Ideation

The Rise Of Clouds

The concept fulfills the long-held dream of computing as a utility and thus represents an inflection point in the geography of computation and IT service delivery. It tries to replace the traditional ‘desktop-as-a-platform” with “internet-as-a-platform”, which can dynamically provide always on and always available IT services to address a wide range of needs, ranging from scientific research to e-commerce, over the web.

Like all new technologies, they challenge some of our computing wisdom, change our assumptions and brings about a paradigm shift in how computing is provisioned, deployed, and metered.

Cisco’s play: Will it do an Oracle with Citrix takeover?

One thing I can tell you for sure. If Cisco does come close to acquiring a virtualization vendor, it may go for Citrix. Why? Check out these opportunities:
Hardware business is going to be commodity soon as software gets resilient (Grid-aware)!

Software, remember that word. Simply if you want to believe me or any of my close [...]

2020: World-wide Data Center Crisis?

We wrote an IEEE paper where I will be talking about it in June. We are proposing an extensible architecture in which we propose to connect the APIs (Power/MDM APIs, Data Center APIs and Consumption-based Open Standards API etc) through and through the whole value chain. With more and more Data Centers being built and [...]

Cloud Computing trend to spell doom for IT Admin jobs

It will spell doom if you didn’t do anything and kept sitting. As technological trends and more and more autonomous solutions are displacing work from folks (IT staff)  to machines/adaptive grid that do it timely, politely and obediently…and even very cheap! See this testimonial:
“In 2005 we needed 10 to 20 times the money we need [...]

Our LinkedIn Cloud Computing groups featured discussion: Open Clouds!

My announcement to the group. Do feel free to join and discuss aggressively. If you haven’t joined the group, now maybe the time to do it!
Dear all,
Keeping the discussions open I’d like to not only share with you but also love to have you engage in helping all of us here develop the following issues [...]

Oracle should acquire Red Hat: Extremely contractionary market consolidation is inevitable!

Cisco’s announcement and the latest IBM’s plan to grab Sun made me think that the time is ripe for Oracle to acquire Red Hat. I know many will disagree but let me tell you why its important:

IBM/Sun move is enough (gossip is enough as well actually) : Look at what it means, IBM, if it [...]

VMworld Europe 2009 Announcements - Age of MicroVlogging Mania ala Twitter!

I’m going to focus on:
- Fast 30-60 seconds vids covering a lot of folks , call it “Do-Or-Die in 2009 session”
- Quick instant published vids for your eyes only
We will eventually rate the vendors as -
- Cool
- Somewhat cool
- Uncool
- Ready for Dead-pool
And do our SWOT competitive analysis which I’ll graphically display in my upcoming [...]

Watch on BrightTALK 9th Feb 2009: Cloud Computing FPI

I’ve uploaded the slides. I hope to see you there tomorrow. We’ll do a quick SWOT on the winner and talk a bit about CC, LCO, FPI and the future trends.
Attend it on BrightTALK

Gartner predicts telepresence to hit Airline Industry’s business; I disagree and worry!

Here’s why I disagree [while I totally agree that teleputing will definitely tackle the overkill and loss of hours/productivity where executives traveled like madmen]. Teleputing age [off-line consulting, conferences etc] gets you closer to each other and it definitely creates those “exclusive channels on the web” where “transparency” could play a great role and now [...]

Cloud OS for the Innovation Economy: How browser war is being fought

Looking at the trend report, that details out the nearly 8% loss of IE within 11 months says one thing and one thing only. This time its really looking different!
Think about it for a couple of seconds
LCO NetBooks: India’s 10$ laptop with Chrome

If this was to become a reality, what would the figures be by [...]