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Outsourcing Companies Go Rural to Help with Costs

While the offshoring of technology labor is a trend not likely to go away any time soon, there are U.S. companies that are staying competitive by having parts of their operations at locations in more rural U.S. states.

The Reality We Can All Agree On

For centuries, the encyclopedia was viewed as the single most reliable reference source for just about everything. Encyclopedia articles were written, edited, vetted, edited some more, until finally an article appeared that was as close to absolute truth as humans could make it. Then came the Internet, and shortly thereafter sites such as Wikipedia. Now, [...]

dbaDIRECT Launches New Guardian Plus Service Levels for Data Infrastructure Management

dbaDIRECT, the leader in intelligent, automated remote database administration services today announced a strategic segmentation of its service offerings to provide the exact level of service needed, exactly when its needed. The company’s new service umbrella will be known as “Guardian Plus”, but will be split into two tiers which will enable customers to maximize [...]

The Wiki Approach to Enterprise 2.0: The Reality We Can All Agree On

For centuries, the encyclopedia was viewed as the single most reliable reference source for just about everything. Encyclopedia articles were written, edited, vetted, edited some more, until finally an article appeared that was as close to absolute truth as humans could make it.

dbaDirect wins Kentucky IT funding

A Kentucky program to help companies build information technology infrastructure will benefit DbaDirect Inc. in Florence.

Ascending the Data Infrastructure Hierarchy

The Five Stages of Data Infrastructure Management Maturity

The Title is Information Officer

During late 1990, IT executives were the stars of many businesses, capturing the imagination of their companies and customers by leading them in new directions for information technology.

Viewpoint ­ ­ Give Yourself Some “Wiggle Room” to Drive Innovation and Change

Sept. 21, 2007– ­ ­ Recently I came across a quote by the legendary Chicago Sun ­Times journalist Sydney Harris who observed, “Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same, but get better.” Nothing like a little paradox [...]

Defining the next paradigm of IT outsourcing

In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn explained that a paradigm is a worldview that is vulnerable to being displaced when new ideas render it obsolete. It is increasingly clear that conventional approaches to IT infrastructure management are not aligned with the expectations and demands of our fast ­paced, networked, global economy. [...]

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