remote infrastructure management outsourcing Archive
Years of Plenty Followed by Years of Starvation for RIM Service Providers
On November 17, 2014 In Thought Leadership
Right now Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) service providers are enjoying explosive growth as they take share from asset-heavy players. The labor arbitrage market is disintermediating or successfully attacking the traditional asset-heavy infrastructure space. But in every boom are the seeds of undoing. It reminds me of the story of Joseph in the Biblical book
Implications of the Enterprise Strategic Intent Shift toward Cloud
On October 29, 2014 In Thought Leadership
Since the beginning of 2014 Everest Group has seen a real shift in large enterprise CIO organizations in their strategic intent toward cloud services. What are the implications on the traditional infrastructure outsourcing market from this strategic intent? Timing First, we expect that this shift will not happen overnight. As organizations work on their
Are We Hearing the Swan Song for RIM Services?
On March 21, 2014 In Thought Leadership
Remote infrastructure management (RIM) services were the disrupter for asset-heavy infrastructure services over the past several years and, in all likelihood, will continue to be for the next few years. However, as we look down the road it appears that RIM will hit the speed bump of automation and cloud, which will impact RIM
What If CSC and HCL Get Brave?
On February 27, 2014 In Thought Leadership
CSC and HCL announced an alliance a few weeks ago, which is more of a go-to-market than structural change. But what if the twosome were to agree to a follow-on alliance to do something really big — something with huge industry and market consequences? It would be extremely brave and very risky. But it
HP’s Most Difficult Challenge Has Yet to Hit
On February 4, 2014 In Thought Leadership
To date the cloud has not been a major disruption in the traditional outsourcing market. Rather, cloud has attacked the rogue IT or departmental processing market. But we believe that this tide will now turn inward onto the enterprise space, where HP and other infrastructure players live. How will HP take on cloud disruption?
HP’s Strategic Decisions – What’s the Next Shoe to Drop?
On August 22, 2011 In Thought Leadership
In 1729, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer Jonathan Swift penned a satirical paper suggesting that to prevent the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and to make them beneficial to the public, the Irish should eat their own children. Driving toward services leadership may