This Morning I decided will blog about 8 points that to my mind seem some kind of predictions and just then saw a Google Alert message that had 14 predictions from Chirag Mehta and Wang. They said more than what I was sure and could not have agreed more – then just copeid them over here…

1.Most new procurement will be replaced with cloud strategies

2.Private clouds will serve as a stepping stone to public clouds

3.Cloud customers will stop saying “the cloud is not secured” and start asking hard questions about how the cloud can be secured

4.Public cloud adoption will be temporarily reduced by concerns about cybersecurity. Private clouds will be kept for security and backups.

5.A transition from best-of-breed purpose-built applications to “cloud mega stacks” will occur.

6.App stores will be the predominate channel for application deployment

7.User experience and scale will no longer be mutually exclusive

8.Custom application development will shift to the cloud

9.Development-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service will merge

10.Integration vendors will be expected to offer integration beyond data

11.Consumer tech features such as social business platforms, mobile enterprise capabilities, predictive analytical models and unified communications will continue to proliferate in the enterprise

12.Customers will demand better virtualization

13.The overall technology landscape will simplify thanks to the cloud

14.Archiving and data management will be core competencies for cloud users

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Only when something compeling is said, will I be prompted into copying. Credits to the orginal authors…

Cheers! Uttam

Not one CIO or CTO is avoiding the thought of cloud adoption – plain truth. There could be some who do not have a Business-IT posture Read the rest of this entry »

It is matter of immense responsibility and pride for all of us at Locuz. Sanjeev should be credited with the fact that his decision then helps Samit stay healthy thru tough times like these.

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