Archive for the ‘Real Estate, Site & Facility’ Category

Private cloud models: Moving beyond static grid computing addiction

This guest post comes courtesy of Randy Clark, chief marketing officer at Platform Computing.

By Randy Clark
People don’t talk much about grid computing much these days anymore, but most application teams that require high performance from their infrastructure are actually addicted to grid computing — whether they know it [...]

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Call Center Facility Desing: An Introduction to the Basics – KSBA’s SCOpE

Call Center Facility Desing: An Introduction to the Basics – KSBA’s SCOpE

WELCOME TO THE charter issue of KSBA’s Scope, a newsletter dedicated to call center/information technology design. It’s always a challenge to write the lead article in the first issue of an informational publication. The temptation is to spend too much time setting the stage and too little conveying information readers can use to improve their [...]

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Latin America offers good trade avenues for India, says envoy

Latin America offers good trade avenues for India, says envoy

CHENNAI – The Latin American region, unaffected by the global meltdown, offers good business opportunities for Indian companies in sectors such as information technology (IT), pharmaceutical, renewable energy, agri-business and manufacturing, said a senior Indian diplomat here Tuesday.
“Indian companies should formulate long-term strategies to tap the available potential. India’s bilateral trade with Latin America has [...]

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CB Richard Ellis Names Head For Its Largest Unit – Biz Journal

CB Richard Ellis Names Head For Its Largest Unit – Biz Journal

Commercial real estate giant CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. said Thursday it appointed Michael Lafitte to head its business in North and South America.
Lafitte’s official title will be president of the Americas group. For two-and-a-half years, he lead outsourcing for CB Richard Ellis — a $1.7 billion business for the real estate company and a [...]

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The 25 Most Dangerous Cities for Offshore Outsourcing

The 25 Most Dangerous Cities for Offshore Outsourcing

After a year that saw terrorist attacks in Mumbai, kidnapping for profit in Mexico, and the unexpected meltdown of Satyam, one of India’s biggest IT services firms, corporate America’s cries for the CIO to get things done “better, faster, cheaper” offshore may begin to be drowned out by the more moderate mantra of today’s outsourcing [...]

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