Since I could not create one for our way of SOI/SOM, I borrowed this one and is the closest we are to. This is something I otherwise keep saying with product neutralism; however would never mind using Cisco technology in our stack to SOI. Go thru by pressing the replay button…

Cheers!

Uttam

Every single meeting I had in the last two months – that I did not post anything on my blog – was about IT heads saying they have their eyes fixed on the ball – doing more or same but certainly with less.

Remote Infrastructure Management is the surest way. But this can be misleading too. It is extremely important to know what capabilities one should look for in the RIM partner. Let me offer a few tips (not in any order and none being optional) -

1. RIM partner should be able to offer flexible models
2. Should have deep Network and Systems Integration skills
3. Be specialized in Security
4. Contribute in transformational projects for Business IT alignment
5. Offer best practices and have delivery Centre Certified
6. Introduce Automation and Standardization – processes and delivery
7. Should be able to co-locate systems closest to the Delivery team
8. Virtual staff augmentation of highest quality
9. Contribute to Architecture decisions
10. Innovate (and can mean so much)
11. Tools – best of breed
12. Improving Datacentre efficiency for power and space
13. Consolidate and optimize the network, systems and storage
14. Mitigate all risks connected with Business Services availability
15. Finally bring cost down by 20% in the first year

Our customers have chosen us for these reasons.

Conclusion – RIM Services is the way forward to better manage IT Infrastructure while reducing operational costs.

I will have a note from a customer who is keen to share the experience on my next post.

Cheers!

Uttam

We are not responsible for this

But then are taking the responsibility of innovating with our customers who will eventually brave this crisis. At times like these organisations are seeking partnerships that will cut cost right from the day of engagement and not thru projects that will give returns over the medium to long term.

Our business models and methodologies are very compelling and made with customers in mind for good times and to stay smiling at bad times.

You will not have to stall a critical IT project but speak to us; we will deliver all of that to you as service and feel free to call it SaaS, HaaS or Cloud.

Our delivery for Selective Outsourcing will be Integratable to your existing Enterprise systems because of our belief in Adaptive Enterprise and unique SOI/SOM methodology. We will deploy your services over an orchestration layer and manage it thru SLA driven high availability, security and performance from our IDC at Chennai which is among the best in India.

OR

A model that delivers SLA performance to manage your existing environment leveraging our RIM (Remote Infrastructure Management) capabilities combined with superior levels of technology, processes and service delivery automation. You may spend 20-30% lower.

Spend less and run Business- IT dashboard (see to believe) with improved analysis of root cause, event correlation and problem management.

OR

Give away your DR problems to us. We are very special when it comes to offering you Managed DR.

We are spending lot of time in thinking and piloting on how else we could innovate. IdM/SSO is available as SaaS with us now; more of such innovation is going to be soon rolling out. May be we could co-create for your environment. Let us talk.

Cheers!

Uttam

It has been long gap.

Something that I told a customer the other day is something I discovered are new fundamentals.

It appears there are too many IT projects in organisations in the name to IT Business – Alignment these days. To me some of them look like an escape route to Architectural mistakes already made. It is important that IT does overhauling of processes and technologies already in use thus make itself agile service provider to business.

The escape route is leading to another silo. One shld just stop buying more technology unless validated that current investments have been maximized.

This is among the new fundamentals.

Think about it. I hope to list more of them in my future posts.

Cheers!

Uttam

That’s how we will be known hereafter.

One and the only thing that is changing in Locuz – doing big!

We are “doing big”, an outcome of “thinking big”.

I am eager to write my post on the mega deal both Locuz and 3i Infotech will win leveraging each others strengths.

While there is more I am going to post as many views are still unfolding, I have some of these too share for now.

3i Infotech up 3% on Locuz buy
(9 May, 2008, 1100 hrs IST, INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK)

India Hot Stocks: 3i Infotech rises after stake buy
(REUTERS)

3i Infotech hardens on acquisition
{Capital Market
Friday, May 09, 2008 (New Delhi)}

Cheers!

Uttam

We are left with these last few days in the FY (31-March). Our business is up 90% this year and that is stupendous growth – one would say. Perhaps it is, especially when the segment (Enterprise SI and Infra Services) grew in the range of 28%.

This has been an eventful year at Locuz.

Projects and technology deployed by us remained of leading edge nature with some industry firsts again added.

Among other events –

Merger and then No-Merger

We stayed hot investment opportunity with just about everyone wanting to buy us out. We did take up a proposal and soon will announce.

This was another year with several accolades from partners like Cisco and Industry notably the special jury award at DQ Channel Excellence Awards.

The coming year will see us as a major force in 2 areas; first, Adaptive Enterprise providers/transformers and second being Remote Infrastructure Management – not be mistaken for what everyone else provides. Our is again doing it the Adaptive Enterprise – SOI & SOM way. And nobody does it this way – truth is nobody knows how to deliver value using SOI & SOM.

SOI & SOM = Service Oriented Infrastructure & Service Oriented Management

Cheers!

Uttam