This post is most special. Few hours ago we announced our intention to merge with Choice Solutions Limited. You may want to read the press release for particulars.

This is defining moment for both companies as we come together.

We are excited. The value we bring together to all our stakeholders is much greater than the sum of its parts and over the next few posts I am going to unfold the significance.

Cheers!

Uttam

That is my title for the event the Industry champions (VMware, Cisco, Sun, Microsoft, NetApp, EMC, BEA, Oracle etc.) should come together to organise. VMWORLD 2007 was not enough for the appetite of Technology Infrastructure community.

It is no more about Virtual Machines but Virtual Enterprise and orchestration across environments of Compute, Storage, Network, Security, Database, Desktop and perhaps process frameworks plus their automation for Business Service Management.

It should discuss models engineered for each environment and relationships among models.

Just wonder what scale would VEWORLD then mean (Delegates – 10,000 X 6, may be 7/8??)…

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Uttam Majumdar

I am here at this event by VMware and inspired by the magic “V” word is doing to change the game. Virtualization is here to stay – this is heard at very high decibels all around and challenging if you haven’t got started to seek advantages for your business.

Over 10,000 people are here at the event and the organisation is brilliant. Some great key notes, 250 break out sessions, several labs and 140 odd exhibitors and all around V.

There are over 130 exhibitors who seem to have a niche offering around Virtualization alone. I was mentioning to a friend here though jokingly that all these companies someday have to be either acquired by VMware or may have to wait until Microsoft or Xensource make any suitable mark. And the next day back at booth one of them is down – acquired by VMware.

Some of the key notes were good, can’t wait to say how much I liked the key note by John Chambers, more so becoz his talk particularly seemed reassuring to us for our SOI & SOM way.

Infrastructure orchestration is a key component of our SOI & SOM approach.

My 2 cents….

There is an urgent need to establish standards and frameworks for VI (Virtual Infrastructure) operations management. I am presuming that will soon happen. The current ITIL framework is not complete enough to address VI related services management. So are the other challenges with frameworks that currently address native Security, Availability and Performance issues.

As the event concludes, I may have more to contribute.

Cheers!

Uttam

I was at the Technovate 2007 last week in Mumbai; a Sun event getting TOP CIO’s into the forum for discussions around Technology Innovations. The event had several speakers from just about every big name in Enterprise Computing – both sellers and buyers.

The highlight of the event besides Locuz getting awarded for Technology Innovation was key note by Scott McNealy . Seems this is his second visit to India, he is a great speaker, and I especially thought he justified role of Sun very well in being a company that is supporting open source movement all the way thru; remember Open Solaris, Open SPARC, Java etc.

On the other highlight Locuz was among 50 odd companies that ware invited to put across efforts that are leading to breakthrough Innovation. And we did to be one among the 8 winners. The list included SAP, Oracle, TCS……

Our efforts in developing tool and processes to make HPC Infrastructure manageability cohesive was an intersting case and is among stuff not seen before – you will soon get to read more on this Innovation as our team is engineering it further.

Uttam Majumdar