The IT stacks we saw and worked with until recently are almost things of the
past now. This change, of course, can be mainly attributed to the Internet
evolution and the way IT is being leveraged these days especially with the
blurring of lines between personal and work-related IT use. The role and
expectations from IT have vastly changed in an increasingly shorter amount of
time than in previous years. The epiphenomenon of these expectations is the
emergence of technologies like cloud computing, mobility, Big Data and social
collaboration. This has had a dramatic and direct impact on how we look at
the IT stack today and in the near future, what we plan to achieve with IT,
how we are going to achieve them, and what skills or acumen we should be
developing in order to succeed.
Of course, there won't just be a single IT Stack per se (no
one-size-fits-all), but we ne... (more)
The Technology Adoption Lifecycle and Gartner's Hype Cycle are well known in
the industry for helping companies make better and informed decisions about
technology adoption and deployment. Both have influenced companies the world
over and through various technology generations. These models however address
only two dimensions - technology maturity and adoption. There is a third and
equally important dimension that looks to understand how new technology
adoption is going to benefit an organization. It's about understanding the
process and the manifestation of possible prosperity, ... (more)
Open source has proven to be a good option for building, managing, and
delivering scalable infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds and
platform-as-a-service (PaaS) clouds. Typically, most open source cloud
platforms support multiple virtualization technologies, giving enterprises a
range of choices from multiple vendors of closed as well as open source
technologies. Some examples are Eucalyptus, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry,
OpenNebula, Red Hat OpenShift, Xen Cloud Platform Project (XCP), and the
newest kid on the block, Citrix Cloudstack 3. While some apprehension still
exists a... (more)
Today's information technology era is driven by software providers of all
shapes and sizes. On the one hand we have big or very big providers who have
established themselves through very sophisticated business models and
ecosystem channels they have invested in for a long time. Tried and tested
business processes enable them to stay ahead of the curve when responding to
new customer demands - either through large investments in new innovations or
because of the market reach they have established over time.
On the other hand, there are several small and medium independent software ... (more)
Undoubtedly one of the key reasons for so many innovations happening in the
information technology space is consumerization. While some feel that
consumerization has reached the tipping point, consumers (and businesses as
well) are still looking for newer avenues to do things more intuitively and
effectively. Video is emerging as the new commodity to enhance the overall
experience of how information and knowledge is shared and also how consumers
and businesses collaborate. Voice is becoming passé and video has the
potential to replace it.
Building solutions that are centered on ... (more)
Jiten Patil is Cloud Expert & Senior Technology Consultant, CTO Office at Persistent Systems, a global leader in software product development and services. He has 14 years of industry experience and has spent the past five years working in the field of SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and Hybrid Cloud Computing solutions. He can be reached at Jitendra_Patil@persistent.co.in
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