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SaaS
& the Indian SMB
Indian SMBs are taking to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
when it comes to applications such as CRM or e-mail.
The market has expanded over the past year on the back
of strong user demand and an expanding ecosystem of
vendors, partners, and third-party service providers.
By Manjari Juneja
Beyond
SAAS
Platform- and Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings
have fewer adherents than SaaS largely because the latter
has been around for a longer span of time. Today, the
push to IaaS is being spearheaded by service providers
targeting SMBs with these offerings while PaaS is mostly
the preserve of startups at this point. By Venkatesh
Ganesh
Slicing
OPEX with desktop virtualization
Desktop virtualization has much to offer but, while
administrators love it, change management has to be
handled with care. The adoption of this technology has
been fairly widespread in IT/ITES and BFSI with government,
education and manufacturing showing some signs of interest.
By Prashant L Rao
Maintaining
security in the Cloud
As organizations begin to migrate to the Cloud, there
is still considerable confusion about how best to handle
information security. By Manjari Juneja
Data
residency: a thorny issue
The issue of where a Cloud provider stores its customers’
data is a troublesome one. Organizations in verticals
such as BFSI and government/public sector are barred
from allowing their data to be stored outside the country.
Pupul Dutta polls the experts to find out what’s
going on with regards to this facet of the public Cloud
The
Indian government’s Cloud roadmap
With no road map from the centre to hop on to the Cloud,
state governments are doing their own test runs, creating
multiple opportunities for vendors. By Heena Jhingan
Opening
up the Cloud
Open source is playing a dominant role in Cloud computing
changing the platform and application dynamics. Mehak
Chawla evaluates the scope, usage and enthusiasm around
open source software in Cloud computing
Indian
CIOs and the Cloud
Indian CIOs continue to show increased interest in the
Cloud with smaller organizations taking the lead in
deploying critical applications and infrastructure in
the public Cloud. By Rajendra Chaudhary
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