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Video Interview: How Willing are CIOs to Fund a “Cloud Adoption Team”? | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

Posted on February 22, 2012, in Gaining Altitude in the Cloud, by Omesh Piryani, Consultant, Everest Group

Last week, Everest Group was in Santa Clara at CloudConnect 2012, the defining event of the cloud computing industry. Produced by UBM TechWeb, Cloud Connect brought together IT professionals, developers, infrastructure and service providers, and cloud computing innovators at the Santa Clara Convention Center for a three-day conference. Our Next Generation IT Practice Leader Scott [...]

Lessons for Procuring Cloud Services at the Enterprise Level: Part 2 | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

Posted on February 16, 2012, in Gaining Altitude in the Cloud, by Alejandro Salomon, Engagement Manager, Everest Group

In Part 1 of this blog series on lessons to help you avoid potential challenges and surprises while on the road to the cloud, we looked at procuring cloud services, application and workload analysis, evaluating cloud services, the end-state environment, and making TCO work. Following are our final five lessons 6. Active Management of the Environment [...]

Successful Captives: Thinking Beyond Implementation | Sherpas in Blue Shirts

Posted on February 15, 2012, in Sherpas in Blue Shirts, by Gaurav Gupta, Managing Partner, and Kavitha Murali, Senior Consultant

Setting up a captive in India is much easier now than it was ever before. While an abundant and diverse talent pool, appropriate real estate, and much-needed regulatory support and incentive structure have contributed in no small measure to this, a robust ecosystem of recruiters, consultants, transition specialists and law firms have been able to [...]

A Look Under the Covers of Aon’s Recent Announcements | Sherpas in Blue Shirts

Posted on February 13, 2012, in Sherpas in Blue Shirts, by Rajesh Ranjan, Vice President, Everest Group

Recently, Aon, a leading global provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human resources solutions and outsourcing services, announced its decision to move its corporate headquarters from Chicago to London and released its Q4 2011 results. Moving Headquarters Aon has stated two primary reasons for the move – to gain greater access and [...]

Grief Counseling for the CIO | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

Posted on February 9, 2012, in Gaining Altitude in the Cloud, by Peter Bendor-Samuel, Chief Executive Officer, Everest Group

The accommodation and integration of disruptive technologies into the enterprise IT ecosystem is a significant issue for IT executives. And just as distributed computing did 20 years ago, successful adoption of cloud computing in its many forms requires substantial change across the IT enterprise. The rapid pace of innovation and ability of business users to [...]

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