For the better part of two decades, we’ve been witnessing the shift from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. Now it appears we’ve made the leap into an outsourced service economy where no one owns anything.
How did we get here? Is it safe? And where do we go next? The answers to these questions are murky at best. And more to the point, how did the IT operations at many companies end up here, and what does it mean for them?
http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/28/virtualization-cloud-computing-technology-cio-network-outsourcing.html
The long-term effects of outsourcing technology are unknown, but it’s certainly not a new concept.
For the better part of two decades, we’ve been witnessing the shift from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. Now it appears we’ve made the leap into an outsourced service economy where no one owns anything.
How did we get here? Is it safe? And where do we go next? The answers to these questions are murky at best. And more to the point, how did the IT operations at many companies end up here, and what does it mean for them?
The long-term effects of outsourcing technology are unknown, but it’s certainly not a new concept.