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Aacharya Devo bhava... Dr. Vijay Bhatkar

Apple and Steve jobs have been my favorite place and person. I have been following apple since the retun of Steve jobs and own 5 apple devices dating back to a decade. I am happy to see the iCloud announcement. This is a strategic move for apple to drive the cloud+appliance model that apple has so successfully built from the itunes/ipod days. The fact that it is harnessing appstore ecosystem and developers coupled with the "free" price tag will drive cloud adoption to the next level. It is fundamentally changing definiton of Cloud from Application/Platforms/Infrastructure to a higher level abstraction of identity, information and will provide apple new insight into the content that is dear to people. This will result in making apple smarter about identifying trends and designing features into the products they build making those products even more compelling. The philosophy making it Simple, Secure and Scalable so that "it just works" is brilliant. This is...

Cloud computing is the most recent paradigm shift in Information technology. While it is not a result of any major technological breakthrough, Cloud Computing feeds on the advances in scalability and affordability of Power, Cooling, Security and Virtualization of Servers/Storage/Networking technologies. The most comprehensive industry accepted definition of Cloud computing is from NIST “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction “ The cornerstone of cloud computing is a new operational service model (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and new IT Infrastructure deployment model (Private, Community, Public and Hybrid Cloud) The Prudence of Indian Government policies coupled with Industry enthusiasm have been fruitful to revolutionize informatio...

Our Team(at Sify) has been fortunate to assocate ourselves with Tidal and newscale in building the first prototype of Cloud Services Delivery Framework Demo in Dubai NewScale is definitely a well thought out service catalog and workflow environment with rich set of Webservices API's. It is completely complementaty to TIDAL and LineSider as it solves a very real need to create and mange the product/service lifecycle in a Cloud computing environment. It is a excellent choice for Integrating with VBLOCK/EMC IONIX for Baremetal Provisioing of Servers/Storage along with LineSider for Network Automation coupled Tidal Enterprise Orchestrater to realize most of the Public and Private Cloud Use cases. It is a good move Cisco-Tidal, VCE/VBlock and the Cloud computing story from Cisco.

Cloud computing is raising the expectation on the agility, availability and access to sophisticated computing and communication platforms for small and medium business. Today most critical IT components for running a successful business are available as SaaS, PaaS or IaaS platforms. There is little value in recreating all these services from the scratch by a new age service provider. It may be prudent to create a skeletal platform for essential services while taking a position of services broker to organize a rich portfolio by aggregating important services into tightly knit IT-as-a –Service offering. The initial target market for such a service provider is Small and Medium Business. We will review aspirations and capabilities needed to serve the ever increasing expectations of small and medium customers from a modern service provider. The Vision, Strategy and Execution plan to create a modern Information Technology as a Service (ITaaS) provider infrastructure is described on the...

There are three aspects to Cloud Automation: 1. Provisioning 2. Change Managment 3. Security/Compliance Provisioning is typically across domains and is better enabled by strong service orchestration platforms that understand both the business(CRM/BSS etc) and the technology stack. Tidal has a edge in this context with its strong background supporting Enterprise Software integration(SAP etc.) and Runbook automation use cases with its flagship product(Tidal Scheduler). Its recent focus on intelligent network automation using tidal enterprise orchestrator platform is paying off. However it's UI capability seems to be weaker than Linesider from a cloud worldview LineSider addresses provisioning from access management and compliance perspective with decent user inteface and simple VM/appliance based delivery model for demonstrating technical provisioning capabilities. Today Cisco announced the intention to buy Pari Networks. http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2011/corp_012611.htm...

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