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Our Global Sourcing Book – Opportunities for Europe!
By Tarry Singh at 29 August, 2010, 1:53 pm
You may have followed that I will be driving our Global Sourcing/Outsourcing initiative for our company called Quantum Step. I have quit Atos Origin after a decent –nearly 3 years — run at the service provider. Now I am moving back to the place I prefer to hang out the most, which is the buyer [...]
Read More >>Essar’s Aegis group looks for $50-$200M acquisitions in Europe
By Tarry Singh at 23 August, 2010, 9:46 am
Aegis Ltd., an outsourcing unit of India’s Essar Group, will pursue acquisitions in the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and Africa during the next two years. The company is targeting deals in the $50 million to $200 million range and intends to complete one each quarter, Managing Director Aparup Sengupta said in an interview in [...]
Read More >>Salesforce earning show there are real clouds out there as well
By Tarry Singh at 22 August, 2010, 6:36 am
While many of us would like to just forget about cloud computing since every single vendor — be it in Networking, Hardware, Systems, Marketing, or just about anything — is talking about cloud as if they really dig it, all they are attempting to do is to rebrand their stuff in the hope to sell [...]
Read More >>Can Telco’s be the Cloud gods?
By Tarry Singh at 22 August, 2010, 6:22 am
Global telecommunications majors like AT&T, BT, Orange Business Services and Verizon Business could take a large share of the cloud computing pie, giving IT companies a run for their money, says a new report by telecom analysis and consulting firm Ovum. Ovum says these companies have led a “competitive march from telecoms into cloud computing, [...]
Read More >>Most of APAC customers are looking at Cloud Computing
By Tarry Singh at 22 August, 2010, 6:19 am
Well, we know they have been looking at it for quite a few many years. Sometimes the surveys really don’t tell you much. I am curious about two things: – How many of them are doing it substantially? – What are their experiences with services like Force/Google/AWS and other tranditonal vendors as IBM, CSC, TCS, [...]
Read More >>Astadia launches ROI calculator for the Cloud
By Tarry Singh at 22 August, 2010, 6:13 am
I did a few calculations myself with their tool and although I prefer to rely on my own metrics of Asset OwnerShip, I have come to understand that each model has its own ways of looking at things. This model is fine but I prefer to do my own calculations at my customers. Many I.T. [...]
Read More >>Intel buys McAfee for $7.68Bn!
By Tarry Singh at 19 August, 2010, 7:26 am
Big consolidation wave is always driven by tech companies. Intel just showed that! My prediction, as it stands for Symantec is that Microsoft is going after it. This prediction is holding strong for the last 2 years. Microsoft has to go for adjacent markets and expecially with Cloud offerings becoming more serious and CIOs/CxOs looking [...]
Read More >>Cap Gemini expands LATAM with Sonda acquisition, a BPO firm
By Tarry Singh at 19 August, 2010, 1:27 am
Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and Sonda Procwork, the Brazilian unit of Chilean IT systems integrator Sonda , today announced that Capgemini Brazil has acquired Sonda Procwork’s facility in Gaspar, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil and will now deliver BPO services to global clients in [...]
Read More >>Dell buys 3PAR for $1.15Bn
By Tarry Singh at 16 August, 2010, 6:17 am
Dell is changing the enterprise storage array supplier landscape by buying 3PAR for $1.15bn, adding an enterprise block storage array to its storage product roster and complementing the iSCSI EqualLogic storage arrays it bought in 2007. Dell paid $1.4bn for EqualLogic, and it’s turned out to be an astute and successful purchase. 3PAR makes InServe [...]
Read More >>BPO M&A: Sutherland Global buys Adventity Global
By Tarry Singh at 12 May, 2010, 4:49 am
The purchase of Adventity will help Sutherland, which is backed by Standard Chartered Private Equity and Oak Investment Partners, to firm up its presence in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Dilip Vellodi, chairman and chief executive of Sutherland, told Reuters. These regions account for about 15 percent of a $175 billion global outsourcing services [...]
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