Computing
Our Global Sourcing Book – Opportunities for Europe!
By Tarry Singh at 29 August, 2010, 1:53 pm
You may have followed that I will be driving our Global Sourcing/Outsourcing initiative for our company called Quantum Step. I have quit Atos Origin after a decent –nearly 3 years — run at the service provider. Now I am moving back to the place I prefer to hang out the most, which is the buyer [...]
Read More >>Salesforce earning show there are real clouds out there as well
By Tarry Singh at 22 August, 2010, 6:36 am
While many of us would like to just forget about cloud computing since every single vendor — be it in Networking, Hardware, Systems, Marketing, or just about anything — is talking about cloud as if they really dig it, all they are attempting to do is to rebrand their stuff in the hope to sell [...]
Read More >>Can Telco’s be the Cloud gods?
By Tarry Singh at 22 August, 2010, 6:22 am
Global telecommunications majors like AT&T, BT, Orange Business Services and Verizon Business could take a large share of the cloud computing pie, giving IT companies a run for their money, says a new report by telecom analysis and consulting firm Ovum. Ovum says these companies have led a “competitive march from telecoms into cloud computing, [...]
Read More >>Most of APAC customers are looking at Cloud Computing
By Tarry Singh at 22 August, 2010, 6:19 am
Well, we know they have been looking at it for quite a few many years. Sometimes the surveys really don’t tell you much. I am curious about two things: – How many of them are doing it substantially? – What are their experiences with services like Force/Google/AWS and other tranditonal vendors as IBM, CSC, TCS, [...]
Read More >>Astadia launches ROI calculator for the Cloud
By Tarry Singh at 22 August, 2010, 6:13 am
I did a few calculations myself with their tool and although I prefer to rely on my own metrics of Asset OwnerShip, I have come to understand that each model has its own ways of looking at things. This model is fine but I prefer to do my own calculations at my customers. Many I.T. [...]
Read More >>Intel buys McAfee for $7.68Bn!
By Tarry Singh at 19 August, 2010, 7:26 am
Big consolidation wave is always driven by tech companies. Intel just showed that! My prediction, as it stands for Symantec is that Microsoft is going after it. This prediction is holding strong for the last 2 years. Microsoft has to go for adjacent markets and expecially with Cloud offerings becoming more serious and CIOs/CxOs looking [...]
Read More >>Dell buys 3PAR for $1.15Bn
By Tarry Singh at 16 August, 2010, 6:17 am
Dell is changing the enterprise storage array supplier landscape by buying 3PAR for $1.15bn, adding an enterprise block storage array to its storage product roster and complementing the iSCSI EqualLogic storage arrays it bought in 2007. Dell paid $1.4bn for EqualLogic, and it’s turned out to be an astute and successful purchase. 3PAR makes InServe [...]
Read More >>Accenture continues to win outsourcing contracts
By Tarry Singh at 17 June, 2010, 3:47 pm
As per the terms of the contract, which is in addition to an existing contract signed last year, Accenture will provide management services to Henkel that are expected to reduce costs and streamline its activities. Though we remain unclear about the financial impact of the deal on Accenture’s revenue stream, we continue to believe that [...]
Read More >>HCL wins SG $110 Million outsourcing deal with Singapore Exchange
By Tarry Singh at 17 June, 2010, 3:44 pm
Under the agreement, HCL will provide Singapore Exchange (SGX) with infrastructure support and management services including the exchange’s Reach initiative. The Reach initiative announced in June 2010, aims to create a trading engine, establish a data center offering co-location facilities and connect trading communities in global financial hubs to Singapore. HCL’s solution architecture for SGX [...]
Read More >>Survey: Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing to reach 64% by 2020
By Tarry Singh at 17 June, 2010, 3:39 pm
The survey, of more than 600 IT and business decision makers in the US, the UK and Singapore, found that 61% of them believe managing IT in-house provides no competitive advantage and has to stop. According to the survey, the US in-house IT infrastructure is expected to drop from present 82% to 49% in 2020, [...]
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