• Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

  By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

  During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

• Tech guns for hire: 5 places to find skilled IT contractors

  By Logan Kugler | 22 May, 2012 20:08

  Even for organizations with a stellar full-time IT staff, situations often arise where temporary outside help is needed. A big Web project might demand a few extra programmers to meet a tough deadline, for example, or a rollout of tools to support a sales force bent on capturing a broader market may require expertise not available in-house.

• Medical firm avoids Exchange nightmare with outside help

  By Tim Greene | 22 May, 2012 05:31

  International medical vendor Mediq was expanding in a big way by acquisition and needed a standard email platform across its business, but the project's cost and the complexity of doing it alone was so daunting that the company called on outside help that costs it less in the long run.

• IT outsourcing: Will CIOs reclaim their power?

  By Stephanie Overby | 22 May, 2012 00:36

  IT outsourcing has always been a double-edged sword for CIOs. What starts out as a cure for IT's ills always seems to cause more headaches down the road.

• Outsourcing Allows Utility to Refocus IT

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 23:44

  Consumers Energy has hired an outsourcer to take over some of its day-to-day IT operations, and it hopes the move will allow its own data center workers to focus on projects that directly impact its bottom line.

• Analysis: Massive layoffs at HP make for IT outsourcing identity crisis

  By Stephanie Overby | 24 May, 2012 19:14

  It's been more than three years since HP acquired IT services provider EDS, and the long-term direction of its bigger - if not better - outsourcing business is no more clear than it was on the day the deal closed.

• From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation

  By Johna Till Johnson | 23 April, 2012 21:32

  IT as we know it is over.

• Cloud drives speech recognition forward for Microsoft

  By Nancy Gohring | 14 December, 2010 06:43

  For years, using voice recognition technology on phones or other devices has been a novelty -- something people try once but never again, usually because it works so poorly. But recent developments, including harnessing the computational power of the cloud, have made it more usable and will make it even better in the near future, according to Microsoft.

• Don't mess with Texas: Lessons from IT outsourcing disasters

  By Stephanie Overby | 05 August, 2010 05:04

  Two weeks ago, the CIO of Texas penned a seven-page letter outlining the chronic failures of the state's nearly four-year outsourcing relationship - a deal the Texas governor had briefly suspended in 2008 citing service delivery problems that he said put the state's agencies in danger.

• IT Outsourcing Activity Remains Sluggish in 2010

  By Stephanie Overby | 23 July, 2010 00:59

  The outlook for the IT outsourcing market is not unlike the outlook for the economy as a whole: It's "unusually uncertain," to use U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's words.

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