When a practicing physician and a PhD in biochemistry/molecular genetics decides to co-found a new company, it wouldn’t be amiss to expect that it will operate in the healthcare industry. Jamison Feramisco is co-founder of DermaLink, a secure web and mobile application that enables remote diagnosis of dermatology cases, dramatically reducing wait times for patients [...]

When asked about current ITO infrastructure challenges, industry experts opened the floodgates, revealing that they’ve been inundated by a tsunami of customer demands for 24/7 IT infrastructure speed and agility. “The consumer market and increased awareness of sourcing have triggered the expectation of 100 percent availability of infrastructure services, as well as uniform speed,” remarks [...]

At PPG Industries the IT infrastructure group funds each IT department. It used a home-grown, internal system to determine its IT costs. “It wasn’t a black hole, but it wasn’t detailed enough,” says Denise Vay, senior IT finance manager. And it was costly to maintain. The infrastructure group was spending a lot of time trying [...]

It can happen in almost any relationship. You’re happy enough, but as the years go by, you get a little restless. All of a sudden, you’re asking yourself, “is this really all there is?” Well, that’s exactly what’s happening with applications outsourcing. While it’s true, there are some wide-eyed newbies still enamored by the efficiencies [...]

We’ve seen how data can deliver insights in the hands of people like Hans Rosling who has been listed amongst the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 by Time magazine. Rosling has shown the history of 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 data points. He presents data with the urgency of [...]

If you look back on the transforming world of IT over the past few years, it’s easy to chart the stages. First, there was denial that anything needed to change. Then came the fear of cloud and the perceived lack of control associated with this agile, new delivery model. As we move to 2013, we [...]

CIOs: Your job description has ramped up. As the organization’s IT flag bearer, you are now responsible for: – The technological identity of the organization – All mission-critical enterprise applications – Up-time availability – Prioritization of application needs – ‘Bring Your Own’ demands – Mobility initiatives – Keeping everyone happy! You know there is little [...]

The Cloud Buyer’s Guide is a reference tool for sourcing professionals and IT management designed to simplify cloud economics and provide objective guidelines for understanding the pricing, terms and conditions that differentiate cloud providers. Effective sourcing of multiple delivery vectors ensures optimal use of IT resources, and equally important, enables the business and agency to [...]

The Cloud Buyer’s Guide is a reference tool for sourcing professionals and IT management designed to simplify cloud economics and provide objective guidelines for understanding the pricing, terms and conditions that differentiate cloud providers. Effective sourcing of multiple delivery vectors ensures optimal use of IT resources, and equally important, enables the business and agency to [...]

The high-level benefits of IT outsourcing are fairly well known within the IT industry. Even so, many clients do not fully understand “why” and “how” an outsourcing relationship can provide these potential benefits. Furthermore, those that do understand the benefits may not understand the risks that must be managed in order to achieve these benefits. [...]