A forecast increase in overall IT spending and in cloud computing funding will have to wait for insurer fears to subside.

All Risks to provide retail insurance agents, brokers with additional capacity in Florida.

Richard G. Turner to oversee managing general agency, program administration, BPO.

Outsourcing may be down a bit, but there's a compelling value proposition in the idea of looking to cloud providers to acquire bite-size chunks of services when needed, paying only for what is used, when it is used.

Other factors, including a bottoming-out of the recession, likely have also played a role.

Outsourcing Market Data: Financial Services Not Biting

Survey finds banking, financial services and insurance the top industry group requesting services, cited by 82 percent of service providers.

Global technology services firm acquires privately-held software provider to expand its presence in the mid-market.

User organizations are banding together to establish baseline for cloud data interactions.

Insurers will be challenged to make work on legacy systems as interesting and fulfilling as any social networking startup may be.

Without dirt-cheap storage, there would be no Big Data. And no cloud for that matter, either.

Undergoing a PAS replacement affects nearly everyone in the organization, as well as agents and insureds. As a result, organizational change management is essential.

Firm acquires São Paulo-based IT services firm to expand its footprint in Latin America.

Amid failures and breaches, public and private sector groups are at early stages of fending off breakdowns and hacks; existing standards often neglected.

Perr&Knight, a provider of insurance support services, will launch an insurance technology services arm next week, the company reports.

Insurance business process outsourcing market blossoms; driving costs out of the claims process.

The annual insurance technology conference saw shifting trends, but issues from the past remain a challenge.

Wipro will offer system integration services to Wyde's insurance clients and prospects.

On day two of the INN Newscast covering the 2011 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum, Shane McCullough, ACORD’s chief enterprise architect in charge of ACORD’s Framework initiative, shares how standards users can benefit from the Framework’s latest advancements.The INN Newscast team also takes a peek inside a couple of sessions that take a realistic look at the upside—and the downside—of emerging technologies.Finally, insurance carrier attendees identify their top technology initiatives for 2011.

Vertafore, BOLT Insurance Agency among companies recognized in annual ranking.