Aelera Corp. CEO Dustin Crane traveled to China, India and Armenia in a quest to buy or start up an offshore IT services company. After six months of searching, he returned to the U.S. and set up operations in the coastal city of Savannah and the smaller town of Fitzgerald, Ga., population 8,758.
McKesson Corp. CIO Cheryl T. Smith estimates that the $8 billion pharmaceutical distributor is saving $10 million annually in salary costs?a percentage of which is reinvested in IT innovation?after relocating its primary data center and about 75 IT jobs from San Francisco to Dubuque, Iowa.
Two fantastic examples of what’s possible. Unfortunatetly, it seems Wisconsin’s political leaders aren’t interested in laying the groundwork for the true high speed networks necessary for these type of opportunities to land here…..