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"We have recently started exploring the Indian Market and believe our strong value proposition will address many of the IT challenges and issues Indian enterprises are facing today."

The following is an interview between Asia-Pacific Business and Technology Report and Doug Mow, senior vice president for marketing at Virtusa Corporation.

Question: Please tell us about Virtusa India's activities.

The secret plotting of American civilian agencies and military forces in the name of democracy and freedom has deep roots in U.S. history. It may be pointless to hark back to the Spanish-American war, the defeat of the Spanish in Cuba and the Philippines in 1898, the suppression of "the Philippine insurrection" and the rise of an American colonial government in Manila.

In Asian countries, the education system has in the past focused mainly on passive learning. In passive learning, children understand concepts by listening to the teacher's instructions. The teacher uses the blackboard to explain his or her concepts. Children have to follow the example and the information given by the teacher to understand the given subject.

Mobile telephony, which started nearly 15 years ago in India, has revolutionized the communication landscape in the country and has permeated various segments of everyday life for its citizens. The importance of mobile in everyone's life has undergone a paradigm shift.

It was a perfect storm of drama.  On the very day when the most powerful nation on earth celebrated its foundations, an anonymous, mysterious force began to attack it and its Asian ally through the Internet, the very communications network which it had invented.  The aggressor had vast resources, was completely unidentifiable, and attacked over 30 different targets with a power that had not yet been seen.  Computers from 16 different countries were involved in the massive storm of nonsense data, disrupting critical operations of the public-facing web pages of such entities as 20-odd government agencies, four banks, Amazon.com, the Korean Grand National Party, and U.S. Auctions Live.  Wait, U.S. Auctions Live?  Who are they?

That is the beginning of the highlight of what actually happened in the first half of July - nothing much really.  In order to put this into further perspective, the web site of the United States Department of Transportation was down for several days.  Yes, it's true, for almost an entire week no one was able to read the announcement of their 2010 fiscal year budget or access the Fast Lane, the official blog of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation.  The undiluted fury of the cyber attackers knew no mercy.

A new study from Ernst & Young casts the light on different aspects of domestic business process outsourcing (BPO). The study reveals that domestic BPO outpaced the overall BPO services market by growing at a compounded annual rate (CAGR) of 50 percent over the last five years.