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2010: Outsourcing Market to rely on contract renewals; Global Sourcing Advisories to play crucial role

While many analysts and research firms are currently in a flux-state and saying what everyone is saying. I wanted to share some data here to explain why the year 2010 will be defining. There is a lot of talk and FUD being created as to the end of global sourcing or slower uptake and maybe [...]

Top 25 Cloud Computing Providers for 2010: Real-Time Report coming on 4th January 2010!

Complete analysis of all the top 25 Cloud Computing Service Providers. This report will be published and seperate link will be provided as to where to purchase it. P.S: Resolution to the PSD rendered image below is pretty cool (right-click image to view full size for details)

Welcome new Corporate Enterprise: Virgin America builds Clouds with Open Source

This confirms my faith and belief with the discussion I was having with the Malaysian official who is driving the Govt 2020 Vision on open source. It sounds naive and yes enterprise software with cool powerpoint slides may win the board rooms but today the new CIOs are not the traditionally older ones who just [...]

Will Memory Motion kill VMotion and other storage related worlds?

Update 1: Global IT Investments Chart added| From 60s until now, see “In Closing” The conversations that I am having around the planet is rising and a lot is suddenly beginning to make sense to a very small number of folks I have been speaking to. And I prefer to like it that way actually, [...]

IdeationCloud Pro Beta launch, Oracle VM Book launch, Upcoming books and much more

All, A few thoughts I’d like to share with you. IdeationCloud Pro Cloud Service: I intend to launch the Beta by Nov 09 and want to go live by Jan 2010. Goal is simple: Involve you, you take most of the cash/earning and I get to take the hosting but also honor of empowering you. [...]

Cloud Concepts

When most people talk about “cloud computing”, they usually refer to online delivery and consumption models for business and customer services. These services include IT services like software-as-a-service (SaaS) and storage or server capacity as a “service” but also many, many “nonIT” business and consumer services which are not “computing” tasks per se.

In engineering terms, cloud computing refers to providing services on virtual machines allocated on top of a large machine pool whereas in business terms, the term means a method to address scalability and availability concerns for large scale applications. In short, cloud computing is a way of democratized distributed computing.

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 [...]

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 [...]