outsourcing

The news byte from an IDC report paid for and touted by Microsoft as predicting cloud computing would create 14 million new jobs doesn't tell the same story as the data in the report, which shows IT will get less relevant and the U.S. will get few new cloud-fueled jobs.

Worried that a data center in the cloud is too risky?

Data center security an afterthought? Survey says: No!

Hype makes it easy to forget the cloud requires the same skills and includes the same risks as n-tier applications and data-center computing anywhere.

Surveys of CIOs and CFOs make clear that, despite the end of the recession, most costly IT will continue to move out of the data center.

Indian outsourcing companies are making double-digit increases in quarterly revenue, but locating a lot of their workers in the U.S.; U.S. service companies can go anywhere, but stay here because the skills to deliver cutting edge cloud and virtualization systems is still a homegrown product.