I recently had the chance to participate in a panel discussion in hosted by the Financial Times on technology and innovation in Canada. Dubbed as the FT Global Investment Series: Focus on Canada, my fellow panelists included: Natan Aronshtam, Partner, Global Managing Director – R&D and Government Incentives, Deloitte & Touche LLP Kenny Rosenblatt, Co-founder [...]
I’ve been seeing a lot of industry data citing that over a third of IT budgets are going to cloud solutions, and that progressive, innovative IT leaders are advocating a cloud-first design policy to reduce expenses and respond quicker to customer demand. I can confirm that this definitely rings true with our customers as their [...]
On April 8th, Microsoft Management Summit 2013 (MMS 2013) kicks off in Las Vegas, NV and once again Avanade is a proud bronze sponsor of the event. The summit brings together thousands of the brightest and most skilled IT professionals from around the world. This appears to be another exciting year at MMS 2013 with [...]
It’s winter in Seattle… and for those of you familiar with the weather here, that means it’s extra cloudy. So I think it’s only appropriate to discuss today how Avanade can help our customers manage their clouds. Today, Avanade announced that it has acquired Opstera software that provides monitoring and management of applications running on [...]
One of the reasons I enjoy my role at Avanade is because I get to have discussions with major customers around how disruptive technology shifts, (such as cloud), will make a difference to their business and IT strategies. However, it is quite rare for a customer to deal with these trends in isolation (I wrote [...]
There are some very exciting examples of organizations around the world harnessing the power of the four megatrends mentioned in my previous blog that discussed The Amplification Loop. One of my most inspiring projects in 2012 was working together with a very creative and innovative roads construction company in the Nordics to develop an approach [...]
Azaleos has come a long way since its founding in 2004. After just six years in business, we had surpassed 500,000 subscribers and built a solid reputation on our Exchange legacy. Just one year later, the company ranked #28 in Deloitte’s FAST 500, and then—in 2012—listed #14 in the global Managed Service Provider ranking. [...]
Some of you may have seen our news that we have completed our acquisition of Azaleos. Over the past eight years, Azaleos has built a reputation for offering private managed cloud services using advanced technology to remotely monitor and proactively manage email, collaboration, and unified communications systems … at very high service levels that large [...]
One of the reasons I enjoy my role in Avanade is because I get to have discussions with major customers around disruptive technology shifts (such as cloud) and how they will make a difference to their business and IT strategies. However, it is quite rare for a customer to deal with these trends in isolation. [...]
One of the reasons I enjoy my role at Avanade is because I get to have discussions with major customers about how disruptive technology shifts (such as cloud) will be to their business and IT strategies. The impact becomes even larger when coupled with other major trends such as Consumerization of IT, (which is what [...]
