2009
Microsoft and HP tag team to take on Cisco, EMC and VMware
By Tarry Singh at 13 January, 2010, 11:06 am
The companies plan to deliver new solutions that will do the following: • Be built on a next-generation infrastructure-to-application model • Advance cloud computing by speeding application implementation • Eliminate complexities of IT management and automate existing manual processes to lower the overall costs This agreement represents the industry’s most comprehensive technology stack integration to [...]
Read More >>Kaifu Lee leaks details on Apple Tablet: Apple expects to sell 10 Million units in 2010!
By Tarry Singh at 1 January, 2010, 11:25 am
I am part of that 10 Million people simply as I need a tablet badly. I read a helluva lot. I have tried Financial Times and other paper subscriptions and they just don’t work for me. Online connectivity requires me to carry my MacBook Pro, no matter how cool it sounds, it still happens to [...]
Read More >>Google’s grand cloud plans: VoIP coming to Google Voice
By Tarry Singh at 1 January, 2010, 11:09 am
A Google executive said the company has only scratched the surface of what it plans to do with Google Voice, the phone management application that lets users route calls to all of their phones from one unique number. Google Voice, which includes such tools as automatic voicemail transcription, SMS support, conference calling, and low-cost international [...]
Read More >>Oracle continues to lose its edge over SAP as demand for SAP professionals increases
By Tarry Singh at 31 December, 2009, 6:03 am
Over the last couple of decades, both SAP and Oracle have demonstrated their capabilities to adapt to the changing economic situations. SAP was started as an ERP company, while Oracle was founded as a tools company. Today, SAP is still an ERP company that some say is “innovation free,” whereas Oracle has evolved into a [...]
Read More >>ComScore: 2009 Online holidays sales jumps 5% up from 2008 sales to $ 27 billion
By Tarry Singh at 30 December, 2009, 11:38 am
Some signs of consumer confidence is a good thing, especially if you compare with the dismal 2008 we had. It is time that both consumer and business confidence starts picking up and we have a better and sustained growth in 2010, no matter how gradual it may be. The growth in this year’s online holiday [...]
Read More >>Cloud Computing war to intensify in 2010 as vendors move up the application stack quickly!
By Tarry Singh at 30 December, 2009, 6:56 am
This cannot be further than the truth. I agree here with the author as time is really running out and vendors do not have the luxury, neither the shareholders and investors for that matter, to build some infrastructure and pray for customers to come. I am telling this to emerging markets where I am helping [...]
Read More >>Indian IT firms to engineers: Quit smoking and get a 10% pay rise!
By Tarry Singh at 30 December, 2009, 5:37 am
Focus has close to 40 employees and its clients include the Confident Group, Embassy Group and ISRO. According to Ramesh, 50 percent of his colleagues are chain-smokers. Concerns about his and their health prompted Ramesh to come up with this idea. “I have had enough of smoking and drinking for the last 25 years. Now, [...]
Read More >>Indian IT firms to ape Accenture’s sales model; set to hire Sr. Partners to drive sales
By Tarry Singh at 23 December, 2009, 3:54 am
Some senior executives who joined Wipro in the last few months as part of the company’s new sales strategy include Kirk Strawser, Managing Partner and Global Head, Wipro Consulting Services; Chris Rooney, Global Practice Head, Business Transformation and Roger Camrass, Senior Practice Partner, Business Transformation. Paranjpe said, “We often lost because of having pure CIO-level [...]
Read More >>Morgan Stanley reports: Mobile devices to kill desktop PC within 5 years
By Tarry Singh at 19 December, 2009, 8:58 am
Get all the reports on Morgan Stanley’s site! Our key takeaways are: Material wealth creation / destruction should surpass earlier computing cycles. The mobile Internet cycle, the 5th cycle in 50 years, is just starting. Winners in each cycle often create more market capitalization than in the last. New winners emerge, some incumbents survive – [...]
Read More >>Apple Tablet to be inexpensive; coming in 2010 Q1 with e-Reader?
By Tarry Singh at 3 December, 2009, 2:14 am
The video is couple on tech-celebs doing some chit-chat. Also could have some better news reading services instead of paper and e-paper combo’s which are premature. A few news agencies like Guardian and Financial Times are trying the online subscription model, which I think are worthless to a visual-content-aware person like me who needs to [...]
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