Tag: IT

  • Microsoft: Small Business to Increase IT Spending

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Microsoft released the results of its 2010 SMB/Partner Insight Report, which focuses on small to medium-size businesses and their IT spending plans for the year. In the study, based on a survey of Microsoft Small Business Specialist partners, 63 percent of respondents predicted their SMB customers will spend more on IT in 2010, up from… Read more

  • Mezeo Takes its IT Service Provider Cloud Platform to Enterprise

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    Mezeo Software, a relative newcomer on the cloud computing scene, April 15 introduced a new version of its private-cloud storage platform for the enterprise. The company made the announcement at Storage Networking World in Orlando, Fla., which ends today. The Houston-based startup originally launched its cloud software in December 2008 specifically for the IT service… Read more

  • Infosys Gets Microsoft Internal IT Management Outsourcing Deal

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    Microsoft’s internal IT services have been outsourced to India-based Infosys, which plans on providing the company with help desk, desk-side services, and infrastructure and application support through multiple centers worldwide. “Infosys demonstrated that it understood our transformational goals by introducing a flexible and innovative end-to-end approach to manage our support infrastructure,” Jim BuBois, general manager… Read more

  • Federal IT Spending to Rise

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    Professional services, systems integrators, security professionals, health IT software companies and large-scale technology service providers all stand to benefit from information technology  spending in fiscal year 2011 and beyond, according to upcoming annual research on government spending. The latest figures on IT budget requests for the federal government are $79.4 billion for fiscal year 2011,… Read more

  • Technology Contract Gigs Driving IT Jobs Recovery

    Ericka Chickowski

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    A new report shows that even as unemployment held the line at 9.7 percent in March, online contract work is booming, with some pockets of IT showing a 29 percent year-over-year increase in available gigs. Compiled by the online talent marketplace company Elance, the Elance Online Talent Report examined the contract bookings for the first… Read more

  • IT Averse to the Cloud Reactive to Other Risks

    IT Averse to the Cloud Reactive to Other Risks

    Leah Gabriel Nurik

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    IT Averse to the Cloud Reactive to Other Risks Reactive Cloud The survey, conducted by ISACA, entitled “2010 ISACA IT Risk/Reward Barometer,” finds that many IT organizations are reluctant to take on the risks of cloud computing. And when IT organizations do address risk in general, it is often done reactive to regulation, rather than… Read more