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http://www.itpro.co.uk/servers/news/182136/jd-sports-outsources-data-centre.html

JD Sports has signed a five-year outsourcing agreement worth £2 million to hand over its data centre and back-office IT operations to a hosted provider.

The sports fashion retailer said the deal would upgrade, future-proof and secure its infrastructure. It will also support its compliance with the Payment Card Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which includes the requirement to test all transactional applications as part of its card data security management regulations.

Check out this article which is highlighting that outsourcing parts of the IT infrastructure is something that’s cross business. Outsourcing elements of the IT infrastructure can be a great way of focusing on your core business and letting someone else focus on their core skills – IT and service delivery. Whether it’s right for you is going to depend on the scale of the work load, what functions you want to outsource as well as the relationship of IT to your business. A newsagent might do fine to outsource IT support to a third party, in the enterprise I might only want to outsource the data center management, the server build process, but keep the development in-house to protect my intellectual property.

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