UK looks to outsourcing

Businesses across the UK are expected to embrace cloud computing in 2011, as they trade the 'cost and pain' of traditional infrastructure for the 'choice and flexibility' of IT outsourcing and the cloud, reports iHotdesk.

Rob Lovell, chief executive officer at ThinkGrid, says: "Companies are asking themselves why they should continue with the status quo, making upfront capital expenditure investments and carrying all the risks associated with large scale IT implementations."

He adds that companies are increasingly looking for ways to save money, such as IT outsourcing in London, with even greater choice and flexibility often available through use of cloud computing.

PC vendor Dell will set up a large operation base in Changsha, the capital city of central China's Hunan Province, to "make the city its most important strategic IT services and international outsourcing services base in the next five years", says Al Paul, the global fiscal and tax director of Dell, according to People's Daily Online.

As the heart of the strategic layout of new technology, Dell's China operation services centre is expected to be set up in Changsha to develop software and information services targeting the global market and participating in local key projects.

Another senior official from Dell says the company is accelerating the transition to expand IT services in the Chinese market, which is the core of Dell's strategic layout.

Computer Point has partnered with IBM, to provide computing and information technology services to companies that want to streamline their information systems to increase profitability, reveals the Daily Monitor.

The alliance will see Computer Point, an IT systems integrator in East Africa, offer IT solutions including infrastructure, application maintenance and development to willing financial institutions, government, telecoms and other corporate companies in Uganda on behalf of IBM.

Tony Mwai, IBM country general manager for East Africa, says the alliance seeks to leverage the firm's IT expertise to support Ugandan businesses and help them meet their business and technology challenges.