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Musk's Grok AI goes open source | VentureBeat

The open sourcing of Grok is also clearly a helpful ideological stance for Musk in his lawsuit and general criticisms of OpenAI.

3 Ways Sourcing Pros Can Serve An Innovation Agenda | Network World

As the economic downturn begins to loosen its grip, many organizations are moving away from cost cutting and toward innovation and growth. The CEOs behind these strategic decisions recognize that in a business environment characterized by higher levels of uncertainty and risk, the ability to generate and sustain innovation programs will be a crucial element of long-term differentiation and growth. Despite this executive-level focus, however, Forrester has found that corporate leadership often lacks the str

Economic downturn will affect IT sourcing options | Network World

The economic downturn now affecting the U.K. is unlikely to have a major impact on overall IT spending by enterprises, but CIOs are exploring a broader range of IT sourcing options to help them better manage IT costs and also deliver cost efficiencies to business.

Ushahidi wins NetSquared challenge, Humanity United grant | Network World

Ushahidi -- the developer of a free, open-source tool for sourcing crowd information during crises -- has won the NetSquared Mashup Challenge, earning $25,000 in prize money and a $200,000 grant from Humanity United.

Apple storage busts out in the enterprise | Network World

Apple’s Xserve RAID and Xsan are ready for enterprise deployment, users said in a crowd-sourcing event last week.

Red Hat Network to be open-sourced | Network World

Red Hat plans to announce Thursday that it is open-sourcing Red Hat Network (RHN), its Web-based Linux infrastructure management platform, according to CEO Jim Whitehurst.

Q&A: Capgemini on outsourcing, multi-sourcing and mgmt. processes | Network World

Last week I provided an overview of Capgemini, one of the winners of a multimillion-dollar systems integration contract with General Motors. I recently spoke to Chris Carrington, Capgemini president of Americas Outsourcing, who gave me an overview of the company (see last week's newsletter). This week, I will share Carrington's thoughts on trends in outsourcing. Here is our Q&A:

Truths, tips on the request for proposal process | Network World

The request for proposal (RFP) process has been the bread and butter of purchasing organizations for decades. IT organizations aren't strangers to the process, typically sourcing a significant amount of IT spend through RFPs.

Fix and mix approach to offshoring | Network World

Each sourcing conference brings a new set of countries marketing themselves as the next big thing in offshoring. China, India, Ireland, Malta and South Africa all have active marketing campaigns underway.

Single, dual or multivendor sourcing – which works better? | Network World

In recent newsletters we invited different vendors to help weigh up the pros and cons of single-vendor integrated networks vs. best of breed. Klaus Hofmann, Senior Director Enterprise Solutions Marketing at Juniper wrote to us and outlined a somewhat different viewpoint to those of Cisco and Nortel. According to Klaus: "The truth is there's a better approach: a dual vendor strategy."

Study: Could onshoring become the new offshoring? | Network World

Lower cost domestic (LCD) sourcing, or onshoring, could help U.S. economy by creating more jobs and enable companies unable to establish offshore locations to outsource labor at a lower cost.

Best Practices: Streamlining Sourcing Life-Cycle Governance | Network World

Moving from first to second generation outsourcing capabilities is a long-term process for many firms, requiring a much stronger governance role from sourcing and vendor management professionals. In order to successfully invest in governance, sourcing professionals must first identify and understand the contributions and requirements of stakeholders throughout the sourcing life cycle. Taking a strong approach to governance and process oversight will promote an agile and high quality sourcing process, maxim

How Cloud Computing Helps Cut Costs, Boost Profits | Network World

The decision over whether to move your organization's IT to the cloud can be a daunting one. After all, it means a wholesale change in the sourcing and delivery of IT products and services. However, many companies are making the leap, at least for select capabilities--a recent by CDW of 1,242 IT professionals found that more than half of organizations are moving a variety of capabilities to the cloud. And a majority of them are recognizing cost savings and increased profits, according to another study by R

Microsoft on Symbian’s open source move: Good luck with that | Network World

A Microsoft product manager predicts Symbian is embracing the problems, as well as the opportunities, of open sourcing its mobile-phone code.

Sun is considering GPL for OpenSolaris | Network World

Sun confirmed Monday that it's open sourcing its Java SE and Java ME under the GNU general public license, so will Sun look to use the GPL for other offerings it has already open sourced, including the OpenSolaris version of its operating system?

Ahead of the curve | Network World

In the ebb and flow of technology trends, procurement models have generally been among the less volatile elements. However, extraordinary forces have emerged with the potential to seriously disrupt sourcing models.

Use of forced labor ‘systemic’ in Malaysian IT manufacturing | Network World

Almost every brand-name company sourcing from the country is impacted by the practice, said a new report

Apple may finally get clearance for stores in India | Network World

Apple may finally get clearance to set up its stores in India, following the Indian government’s decision Monday to liberalize rules requiring local sourcing of part of the products sold in foreign-owned stores.

Aruba-Airwave: A subtle harbinger of change? | Network World

Last week's announcement that wireless LAN system maker Aruba intends to snap up WLAN management company Airwave Wireless for $37 million left me pondering future enterprise approaches to sourcing. If and when WLANs reach a par status with wired LANs, will the primary enterprise suppliers remain the traditional router/switch companies? Or will they shift to wireless-centric companies?

Open-sourcing Windows: If I ran Microsoft, here’s how I’d do it | Network World

A completely hypothetical explanation of how I, as the fictional CEO of Microsoft, would go about making Windows an Open Source OS.

VMware’s hypervisor to go open source? | Network World

VMware CEO Paul Maritz said the company has considered open sourcing its hypervisor and supporting virtualization tools made by competitors, but didn't give any indication about if or when those changes will be implemented.

HP pivots, says open sourcing SDNs is right | Network World

Seven months after dismissing OpenDaylight, HP has raised its membership in the vendor-driven open source SDN consortium to its highest and most expensive tier.

Can You Trust One Outsourcing Provider to Manage the Rest? | Network World

Big IT service providers are offering up their skills as service integrators, promising to help CIOs reign in their multi-sourcing messes. But can this "fox watching the henhouse" model really work?

GE: We saved $5 million on mobile just by cutting off ex-employees | Network World

The key to getting the maximum value out of every dollar spent on IT, according to GE executive director of sourcing Sam Guertin, is a combination of in-depth knowledge and tough negotiation.

Enterprise IT: Ready for a bumpy ride | Network World

Enterprise IT managers invest in new technologies, adopt different sourcing models and build stronger ties with the business in an effort to weather the current economic storm.