STEPHANIE OVERBY

Stephanie Overby is a Boston-based freelance writer.

How to Protect Your Intellectual Property in the Cloud

IT professionals know that handing data over to a third-party is always risky, but cloud computing creates unique concerns for IP. Here are nine tips to protect critical corporate data wherever it goes

IT Outsourcing Deal Size Data Shows Decade-Long Decline

The proliferation of IT and business process outsourcing contracts worth less than $100 million is creating governance headaches for CIOs. How are IT outsourcing service providers responding?

The Patriot Act and Your Data: Should You Ask Cloud Providers About Protection?

Does the USA Patriot Act give the U.S. government too much access to data stored on the cloud servers of American providers regardless of where those servers are located? That's the concern among European IT leaders.

5 Tips to Keep IT Outsourcing on Track as Global Providers Cut Staff

Are you prepared as global IT outsourcers shrink onshore staff? These tips will help you keep projects moving as offshore IT service provides cut back on the on-site staff that used to work as liaisons between customer and provider.

7 Signs You've Outsourced Too Much to IT Service Providers

Have you outsourced too many IT services? Once an organization gets a taste of the benefits of IT outsourcing, the hunger for more naturally increases. But the ROI quickly diminishes as internal IT service organization shrink. If these seven traits apply to your company, you've outsourced too much.

12 IT Outsourcing Predictions for 2012

In 2011, the IT outsourcing industry was marked by smaller deals, leery customers, profit-squeezed IT service providers and a lot of cloud computing talk. Much of that could continue next year, but as our 12 predictions for 2012 indicate, you can expect some new IT outsourcing developments--maybe even a few firsts.

IT Outsourcing Year in Review, Rating Our 2011 Predictions

We revisit our CIO.com IT outsourcing predictions for 2011 to determine which one were solid hits, which were foul tips, and which were swings and misses

10 Worst Sales Tactics of IT Outsourcing Companies

If IT service providers make New Year's resolutions, our experts suggest they finally retire these tired—and tiresome—sales practices.

China's Cheaper Cities Prime for IT Outsourcers

CIOs looking for lower costs, specific language skills or local support should consider these five up-and-coming outsourcing cities in China.

IT Outsourcing to China Increases Despite Drawbacks

Never mind China's higher IT outsourcing costs than competing countries, poor English skills and lack of scale. A new report predicts that China's multi-billion dollar offshore outsourcing market will grow 25 percent over the next three years as international IT leaders tap the country for domestic and regional support.