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Over the years, Intel has made a habit of building plants in relatively remote locations, New Mexico and Arizona among them. So what happens when the tech-savvy employees want high-speed Internet access at home? Its not pretty, judging from the kind of pain that Intel CEO Craig Barrett has been feeling. When eWEEK Editor in […]

You dont hear many people talking about ASPs, or application service providers, except in the past tense. Plenty of those ASPs bloomed and wilted with the dot-com boom and bust, but what those vendors did—provide applications on demand—is alive and well and poised for a rebound. This time, though, you might want to call it […]

Intel Corp. has set the pace in the microprocessor industry, cranking out chips that operate at breakneck computing speeds. So when the company, under the direction of CEO Craig Barrett, began steering away from its speed-fiend image and toward multicore and partitioned designs, people took notice. For some, it was inevitable, as Intel had been […]

You decide to offshore development of a new application, sold on the promise of saving, conservatively, 30 percent compared with doing it yourself. Even if you fall short of that goal, you reason, youre still significantly ahead of the game. Youll achieve your goal only if you can effectively manage the relationship with your offshore […]

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. is seeking to grow beyond its core markets of health care and financial services outsourcing and move toward complex application development and high-end business process outsourcing. Lakshmi Narayanan, who was named president and CEO of the Teaneck, N.J., company early this year, is guiding that initiative. Narayanan discussed Cognizants approach to […]

“We believe managing our own technology infrastructure is best for the long-term growth and success of our company as well as our shareholders.” There. Thats what Austin Adams, JPMorgan Chases CIO, said in a statement earlier this month announcing the end of the giant financial institutions $5 billion, seven-year outsourcing deal with IBM, signed late […]

CHICAGO—IT still does matter. And it will continue to matter for the foreseeable future. Those messages resounded strongly at the annual Symposium of the Society for Information Management here this week. The views were provoked by the message of opening night guest speaker Nicholas G. Carr, author of the recently published book “Does IT Matter?” […]

Dude, youre getting an Enterprise Command Center! Thats probably a line youll never hear, but if you run a data center in China with lots of Dell equipment, thats exactly what you will be getting. If you run a Dell-centric data center in the United States, youve already got one, even if you dont realize […]

Following the disastrous outages of 1999, online auction company eBay Inc. launched an overhaul of its IT infrastructure, rebuilding its data centers around a grid-type architecture and rewriting its applications in Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. That process was completed in July. Now Marty Abbott, senior vice president of technology, is tasked with maintaining uptime […]

Youre troubled by the idea of outsourcing and would like to be better informed? Forty-year industry veteran Edward Yourdon has written a book, “Outsource: Competing in the Global Productivity Race,” to be published by Prentice Hall PTR in October that covers the A-to-Z of the topic. Because the book is at once a primer and […]

Everyones always looking for a better deal, arent they? Hey, better deals are closely related to the pursuit of happiness, which is, after all, one of our nations founding principles. So why is it that outsourcers and their customers are always so proud to announce really long deals—deals of seven, eight, even 10 years—that are […]

In Hewlett-Packard Co.s bid to be an enterprise partner on a par with such heavy hitters as IBM Global Services, no deal is more important than its outsourcing contract with consumer goods company The Procter & Gamble Co. One year after HP, of Palo, Alto, Calif., took over P&Gs worldwide IT operations, executives at both […]