Monthly Archives: October 2010

Automation – A Critical success factor in the Cloud Strategy

Posted on October 31, 2010 by

Recently as per an Informationweek article,Rod Johnson ,Founder of the Spring framework project (now a part of VMWare) has said Cloud applications will require more automated services than their predecessor enterprise apps. “Innovation today is tending to be in frameworks, … Continue reading →

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Riptano Gets Funded,Apache Cassandra Shines!

Posted on October 28, 2010 by

Devin Knighton, Marketing Director of Riptano (the company specializing in providing software solutions around ‘Apache Cassandra’,about which I had posted earlier) informed me yesterday about their First round of funding from highly reputed venture investment firms,LightSpeed and Sequoia. Investments of … Continue reading →

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Tapping in to the $1.5 Billion Cloud Security Market!

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

Informationweek  last week reported that Cloud security will grow to become a $1.5 billion market by 2015 and that  cloud security will also account for nearly 5% of IT security technology spending. These predictions come from a new Forrester report, “Security … Continue reading →

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View Point :Cloud computing may be more harmful to IT cos than anti-offshoring moves

Posted on October 24, 2010 by

In my earlier blog post dt Sept 24th, I had posted my view points about the Cloud Services possibly lowering the demand for off-shoring IT services. Last week Economic times carried a news article on what technology strategist John McCarthy  … Continue reading →

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SMBs moving to the Cloud? Explore CloudFlare – An Intelligent & Powerful Security Control on the Web!

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

A recent study published by SandHill indicates  46% of the SMBs are implementing pilots on the Cloud , 34% implementing non-critical apps and 25% implementing mission critical applications speculating a growing interest or movement of SMBs to the cloud. Public Clouds  with … Continue reading →

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The Increasing Significance of Hybrid Cloud Computing for Enterprises!

Posted on October 13, 2010 by

Off late there seems to be a  lot of news  and momentum gathering around the Hybrid Clouds. More than a year ago, the thinking and speculations of the key Industry people (such as Russ Daniels, Hewlett-Packard’s CTO for cloud computing … Continue reading →

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Tata Communications debuts InstaCompute Cloud Service in India

Posted on October 10, 2010 by

Tata Communications debuted its Cloud services in the Indian market ,Thursday,last week as reported by ‘The Hindu’ . InstaCompute , Tata Telecom’s Cloud computing service will provide organizations in India to leverage the flexible pay per use computing model for … Continue reading →

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