IT Outsourcing: Many Mergers Ahead
Xerox's bid for IT and business process service provider Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) comes on the heels of Dell's announcement that it will purchase Perot Systems, and outsourcing industry analysts predict even more consolidation in the IT services market.
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The U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday charged a worker with insider trading in Dell's purchase of Perot Systems this week.
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The Dell-Perot deal accelerates Dell's push into the IT services market.
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Dell has agreed to buy Perot Systems for around US$3.9 billion in cash, and intends to make the company its global services delivery division, the companies said Monday.
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Both business unit managers and technology consumers are big fans of decentralizing IT. They want it carved up by geography, by lines of business, or some other scheme, with control passed to the local senior business manager. This mania for local control isn't just an affirmation of Tip O'Neill's legendary mantra: 'All politics is local.' It seems to be simple human nature.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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