Quite catchy - Cisco way to Unified Fabric Architecture…

Its promise was to deliver flexibility across Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments for any application – now promises enhancements for new age massively scalable Data Centres to deal with Big Data/Hadoop environments and bare-metal deployments. These data centres have massive blade density and demand flexible workload mobility (VM’s freely moved) not compromising on plug-and-play capability plus throughput on network and storage transport.

Unified Fabric will virtualize data centre resources and connect them through a high bandwidth network that is very scalable, with high performance and enables convergence of multiple protocols onto a single physical network.

@Locuz we have managed to exploit this further by being able to bring automation to the application layer. Our HPC and High Performance Storage capabilities are coming handy as Business computing has been echoing the same needs that we kept executing for long enough now.

Want to build the next generation Data Centre, review our reference architecture and do not hesitate to write to preetam.oswal@locuz.com

Cheers!

Uttam

Must watch…

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The rapidly growing use of Tablets by Enterprise users is making it imperative they get anywhere any device access to all applications. Anytime is implicit.

Many Businesses are unprepared with such sudden rise in on-demand access by unconventional devices.

Access to Business applications had been in some form tied down to desktops/laptop hardware and operating system on them.

Application access and user side applications need to be decoupled from hardware of users and be centrally hosted. For example the desktop is Virtual and is provisioned to user from the (Private) Cloud. Equally well for tablets.

Virtualization will help in desktops being delivered consistently across users (tablet and desktop) and will make access far more secure than the traditional desktop methods. The transformation may have to be accelerated for many Enterprise deployments without disruption and uncompromised experience with settings or device itself.

The technology itself has quite evolved with examples like Cisco CIUS, a Enterprise Tablet and RIM Blackberry having a Citrix Receiver for Playbook Tablet.

Our approach is an accelerator. We are helping customers go thru such transformation in a manner that is not only smooth but extremely effective.

Cheers!

Uttam

We are an authority in building Private Cloud Infra. Something that I have been longing to write for a while but wanted to be sure if we were not missing anything. With a tested methodology and deep expertise across parts of a service ready stack, in place, we can help customers transition their Core Technology Infrastructure to Cloud Infra.

Our offering is independent of any Virtualization or Storage or Interconnect technology. We can assist customers chose an appropriate stack that will provide full scale Automation and Orchestration. Resource provisioning thru our self service portal is not only an assured cost effective outcome but dramatically easier – all within a policy framework.

Cloud Reference Architecture (Locuz Proprietary)

Our Integration capabilities offer the flexibility of using your Private Cloud like any SMT service and add capabilities like charge back.

Over next few posts I wish to elaborate our capabilities and experiences in customer environments.

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Locuz has won few CRN awards during the previous years, all being in the cat of “Best SI, South India”.

Today we have been conferred with “COMPANY OF THE YEAR” Award by CRN – a very special National and highest echelon Award. It reflects our commitment to Quality Services, Technology Vision, HR Practices, Unique Skills, Capable Team and most importantly Customer Satisfaction.

Thanks to all our Customers and Partners.

BIG Thank you and Congratulations to every Locuzite.

Cheers!

Uttam

Teaching and Learning Engineering is not going to be same anymore in India. Some initiatives are redefining them and among these NPTEL is one. We are proud to be associated with VTU in Karnataka assisting them in establishing their on-demand video lecture provisioning system – connected with NPTEL and in-house studio. We used a uniquely developed streaming system that would provision HQ Video Lectures on demand. Check out.

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Identity Management is the corner stone of Governance and more so in the case of SOA.

SOA interactions impose tremendous complexity on being able to make each interaction accountable from user access standpoint and unlike Identity in monolith applications; Identity for each interaction will have to be brokered effectively.

It may be useful to plan and perhaps deploy Identity Management early in the cycle of SOA readiness and more importantly the SOA blueprint should capture protection in the form of accountability for both service consumer and provider – just like the way it does for Interoperability, service discoverability and predictability of service performance.

I thought this may be a useful discussion for many CIO’s. During several meetings around Governance this point emerged as one very important subject. I spoke on similar lines at an IDC event in Doha because of the special interest expressed by attending CIO’s.

Please post your comments and thoughts, we could all learn from experiences of many.

Cheers! Uttam

I will continue to post here, but may tweet more often. Micro blog may just work better for me. My tweets…

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Uttam

Scientific and Enterprise computing that are CPU intensive is not going to be same anymore. GPU architectures are making those large G/T/P FLOP systems faster, greener and smaller, also cheaper.

More and more applications are getting accelerated with CUDA. Among good examples are – CFD solvers running at 1/20 of resource for a given iteration; HMMER running at 62x time faster; Monte Carlo Simulations running up to 50x time faster.

The GPU architectures from CUDA and FireStream have already made it to Top500 list sometime ago which has been a milestone and is fast moving up the charts, I am sure the 35th list of Top500 is going have much more of GPU+CPU. It is only matter of time that desktops would be replaced with supercomputers. The GPU’s help offloading non-sequential parts of application from the CPU and achieves performance of nature described before.

More interesting to watch is if CUDA is really breaking the dominance of Intel and AMD? And if more and more developers will optimize applications with OpenCL or DirectX for CUDA? What will even happen to ClearSpeed?

Cheers!

Uttam

We are organising an event on 20-Aug-2009. The event will cover Security framework in the service-oriented economy.

You will hear from us about the “critical shift” with IdM and Access Management in today’s environment that is brought on by increased service standards, improved systems and business agility.

If SOA is the way to go, understanding the “critical shift” may be equally important.

Here is the invitation.

Go thru the program details, and do register if you wish to attend.

Cheers!

Uttam