The Other Side Of Outsourcing

Forbes.com (Nov 2 2009)

1. Everyone's doing it, so why shouldn't you? They're taking servers from the data center, consolidating some with virtualization, co-locating others through a third party and handing others off to cloud-hosting companies. The pitch from the cloud providers, as well as the software-as-a-service companies, is that no one should be doing what isn't their core competency. And besides, no one has the manpower left to effectively run all these servers or learn the applications as well as the companies that develop them or deal with them every day. For the CIO, it's also a good way to tell the CEO and CFO that you've been able to slash costs and apply those dollars for better purpose (Read Full Article)

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