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UST Global opens new centre in Manila

Plans to hire 1,000 IT Professionals in next 12 months

Xerox completes $6.4bn acquisition of ACS

Combination to create $22m global firm for business process and document management

Oracle to acquire SOA management vendor AmberPoint

To strengthen Fusion Middleware SOA capabilities

Ness Technologies inks $11m outsourcing contract with Israel's Ministry of Immigrant Absorption

To operate and maintain the ministry's IT systems including applications, infrastructure systems, communications and workstations

NTT America unveils new virtualisation services

Combines its secure hosting infrastructure with VMware's virtualisation platform

DataArt Forges Strategic Partnership With MP Capital

DataArt, a New York-based software development company, has formed a strategic partnership with MP Capital to deliver technology solutions to the capital markets industry in EMEA.

Q&A with Brett Dawson, CEO of Dimension Data

Brett Dawson, CEO of Dimension Data talks about the IT services firm's vision for providing managed services

Mahindra Satyam wins two multimillion dollar contracts in Brazil

Plans to deploy technology in the enterprise business systems space

NetSuite Q4 revenue increases to $43m

Posts net loss of $6.5m, compared to $4.5m in same period last year

Comments & Opinion

In two minds

Today’s CIOs need to be both cautious pragmatists and innovative risk takers. Janine Milne examines the mix of sometimes contradictory skills needed to be a successful CIO.

Cloudy skies?

Jason Stamper looks beyond the ‘cloud computing’ hype to ask what it really is, and just as crucially, what it is not.

London 2012 IT: No Second Chances

15,000 athletes, 22,000 journalists, 70,000 volunteers and 94 Olympic venues. 3,500 technology specialists, 8,000 computers, a fixed deadline and the world watching. What could possibly go wrong? Jason Stamper reports.

Thought Leaders: running IT as a business

This white paper was written by Professor Paul P Tallon of the Sellinger School of Business and Management, Loyola College, Baltimore, for CBR on behalf of GlassHouse Technologies. It outlines the steps companies can take to treat storage as a service-orientated business, moving IT from being a cost centre to a value centre.

CBR Thought Leaders: IT in a Cold Climate

Is paring IT investment back to the bone the best strategy for surviving the downturn? Dr Richard Williams argues the case against.

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