IT Outsourcing Goes Rural

by Max Staines of Compass Management Consulting Rural sourcing, where U.S.-based service providers establish delivery centers in low-cost regions outside of major metropolitan areas, is gaining increasing interest and attention in the marketplace. Potential benefits of rural sourcing can include competitive pricing, fewer time-zone and cultural constraints, and, in many cases, lower transition costs. Moreover,…

Speed Bumps on the Road to True Utility Computing

By Max Staines of Compass Management Consulting Discussions of cloud computing benefits often turn to the virtues of dynamic, usage based pricing where IT resources are delivered on-demand to customers in response to changing business requirements. Users pay only for what they consume, and don’t have to worry about insufficient capacity or idle resources. The…