Outsourcing: Gopinathan Padmanabhan, Executive VP and Head of Global Delivery, MPhasiS (Part 1)

Two former Citibank executives came up with the idea for MPhasiS in 1999. A merger between U.S.-based IT consulting company MphasiS Corporation and the Indian IT services company BFL Software Limited in June 2000 produced MPhasiS Limited, a global company that provides business process outsourcing services as well as applications and infrastructure services. One of

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2012: Castle Ink, Greenlawn, New York

Like it or not, printing (and maintaining a printer) is a fact of life in business, and it’s always nice to find a single place to both recycle old cartridges and buy new ones. Castle Ink  retails recycled printer ink cartridges and laser toner for printers from at least seven different companies, including Lexmark, HP,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ken Stephens, Senior Vice-President of Cloud Services, Xerox (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Even within the IT portion, it sounds like I’m hearing infrastructure as a service as the organizing principle. Ken Stephens: Yes. It’s a staple. You have to do that, and we do that. SM: What gaps do you see in the market right now?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: As far as your own infrastructure is concerned, you’re heavily into this hosting and colocation business. What is going on on the side of the hardware vendors or the infrastructure vendors, so to speak, that you buy from? What are they providing for you? Is this a topic that you can discuss at

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mal Postings, CTO, IT Advisory, Ernst & Young (Part 5)

SM: What you’re talking about is the consumerization of technology and the fact there are so many devices coming into the enterprise [world]. Will the enterprise support the applications on these devices? How does that plug into the enterprise Internet, Intranet, whatever, enterprise IT system? There’re two slightly different questions. The question I was asking

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Forbes Column 2009: Streamlining Innovation

In this week’s column, Streamlining Innovation, HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee discusses the company’s corporate innovation strategy.

Deal Radar 2009: Service-now.com

San Diego-based Service-now.com was founded in 2003 out of the ashes of Peregrine Systems, which was purchased by Hewlett-Packard (and is now that company’s competitor) in a fire sale. Fred Luddy, who was the CTO of Peregrine Systems, believed that legacy enterprise IT software is akin to “customer abuse” and set out to build a

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Top 10 Outsourcing Stocks

Anything I write about outsourcing seems to lead to a heated debate. My article on the Death of Indian Outsourcing was one such piece. The more recent Obama and Outsourcing received a similar welcome. Regardless of what happens to the outsourcing industry as a result of the US elections in November, outsourcing firms will remain key contributors to a changing

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