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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Cloud Computing

What is Cloud computing
Cloud computing is internet based development and use of computer technology. Cloud computing provides various business applications which are developed on internet and can be accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers. These applications are broadly divided into the following categories: Software as a Service (SaaS), Utility Computing, Web Services, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Managed Service Providers (MSP), Service Commerce, and Internet Integration.


Cloud Computing Taxonomy
Layer
– Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
– Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
– Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
– Data Storage-as-a-Service (DaaS)
– Communication-as-a-Service (CaaS)
– Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS)
Type
– Public cloud
– Private cloud
– Hybrid cloud


Security Issues in Cloud Computing
European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), European Network and Information Security has addressed on this issue with a comprehensive report - Cloud Computing: Benefits, Risks and Recommendations for Information Security The report deals with various political, technical and legal issues and various recommendations on how to maximize the benefits for the users. It tackles with 35 major security risks and privacy issues concerning a transition into Cloud Computing.
To know how can it be safe to reveal in a cloud your data providers and, in some cases the entire company's infrastructure; the report was produced based on various checklists depending on various cloud computing scenarios, focusing on commercial customer's need.


RSA has published a Guide to Cloud Security - Identity and Data Protection in the Cloud: Best Practices for Establishing environments of trust. This guide, which was written jointly by experts from the security company EMC, RSA and VMware gives an overview of cloud-specific security and compliance requirements. It says Clouds may exceed the safety level of conventional IT infrastructures in the future. Various guidelines and protocols can be implemented directly in the Clouds in the virtualization layer. With fully functional cloud computing, the result is a potential would be leaner, smarter security architectures than what is currently available.


Advantages - Companies wishing to migrate their IT environment to a virtualized cloud. Nobody needs to start from scratch. To protect users from cyber attack on cloud and unauthorized access, it can have authentication and fraud detection systems build on a multi layer platform that also cope with phishing and other forms of information theft.


Disadvantages - The highest hurdle from security point of view, according to guidelines in the lack of trust between providers of cloud infrastructures and their potential customers.


Cloud Computing Evolution : The Revolution in World Business
With evolving Cloud Computing, the entire information economy would permanently change their technologies and their business and thus affecting the relationships between suppliers and customers. With respect to the outsourcing of IT services, cloud computing can be provided as needed in real time and flexible as a service via the internet or within a corporate network and billed according to usage. These outsourced IT services can be related to software platforms for the development and operation of applications and the basic infrastructure, or about the space. The use of cloud computing will benefit all professional users, small and start-up companies without large investments. Moreover outsourced IT companies can easily collaborate virtually with other companies in order to increase their product and service offerings and to combine them. SMEs benefit from the efficient and fast access to global competition. Large companies can absorb demand peaks quickly and cheaply. In such firms, the demand for computing power, is highly variable, currently the internal IT department is usually not designed for peak loads.


Various initiative for Cloud Computing


IBM with the largest Cloud computing Environment
The Cloud enables employees to access information scattered around the world. This should lead to better decisions at point of sale and help to anticipate business opportunities and be able to react quickly. The Cloud provides a framework for business analysis, regardless of where the company has the employee's location. IBM is not only the provider of BI solutions including SMB category, it has the world's largest cloud computing environment.
IBM employees will receive the Cloud access to structured and unstructured data. Sales using real-time data to understand sales opportunities and anticipate how much revenue will be generated in their region. Product development teams to analyze sales information, industry trends and customer perspective and use them for product innovation. Engineers have finally consumed in production processes through real-time data to adjust processes and improve delivery times.


Future Outlook
IDC predicts growth of European Cloud services of €971m in 2008 to €6,005m in 2013. The extent and flexibility of cloud computing is numerous, operators can instantly activate additional filters, re-routing and issue new security patches more efficiently.
The market growth of cloud computing is impressive. Market researchers at Gartner, estimated the current global market rate for the year 2008 with over 46 billion U.S. dollars. By 2013 this figure should rise to over 150 billion U.S. dollars.
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Cloud Computing

What is Cloud computing
Cloud computing is internet based development and use of computer technology. Cloud computing provides various business applications which are developed on internet and can be accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers.

Blog :: Cloud Computing

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Exclusive news : Search Bing, No Googling

Several other news companies such as The Sun, The Times and The Wall Street Journal have considered blocking Google after the launch of paid content strategy. Still earning majority of its revenue from advertisements, would it make a big difference to Google?

Blog :: Exclusive news : Search Bing, No Googling

Exclusive news : Search Bing, No Googling

Exclusive news : Search Bing, No Googling


Rupert Murdoch said that he would remove contents of News Corporation from Google search as a way to encourage people to pay for online content. Several other news companies such as The Sun, The Times and The Wall Street Journal have considered blocking Google after the launch of paid content strategy. Still earning majority of its revenue from advertisements, would it make a big difference to Google?


On the other side, Microsoft's Bing is trying to connect with News Corporation and Microsoft might agrees to pay Murdoch for exclusive rights to list the published content. With such a deal, Bing would pull people away from Google plus Murdoch will have little more money in his pockets. Would this be another fall-back as myspace for king of print media?


For more details - 'Rupert Murdoch Is Quitting Google, Leaving Readers With Only Millions Of Other Web Sites To Choose From
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

TV Commercial – Tata Safari Dicor “Reclaim your Life”

Philosophical to the core, the advertisement focuses on an emotive appeal addressing a subliminal unmet behavioral need urging you to step on your wild side. This one asks you to “Reclaim your Life” and shows possible ways how people could actually go about doing it!

Blog :: TV Commercial – Tata Safari Dicor “Reclaim your Life”

Friday, September 25, 2009

NHS becomes largest consulting market

National Health Service now spends more on consultancy than the entire UK manufacturing industry. Financial services and central government contracts continue to be the most lucrative markets for consulting firms and account for over half the total fee income gain recorded for all consultancy markets combined.

Blog :: NHS becomes largest consulting market

Monday, August 17, 2009

Consulting within an SI? the TCS way

TCS is enhancing its mix, but does it have the size, offerings and relationships to trouble its competition? The key will be leveraging its differentiators and educating on its enhanced capabilities to overcome the ‘I didn’t know TCS did that’ hurdle. Ultimate success will be the achievement of certain KPIs – building consulting revenues, margins and a level of pull-through. To date TCS has shown substantial patience during the integration programme, but will start to expect increasing delivery against these metrics

Blog :: Consulting within an SI? the TCS way

Saturday, August 08, 2009

New Productivity Tools - Google Wave & Colayer

Google Wave
- Google Wave is a powerful feature for collaboration (like instant messaging, email, web communication) & Social networking.
- Google Wave integrates IM, mail, wiki, docs, blog, map, search, photos and more likely audio & video into one single application.
- Google announced about Google wave almost the same day as Microsoft Bing's Release. - Some say it as Twitter killer apps.
Colayar
- Colayer's focus is on business users.
- Those who wants communication tools for organizing fragmentation of information and maintaining single copy of information to minimize information overload.
- Colayar also uses SMS for instant interaction apart from emails and instant messaging services as used by Google Wave.
- With Colayar, multiple people can work simultaneously on documents for knowledge management.




Their Effects
No doubt complication might challenge a normal user's aptitude to cope with such huge application, but still there seem lots of advantages :


- Integrated communication applications.
- Concurrent real time document editing / updating for Knowledge Management.
- Playback Context Revision.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Content Management System Comparison



Product DotNetNuke 4.4.0 Drupal 5.0 Joomla! 1.0.7 Liferay Portal / CMS 3.6.1 Mambo 4.6.1 WordPress 1.5 (Strayhorn) Dragonfly CMS 9.0.6.1 Jaws 0.6.3 Komodo CMS v4.0 Verso 3.0.
System Requirements
Application Server IIS PHP 4.3.3+ Apache recommended, any server that supports PHP and MySQL Tested compatibility with Borland ES 6.5, JBoss 4.0.2, JOnAS 4.4.3, JRun 4 Updater 3, OracleAS 10.1.2, Orion 2.0.6, Pramati 4.1, RexIP 2.5, Sun JSAS 8.01, WebLogic 8.1 SP4, WebSphere 5.1 PHP 4.1.2+ Apache recommended, any server that supports PHP and MySQL Apache recommended, any server that supports PHP and MySQL Apache recommended, any server that supports PHP and MySQL PHP 4.3.0+ CFMX 6.1 and up
Approximate Cost Free Free Free Free Free Free From US$3,000 per annum 4500
Database MSSQL 2005/2000, MSSQL Express 2005, MSDE MySQL, Postgres MySQL DB2, Firebird, Hypersonic, InterBase, JDataStore, MySQL, Oracle, PSQL MySQL MySQL 3.23.23 or later MySQL recommended MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite MySQL 4.1+ +Oracle
License BSD (Modified) GNU GPL GNU GPL MIT Open Source non-restrictive business friendly license GNU GPL GNU GPL GNU GPL GNU LGPL Commercial, Annual By domain
Operating System Windows Any Any Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, Linux, Solaris Any OS Independent Linux, Windows Any Hosted Solution ColdFusion MX combatible system configuration
Programming Language ASP.NET 2.0, VB.NET PHP PHP Java 1.4. + PHP PHP 4.1.0 or later PHP 4.3 or later PHP 4.2.2 or later PHP 4.3 or later Flash Actionscript
Root Access No No No Yes Yes No No No Yes Costs Extra
Shell Access No No No Yes Yes No No No Yes No
Web Server IIS 5.0 & IIS 6.0 Apache, IIS Apache Tested compatibility with Jetty 5.1.4, Resin 3.0.14, Tomcat 5.0.x/5.5.x Apache, IIS, any PHP enabled web server, but Apache Recommended Apache, mod_rewrite Apache Apache, IIS, any PHP enabled web server, but Apache Recommended Apache IIS 5.0 & IIS 6.0
Security
Audit Trail Limited Yes No Yes No Limited No Free Add On Yes No
Captcha Yes Free Add On Yes No Yes No No Yes No No
Content Approval Limited Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Limited Free Add On Yes Yes
Email Verification Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Granular Privileges Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Limited Yes Yes Yes
Kerberos Authentication Free Add On No No No No No No No No No
LDAP Authentication Yes Free Add On Free Add On Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No
Login History Yes Yes Yes Yes Free Add On Free Add On No Yes Yes Yes
NIS Authentication No No No No No No No No No No
NTLM Authentication Yes No No No No No No No No No
Pluggable Authentication Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
Problem Notification Yes No No No No Limited Yes No Yes No
Sandbox Yes No No Yes No Limited No No Yes Yes
Session Management Yes Yes Yes Yes Limited No Yes Free Add On Yes Yes
SMB Authentication No No No No No No No No No No
SSL Compatible Yes Yes No No Free Add On No No Yes Yes Yes
SSL Logins Free Add On No No No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
SSL Pages Free Add On No No No Free Add On No No Yes Yes No
Versioning Limited Yes Yes Yes Limited No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Support
Certification Program Yes No No No No No Yes No No No
Code Skeletons Yes Yes No No No No No No
Commercial Manuals Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Costs Extra No Yes Yes
Commercial Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Costs Extra No Yes Yes
Commercial Training Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Costs Extra No Yes Yes
Developer Community Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Online Help Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes
Pluggable API Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
Professional Hosting Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Costs Extra No Yes Yes
Professional Services Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Costs Extra No Yes Yes
Public Forum Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Public Mailing List Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Test Framework Yes Free Add On No No No No No No
Third-Party Developers Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Users Conference Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No Yes No
Ease of Use
Drag-N-Drop Content Yes No No Yes No No No Yes No Yes
Email To Discussion Costs Extra Free Add On Free Add On No No No No No Yes Yes
Friendly URLs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Image Resizing Free Add On Free Add On Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Macro Language Yes Free Add On Yes No Yes No No No No No
Mass Upload Yes Free Add On No No No No Yes No No Yes
Prototyping Yes No Yes No No No No No Yes No
Server Page Language Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Spell Checker Free Add On Free Add On No Yes Yes Free Add On No Yes Yes No
Style Wizard Yes No No No No No Yes Yes
Subscriptions Yes Free Add On No No No Yes Yes No Yes No
Template Language Yes Limited Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
UI Levels Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Undo Limited Limited No No Yes No Yes No No No
WYSIWYG Editor Yes Free Add On Yes Yes Yes Free Add On Yes Yes Yes Yes
Zip Archives Yes No No No No Yes No Yes
Performance
Advanced Caching Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No No No
Database Replication No No No No No No No No No No
Load Balancing Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No Yes No
Page Caching Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Free Add On Yes No Yes No
Static Content Export Yes No No No No No No No Yes Yes
Management
Advertising Management Yes Free Add On Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
Asset Management Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Limited Yes No Yes Yes
Clipboard Limited No No No Yes No No No Yes No
Content Scheduling Yes Free Add On Yes Yes Yes Limited Yes No Yes No
Content Staging Yes No No No No No No No Yes Yes
Inline Administration Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
Online Administration Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Package Deployment Yes No No No Yes No No No Yes Yes
Sub-sites / Roots Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No Yes No
Themes / Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes
Trash Yes No Yes No Yes No No No No Yes
Web Statistics Yes Yes Yes No Yes Free Add On Yes Yes Yes Yes
Web-based Style/Template Management Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Web-based Translation Management Yes Yes Free Add On Yes Yes Limited No No No No
Workflow Engine Free Add On Limited No No No No No No Yes Yes
Interoperability
Content Syndication (RSS) Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
FTP Support Yes Limited Free Add On No No Limited No No Yes Free Add On
UTF-8 Support Yes Yes Limited Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
WAI Compliant Limited Limited No No Limited Limited No No Yes Yes
WebDAV Support Limited No No No No No No No No No
XHTML Compliant Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Flexibility
CGI-mode Support No Yes No No No No Yes Yes No No
Content Reuse Yes Limited Yes No Limited No No No Yes Yes
Extensible User Profiles Yes Yes Yes No Free Add On No Yes Yes No Yes
Interface Localization Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Metadata Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Multi-lingual Content Free Add On Yes Free Add On Yes Free Add On Free Add On Yes No Yes Yes
Multi-lingual Content Integration Free Add On Free Add On Free Add On Yes Free Add On Free Add On No No No Yes
Multi-Site Deployment Yes Yes Free Add On Yes Free Add On No No Yes Yes Yes
URL Rewriting Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wiki Aware Yes Free Add On Free Add On Yes Limited Free Add On No No No No
Built-in Applications
Blog Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Chat Free Add On Free Add On Free Add On Yes Free Add On No Free Add On Yes Yes Yes
Classifieds Free Add On No Free Add On No Free Add On No Free Add On No No Yes
Contact Management Yes Free Add On Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Data Entry Yes Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On No Yes No Yes Yes
Database Reports Yes No Free Add On No Free Add On No No No Yes Yes
Discussion / Forum Yes Yes Free Add On Yes Free Add On No Yes No Yes No
Document Management Yes Limited Free Add On Yes Free Add On No Free Add On No No Yes
Events Calendar Yes Free Add On Free Add On Yes Free Add On Free Add On Free Add On No Yes Yes
Events Management Yes Free Add On No No Free Add On No No No
Expense Reports Costs Extra No Free Add On No No No No No No No
FAQ Management Yes Yes Yes No Yes Limited Free Add On Yes No Yes
File Distribution Yes Free Add On Free Add On Yes Free Add On No Free Add On Yes Yes Yes
Graphs and Charts Costs Extra No Free Add On No Free Add On No No No No Yes
Groupware Free Add On Free Add On Free Add On Yes Free Add On No No No No No
Guest Book Yes Free Add On Free Add On Yes Free Add On No Free Add On No No Yes
Help Desk / Bug Reporting Costs Extra Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On No Free Add On No Yes Yes
HTTP Proxy Free Add On No No Yes No No No No No No
In/Out Board Costs Extra No No No No No No No No No
Job Postings Free Add On Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On No No No No No
Link Management Yes Free Add On Yes Yes Yes Yes Free Add On Yes Yes Yes
Mail Form Yes Free Add On Yes No Yes Free Add On Yes Yes Yes Yes
Matrix No No No No No No No No
My Page / Dashboard Yes Free Add On No Yes Free Add On Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Newsletter Yes Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On Free Add On Yes No Yes Yes
Photo Gallery Yes Free Add On Free Add On Yes Free Add On Free Add On Yes Yes Yes Yes
Polls Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Free Add On Yes Yes Yes Yes
Product Management Free Add On Free Add On Yes No Free Add On No Free Add On No Yes Yes
Project Tracking Costs Extra Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On No Free Add On No No No
Search Engine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Site Map Yes Free Add On Free Add On Yes Free Add On No No Yes Yes Yes
Stock Quotes Costs Extra Free Add On No No Free Add On No No No
Surveys Yes Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Syndicated Content (RSS) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Tests / Quizzes Costs Extra Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On No Free Add On No Yes Yes
Time Tracking Costs Extra Free Add On No No No No No Yes No Yes
User Contributions Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Weather Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On Free Add On Yes No No
Web Services Front End Free Add On No Free Add On No No No No No No No
Commerce
Affiliate Tracking Yes Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On No Yes No Yes No
Inventory Management Costs Extra Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On No No No No Yes
Pluggable Payments Costs Extra Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On No No No No Yes
Pluggable Shipping Costs Extra Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On No No No No No
Pluggable Tax Costs Extra Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On No No No No No
Point of Sale Costs Extra No Free Add On Yes Free Add On No No No No No
Shopping Cart Free Add On Free Add On Free Add On Yes Free Add On No Free Add On No Yes Yes
Subscriptions Yes Free Add On Free Add On No Free Add On No No No Yes Yes
Wish Lists No Free Add On Free Add On No No No No No No Yes
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