ForeThought - RCV Innovations

ForeThought Real world is full of people. We have phone books,yellow pages, maps and postal addresses to get to them. Real world is governed by laws, rules and norms. Digital world is full of devices and devices only(severs, desktops, appliances, gadgets etc..) In the digital world, We have DNS, IP Addresses/SMTP mail address, Routers/gateways. All of these methods are still rudimentery to lookup and locate attributes, features and functions of devices. Most devices serve a useful purpose. some of them are misused to inflict pain and damage in the digital world. Clear knowledge attributes, features and functions of devices can hel in reducing the risk and help us in responding to misuse of these devices. An idea of a Global Directory Service -- for locating Devices worldwide....These devices are attributed to People, Resources and Services.... This type of service can help in Asset tracking, Monitoring, Communications, Incident response, forensics and Da...

ForeThought Consolidatation is one of the Buzzword used to rationalize spending money on new Infrastructure products and technologies. The Arguments almmost always centers around reducing the management costs(both in terms of people and infrastructure). While I agree on this premise for consolidation, I have my reservations on the effectiveness of the exercise If it is not performed with a holistic approach. There are often independent consolidation projects for: Datacenter Consolidation Server Consolidation Storage Consolidation Network Redesign/Consolidation Database consolidation Application Server consolidation There are lot of cycles spent on justification, discovery, redesign, implementation and testing of each of the above initiatives. Some times the conclusions from each of the exercise is contrary to each other. A Storage consolidation effort does not gel well with Database consolidation etc. etc....