N Vijaykumar

"Virtualization is having a huge impact on infrastructure architectures, processes and operations, people and skills, and the business. It is the most important and impactful trend in infrastructure and operations through 2012 - changing how you manage, how/what you buy, how you deploy, how you plan, how you charge."  - Dave McClure, Gartner There is a marked difference in the way IT infrastructure has been seen and used over the past few years. During the last decade, the focus was on build an infrastructure that would last for the foreseeable future supporting key business objectives. While the trend of the day is to have a more dynamic infrastructure, which can scale-up and scale-out with much ease, IT is expected to be dynamic and scale at the same speed as business expects it to. Moreover, with acquisition and maintenance costs becoming comparatively lower, the... (more)

The Impact of Virtualization on IT Organizations

In the Part 1, I discussed the benefits of virtualization. In Part 2, I will discuss how virtualization impacts the IT organization and the various areas where virtualization plays a key role. Virtualizationomics Over the long run, consolidation and virtualization are sure to yield financial results for the organization. But the challenge is in the initial stages where the investment could be high - owing to new purchases of hardware, software, new / additional data center facilities, etc. Also there is an investment in change management activities - training for the IT staff, p... (more)

Cloud @ 2011: Key Cloud Computing Trends

First, I would like to wish you a very happy and delightful new year. Another year gone by and I hope to see exciting things happen going forward. Information Technology had a tumultuous year in 2010 and is getting back on its feet. Cloud, pervasive and social computing saw good growth last year and this year it could be much more accelerated. 2010 was the year of "whys, whats and hows" in cloud computing, but 2011 will see more questions around "when?" Many organizations were seen experimenting with cloud and validating the suitability and, to a large extent, were convinced that ... (more)