Global Equations CEO to Head Avasant’s Sourcing Governance Arm, Following Acquisition
December 29th, 2010Avasant announced the acquisition of Global Equations LLC, an Austin, TX based management consulting firm focusing on Sourcing and Globalization Advisory services.
This acquisition will further strengthen Avasant’s position as the leading Sourcing and Globalization Advisory firm. Avasant’s Global CEO Kevin S. Parikh described this as a strategic move and added, “Avasant has continued to grow its global advisory practice and the acquisition of Global Equations will further expand our current delivery footprint. Today Avasant supports its clients globally, including in several emerging regions: Africa, the Middle East, Central and Latin America, and Eastern Europe.”
As a part of this acquisition, Anupam Govil, CEO of Global Equations will join Avasant as a Partner and continue to drive the growth of this important line of business. Additionally, Anupam will also assume the role of President of Avasense, Inc. …
It’s Official: Cloud is Overhyped, but Does Outsourcing Cloud Really Double IT Costs?
February 20th, 2010It’s sure overcast out there. Cloud computing, the buzzword sweeping the tech world, claimed the top spot in the most recent Hype Cycle report put out by Gartner Research, while a BusinessWeek cover story compared the technology’s impact to the introduction of electricity. Even President Barack Obama’s chief information officer declared himself an acolyte, saying, “I am killing projects that don’t investigate [cloud computing] first.” Last month, a Microsoft lawyer urged the European Union to revamp its laws in a speech subtitled, “How Cloud Computing Will Change Our World.”
Cloud computing is a foggy concept. As with Web 2.0 before it, it’s something everyone thinks they need, even if they aren’t sure what it means. In a nutshell, cloud computing means tapping software, hardware or storage over the Internet (the aforementioned “cloud”), then using and paying for it on an as-needed basis. Applications like Facebook and Google Gmail have …
Four Questions to Ask Your Cloud Computing Outsourcing Partner
January 19th, 2010
As cloud computing initiatives take hold in government, agencies need to consider the contracting implications of this new technology model. Managing a relationship where government data could reside on privately owned computing infrastructure located anywhere in the world demands that agencies ask some crucial questions of cloud vendors before they close the deal.
Daren Orzechowski, an intellectual property attorney who specializes in IT and outsourcing issues, said government agencies need answers to four fundamental questions before they choose a cloud computing provider.
1. Where is my data?
Server virtualization technology allows cloud vendors to optimize their use of computing hardware and other IT resources. That can cut costs, especially as the volume of cloud computing customers grows and vendors achieve economies of scale. But virtualization also has a downside.
“Your data could be broken up — or the instance of your application could be …
