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The president of Wipro’s datacentre outsourcing practice , Sameer Kishore, said that \”The addition of a datacentre in Europe represents an important milestone in Wirpo’s growth strategy. The Meerbusch facility will enable Wipro to extend its capabilities to the European market and strengthen the company\’s ability to compete for global outsourcing opportunities.\” Recently it was […]

Peter Solderitsch, a software engineer at Google, said that \”Writing a document collaboratively in Google Docs is like playing a team sport. Its one thing to see your co-editors\’ cursors and know where they are. But to really work well together, it helps to know what they\’re about to do. Collaborative highlighting makes it easier […]

Ed Thomas, senior Director at Ovum, said that “The total contract value of deals is up on the first half of 2009. There have been some big deals out there, mainly in the public sector in the UK. We\’ve seen big deals such as Desktop 21 awarded by the UK government to Fujitsu, Atos and […]

The Director of convergence and network strategy at Star, Hugo Harber, said that \”The decision not to conduct the review creates an imbalance. If you\’re running a small network, and you\’re not one of the big two (British Telecom and Virgin Media), then it\’s going to cost you more to run fibre to a local […]

The Ofcom director of Wales, Rhodri Williams, said that \”It’s good to see that the digital divide between Wales and the UK as a whole is narrowing. Communications services are rapidly becoming a necessity rather than a luxury for Welsh consumers and businesses in all parts of Wales. Even though our report indicates that there […]

Research Director at Gartner, Kenneth Brant, said that \”We are advising our technology provider clients to prepare business plans for 2011 on the basis of our most-likely scenario for enterprise IT spending growth – 3.5%. However, they should act now to develop contingencies to mitigate the risk of zero growth in 2011, a scenario that […]

Xenios Thrasyvoulou, Chief Executive of PeoplePerHour.com, has said that \”The last decade has seen a boom in remote freelance working, facilitated by the internet. This has been led by the IT industry, which lends itself to freelancing. Our survey findings suggest that the importance of IT industry to the freelance economy is set to grow.\” […]

Edward Thomas, a senior analyst at Ovum, said that \”In the past the government struggled because of the political implications of outsourcing to India, but as it looks at costs with greater scrutiny I wouldn\’t be surprised if we start seeing more contracts coming from this area. Since the recession, companies have become more wary […]

The CIXs Project Leader, Richard Jones, said in 2007 that \”the Department of Work and Pensions will be the provider of the CISx service for all departments and, alongside HM Revenue and Customs and IPS, influence its direction and fund its development. This is a groundbreaking and complex delivery, however we are committed to developing […]

Charles Smulders, managing Vice President at Gartner said that \”Microsoft will support Windows XP for four more years. With most migrations not starting until the fourth quarter of 2010 at the earliest, and PC hardware replacement cycles typically running at four to five years, most organisations will not be able to migrate to Windows 7 […]