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Minter Ellison has played a leading role advising on large, business-critical outsourcing projects across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region –involving multiple suppliers, multiple stakeholders and complex cross-jurisdictional issues. Our team brings to projects a deep understanding of the commercial and industry drivers, legal landscape and best-of-breed processes and methodologies applied to outsourcing projects. Many of our practitioners have worked in-house or as part of commercial project teams. This expertise, together with our wide-ranging experience and deep industry knowledge, enables us to go beyond merely identifying legal risks, to assist clients with practical and commercial approaches and risk mitigation and allocation strategies, from the outset of each project. Our client base is diverse. We advise on business process outsourcing and information technology outsourcing for suppliers and customers across all industry sectors, including the finance, telecommunications, resources, aviation, government, media, automotive, manufacturing and health industries. We regularly assist clients with:
Many organisations are transferring non-critical applications to various cloud computing models, whilst still maintaining business critical applications within their current infrastructure. Cloud computing models exist along a spectrum that includes public clouds, private clouds, hybrid clouds and virtual private clouds (a private cloud existing in a public cloud).