jan 2012

It is always said that IT outsourcing does well in both depressed as well as-vibrant economic conditions. Outsourcing service providers have been as bullish as ever despite customers cutting IT ...

• Shared services and outsourcing taking its toll on public sector IT jobs

  Kathleen Hall - TechTarget 24 Jan 2012

Public sector IT professionals have had a bad couple of years. Government spending cuts have hit them really hard. Local government IT workers in particular.Socitm has just announced that last year ...

• Big data, cloud, social and mobility to be big trends in 2012

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 Jan 2012

I asked earlier this month for people's predictions for IT and outsourcing in 2012. Here is the latest response I have received. It comes from Sanjiv Gossain, who is UK head of Indian service ...

• Why should I study computer science when the jobs go offshore?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 12 Jan 2012

The government has this week scrapped the current IT curriculum. It will replace it with more focus on the "rigorous" teaching of computer science and programming subjects.This will replace a ...

• Cloud security breach inevitable as businesses underestimate security due diligence

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 09 Jan 2012

Expanding on my previous blog about a prediction of a major cloud computing security breach this year I have had a couple of people contact me to add their views to the debate.With more and more IT ...

• Huge cloud computing data breach waiting to happen

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 06 Jan 2012

Here is another prediction for IT outsourcing in 2012.This year promises to be one that will be remembered as the year that outsourcing to the cloud gained significant momentum. But it could also ...

• Is cloud computing becoming an awkward teenager that needs orchestration?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 05 Jan 2012

I asked for predictions about the IT outsourcing industry earlier this week and have begun to get some responses. Terry Walby, managing director at IPsoft, thinks 2012 will see cloud computing ...

• Controversial predictions for IT and outsourcing in 2012

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 04 Jan 2012

I blogged earlier this week asking readers for their predictions for the year ahead in IT outsourcing. I have had some interesting predictions so I will publish some over the next few days.Today ...

• What's in store for IT outsourcing in 2012?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 03 Jan 2012

The global economy is creating an atmosphere of uncertainty in the IT outsourcing sector, but what should we expect in 2012?This time last year there was a little more confidence about growth in ...