Not really. Nothing new or exciting. For small shops many often get by with a contract to a services provider (x hours per week/month or Bob the guy with a computer at home). For larger shops they often cycle between the outsource nightmare and in sourcing it, depending on senior management infighting and the latest magazine trend article written up. The mid sized ones balance and trade off.
The largest negative of outsourcing is losing control of your data. You can mitigate it with contracts, over site, management but ultimately you have non-employees controlling vast amounts of access and responsibility for your data. The reverse of employee IT is you have to be able to hire and retain competent people and manage the right level of support contracts for your needs/risks. It's all in your managements risk/reward choices. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting article ... > > Q&A With Larry Velez: Why Outsourcing the IT Department Makes Sense for > Smaller Businesses | Hardware & Software | bMighty.com > > http://www.bmighty.com/shared/article/printableArticleSrc.jhtml?articleID=20740 > 1346 > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
