Nearshore Journal

By Patrick Thibodeau
As many as 2,000 workers may be hit in latest round of cuts
After shrinking its U.S. workforce by as many as 10,000 employees last year, IBM this week may be on its way to cutting another 2,000 workers.
IBM isn’t commenting on its latest round of cuts and information about it comes from the [...]

By Sonya Hubbard
Today’s the deadline for the many companies that are on a calendar year to get their 10Ks in to the SEC, and the folks here at footnoted couldn’t be happier. We won’t bore you with how we spent our respective weekends combing through over 900 alerts to assemble a hefty spreadsheet of all [...]

By Chris Williams
HP today stamped its authority on day-to-day operations at the former EDS by replacing the services unit’s boss Joe Eazor with its own man, Tom Iannotti. Iannotti, previously managing director of HP
Americas and Technology Solutions Group, will now run the group’s global outsourcing operation, HP Enterprise Services.
The unit was formed when HP [...]

By Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld
A start-up IT services firm — headed by veteran offshoring executives — has opened up an offshoring alternative in Michigan, a state with a 17.5% unemployment rate and a well-educated labor pool.
Fremont, Calif.-based Systems In Motion Inc. (SIM) has 35 IT workers in Ann Arbor and hopes to employ about 1,100 in [...]

Video: New PEER 1 Hosting Toronto Data Center (www.peer1.com)
By Kathleen Lau, ComputerWorld Canada
Vancouver-based infrastructure services provider Peer 1 is launching its flagship data centre in Toronto later this spring and will be the first of the company’s global facilities to offer co-location, managed hosting and dedicated hosting. ”
Fabio Banducci, president and CEO of Peer 1, [...]

By Paul Glader. Xerox Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ursula Burns said her company will keep doing acquisitions, but not as large as the $5.6 billion takeover of business process outsourcing firm Affiliated Computer Services Inc. that closed on Friday.
Dallas-based ACS will expand Xerox’s service offerings into payrolls, accounts payable, information technology outsourcing and other business [...]

By Patrick Thibodeau
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget proposal, released Monday, flattens federal IT spending and orders federal departments to consolidate and centralize IT operations.
This budget is unsparing in its criticisms and says federal IT departments have a history of not delivering productivity and performance gains “that are found when IT is deployed effectively [...]