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

We are now a Cisco Partner with Silver Certification.

It was the obvious next step in the partnership with Cisco ever since we started. We grew our Cisco Business consistently YOY. The last few years however have been by leaps.

Our approach and methodologies in deploying solutions with our partners like Cisco has been experience clearly well differentiated for our customers, this is further augmented with Silver Certification.

Thanks Customers for all your support thru these 8 years.

Cheers!

Uttam

Chandrayaan-1 India’s unmanned lunar exploration mission by ISRO, has been successfully launched. It has several science goals of finding the still unanswered questions about Moon.

The mission makes us all proud for a second reason too that we at Locuz lead by Preetam Oswal made a contribution. We architected and deployed mission critical Data Storage Infrastructure that over different phases will stage valuable imagery and scientific data transmitted by the spacecraft while orbiting the moon over X-Band at the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC).

We are proud to be associated with the mission.

Cheers!

Uttam

I was in Dubai on the last weekend of August, hosted by Symantec for their Partner Event called – Partner Engage 2008.

It was nicely done event.

We were conferred the award – Partner for Emerging Solutions. This is well deserved because it resonates with our focus on IT Automation and our SOM (Services Oriented Management) strategy.

SOM is the cornerstone of SOI and we have been able to successfully develop blue print for customers that brings enormous visibility into their Enterprise Infrastructure assisting making informed decisions. The relationship between CI’s (Configuration Items) is key to our SOM approach including users (is user a CI? Yes!).

The award by Symantec is to recognize us in helping customers offer technology; processes and sustainable methodology in building the blocks that will make them Adaptive Enterprise.

Thanks and Cheers!

Uttam

Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest scientific experiment is embarked and it will get intense over next few months. The current stage is warm-up and calibration. The scope of the experiment is massive. While we would have all read and heard about the complexity involved including the huge accelerator ring, the collision and guiding technique, the interplanetary space etc and therefore the expected outcome thru findings – Higgs boson, quark-gluon plasma and beauty quark or ‘b quark’ – is hard to get to terms with.

I am excited, more so to realize how the world is coming together and collaborating by exploiting scientific computing and power of network to aid an experiment of this scale. The computing resources within CERN aren’t enough in spite of being really enormous and therefore data is being provided to hundreds of sites around the globe to thousands of physicists contributing to the experiment.

The CERN facility hosts cluster with over 15,000+ cores and is magnitude of several 10 TFlops, plus with over other 6000 PC’s being part of the facility, the storage is 7000 TB as they embark; but as LHC runs full capacity for over 200 days the need to store and process data would change to a magnitude never used before. Every second, 600 million particle collisions are measured, and scientists filter out the thousand or so that are interesting. The electronic ‘photo’ of each event requires 1 to 2Mb of storage. And thru the Tiered model of computation over 100,000 computers are likely to participate.

The data storage requirement will eventually be in the order of 20 petabytes per year.

All the scientists in CERN and across the world demanded a new approach to data storage, management, sharing and analysis – tasks handled by the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project. I had a chance to know little about the LCG from a scientist in TIFR at Mumbai sometime ago. The LCG unlike the conventional Grid is a less overhead protocol and much more efficient.

The Interconnects in use and the job submissions (bear in mind this is not HPC but HTC – High Throughput Computing) is tremendous.

I am glued and will follow the progress closely.

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

This is one technology adoption I am willing to believe will start paying back on the first day onwards. If seeing is believing, I have seen it and you can believe everything I am saying.

We were scouting for the best partnership that will enable us architect a solution delivering TRUE performance.

We chose Data Domain as our partner.

We just concluded a few pilots for some of the large organisations here in India and we stumped ourselves and the customer with the performance. If I am not going wrong with numbers, we managed 8-10x compression.

The logic is quite simple – the more the data, we store more, index more, search more, archive more and spend more. It is important to change this legacy. This is exactly what De-Dupe achieves for businesses.

The solutions we offer are not among solutions that guise to do deliver such benefits but are laser focused.

If de-dupe is the way to go, Locuz has the way to get it done.

Cheers!

Uttam

Arif is bloging and I would advice people who find my writing less interesting read his blog.

Arif is head of Sales in Locuz and the most passionate guy w.r.t Locuz. It is important to have friends like him and I consider myself lucky.

Arif, I read your post on Vishal and had tough time pretending I was normal (Only wished I read it in private)

BTW, you are declared fit in the era of web 2.0, your thoughts and opinions are also deemed fit. Congratulations! Go on, you have an assured reader in me

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

After my last post I did get several enquiries on the news I was to do, it took me longer, anyway here we go… Press Release – (3i Infotech acquires Strategic stake in IT System Integrator Specialist Locuz)

I and Vijay Wadhi had gone out with the new Partner to Beijing for their annual Global Strategy Meet – so this delay.

Kick started with the Great Wall of China witnessing the way forward.

Do read my next post, it will have more details and I will also answer many questions that are likely to be sought over next day or so.

Cheers!

Uttam