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Outsourcing Statistics That Show Bright Prospects

With the invention and expansion of Internet and digital technology in recent years, the services provided by developing countries such as India and the Philippines have become accessible to multinational companies based in Western countries such as Canada and the United States. Moving to the Future Outsourcing statistics revealed that the entire industry will probably [...]

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Qualium Systems Participated in World’s Largest Computer Games Trade Fair

Gamers and tech geeks from around the world are gathering in Cologne, Germany, this week for Europe’s largest video games and entertainment convention. Gamescom is a trade fair for video games held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is organized by the Federal Association of Interactive Entertainment Software. It is used [...]

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Tele2 Russia to Enhance Mobile Data Experience with Citrix ByteMobile

Citrix today announced that Tele2 Russia, a leading European mobile operator serving more than 21.5 million subscribers in 37 regions, has selected its ByteMobile integrated traffic management platform for mobile video and web optimization. This deployment will enable Tele2 Russia to deliver faster internet and multimedia services and improve subscriber quality of experience for mobile [...]

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Russian Tech Giants Aim to Replicate Success Abroad

The gleaming, glass-fronted building towers over its more traditional neighbours in this quiet street in central Moscow. But it is not just Yandex’s headquarters that stand out. Although the website is little known outside Russia, within the country’s borders it is a giant. It has become the nation’s most popular search engine, leaving Google trailing [...]

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Fewer Outsourcing Contracts Going Around, Says Research Firm

The number of new IT and business process outsourcing contracts worldwide dropped by 20 percent to 411 in the second quarter from 516 in the same quarter a year ago, with average contract values also sliding, a research firm said. “The market is growing, but the pace of growth is slowing down,” said Salil Dani, [...]

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Cloud Service Providers Challenge Traditional IT Outsourcing

Global IT services spending should reach more than $251 billion dollars this year, up 2.1 percent from 2011, according to Gartner’s latest IT outsourcing forecast. Adjusting for currency changes, that’s actually around a 4.1 percent increase in spending–about the same level of growth as the year prior, according to Gartner research director Bryan Britz. But [...]

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IT Outsourcing Mega-Deals Slated for the Scrap Heap

There is a quiet revolution in the technology corridors of some of the world’s largest corporations. Traditional five-year, outsourcing mega-deals – whereby companies delegate the running of information technology (IT) functions to a third party – look set for extinction. The reason is a pressing need for more flexible, short-term arrangements from newer, nimbler players [...]

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Gartner: Worldwide IT Outsourcing Services Spending to Cross $251 Billion in 2012

According to the latest outlook by Gartner Inc., worldwide spending for IT outsourcing (ITO) services is on pace to reach $251.7 billion in 2012, a 2.1% increase from 2011 spending of $246.6 billion. The fastest-growing segment within the ITO market is cloud compute services, which is part of the cloud-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) [...]

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‘Shadow IT’ on the Rise in Businesses

Business divisions are bypassing the IT department, making their own decisions to buy cloud-based application services or use mobile devices, raising the specter of so-called “shadow IT” that’s outside the knowledge or control of the CIO and the IT staff. “The data is suddenly not in the organization anymore,” says Chris Curran, principal for technology [...]

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EPAM & Hotels.com Reaffirm EPAM’s Status as a Strategic Delivery Partner for Hotels.com

EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM), a global software engineering and IT Outsourcing (ITO) provider with development centers across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and Hotels.com today reaffirmed EPAM’s status as a Hotels.com® strategic delivery partner. Working alongside Hotels.com, EPAM is one of the few selected partners that provides engineering services for the Hotels.com brand. Since [...]

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