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Universities to share £12.5m cloud services
07 February 2011As it finalises details of university budget cuts, England’s higher education funding body announces £12.5m shared cloud services programme
BBC mismanaged Digital Media Initiative, review finds
02 February 2011The outsourcing and subsequent ‘reinsourcing’ of the BBC’s archive digitisation project was mishandled, National Audit Office concludes
Outsourcers flee revolutionary Egypt
01 February 2011Vodafone moves call centre work out of Egypt, while Indian firms Infosys and Wipro evacuate staff
Wipro CEOs quit after luke-warm results
21 January 2011Indian IT outsourcer's joint chiefs step down as financial results suggest it is failing to keep pace with rivals
Logica heads up £157m SOCA outsourcing deal
12 January 2011Breaking government's £100m deal limit, UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency inks agreement with consortium of IT services providers
iGate takes over Indian outsourcer Patni
10 January 2011Following months of speculation over the Indian outsourcer's future, American IT services business iGate acquires majority stake in Patni
NHS / Steria joint venture chief touts India offshoring
04 January 2011Head of public / private partnership NHS Shared Business Services says health service could save millions by outsourcing more to India
BP’s $400m deal with HP suggests EU outsourcing thaw
21 December 2010The latest in a series of high profile outsourcing deals by European companies suggests barren period for IT services providers may be over
Atos Origin breached contract with DeBeers, judge rules
20 December 2010Judge recommends damages of around £1 million over failed integration project, but observes that diamond company shared responsibility for delays
Hewlett-Packard bribery probe deepens
17 December 2010Ongoing Russia kickbacks investigation has expanded into Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and beyond, HP says
MoD signs £800m logistics IT deal with Boeing
17 December 2010The Ministry of Defence inks 11-year contract for armed forces' logistical systems despite government pledge to end megadeals
Australian bank outsources to IBM following outage
16 December 2010National Australia Bank transfers 425 IT jobs to IT giant, not long after payments processing system crashed causing account errors
Atos Origin buys Siemens' IT business
15 December 2010Nearly 2,000 jobs lost as $1.1 billion deal creates Europe's second largest IT services provider
E.ON outsources 1,100 jobs to HP
15 December 2010European power giant hands IT infrastructure to Hewlett-Packard in $1.4 billion deal
2e2 outsources IT support roles to India’s Patni
18 November 201025 jobs under question as UK IT services supplier inks five year deal with Patni Computer Systems
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