Covansys Opens Data and Operations Center in Chennai, India.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FARMINGTON HILLS Far·ming·ton Hills A city of southeast Michigan, an industrial suburb of Detroit. Population: 81,400. , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2002 State-of-the-Art Facility Will Help Enterprises Develop & Maintain Complex Systems and Applications, and Provide Disaster Recovery Covansys Corporation This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (Nasdaq: CVNS CVNS Concert Virtual Network Service CVNS Aircraft Carrier Navigation System CVNS Cardiovascular Neurological Services CVNS Continuous-Valued Number System ), a global consulting and technology services company, today announced the opening of a new data and operations center The facility or location on an installation, base, or facility used by the commander to command, control, and coordinate all crisis activities. See also base defense operations center; command center. in Chennai, India - a move that reinforces the company's position as a leading U.S.-based provider of offshore IT capabilities. The sophisticated, $2 million server facility, which was designed, built and opened in less than six months, will improve the ability of Covansys to develop and maintain complex systems and applications for its enterprise clients. It also allows the company to offer the center as an offshore disaster recovery site for clients, complementing a similar data center facility operating in Middletown, Connecticut Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River, in the south-central part of the state, 16 miles (26 km) south of Hartford. In 1650, it was incorporated as a town under its original Indian name, Mattabeseck. . "This significant infrastructure investment in our offshore capabilities demonstrates our commitment to meet the needs of clients seeking to move complex application maintenance development projects offshore," said Martin C. Clague, president and chief executive officer of Covansys. "Enterprises are expected to accomplish more work with fewer resources and relatively flat budgets, and that's prompting increased interest in offshore delivery that is not likely to diminish." Michigan-based Covansys pioneered the transparent, blended model of offshore IT outsourcing, launching outsourcing operations in India in 1991 and becoming one of the first American First American may refer to:
Two of the company's three wholly owned development centers in India are SEI CMM SEI CMM Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model (R) Level 5 certified. Covansys also owns and operates three U.S.-based development centers. "More than 50 clients are currently utilizing our offshore resources and many are extending their original engagements to include new work," said K. Subrahmaniam, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Covansys India. "The new data center enhances our capacity provide world-class, mission-critical IT services by providing the infrastructure to develop and support emerging client needs." The data center project caps a year-long, multi-million-dollar investment by Covansys to upgrade its offshore capabilities, including a global communications infrastructure with a fully redundant and secure architecture complete with fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. , load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them and support for voice, video and data, for increased reliability and performance. "Robust infrastructure is a critical requirement of leadership in providing top quality, transparent offshore services," said John Talieri, chief information officer of Covansys. "The Chennai data center will allow us to more effectively integrate production operations into our transparent delivery model. It more than doubles data center capacity to support our growing client base, and adds help desk and infrastructure operations features to better serve existing clients." Covansys has a decade-long track record of success in providing domestically managed offshore outsourcing Offshore outsourcing is the practice of hiring an external organization to perform some business functions in a country other than the one where the product or service will be sold or consumed. for more than four dozen top companies, including SIRVA, Henry Ford Health Systems and UNUMProvident Corporation. About Covansys Corporation Headquartered in Michigan, Covansys Corporation (Nasdaq: CVNS) is a global consulting and technology services company specializing in industry-specific solutions, strategic outsourcing and integration services. Our clients gain competitive advantage by leveraging our unique on-site, offsite, offshore delivery capability to achieve rapid deployment, world-class quality and reduced costs. Since its founding in 1985, Covansys has successfully delivered an array of innovative and cost-effective business and technical solutions to leaders in the private and public sector. Our 4,800 employees offer a professional heritage spanning Old World legacy systems and the New Economy's leading-edge technologies. Covansys has 30 locations worldwide, including six development centers. Covansys offers one of the largest offshore capabilities among U.S.-based technology services providers, and two of the company's three wholly owned development centers in India are SEI CMM(R) Level 5 certified. Covansys was named one of the top 500 solution providers in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. in 2002 by VARBusiness magazine. Visit our web site: www.covansys.com. |
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