Editor's Note
Indian IT industry has been working with old fashioned model of operations i.e Application , development and maintenance. It needs to focus on new areas like Cloud services, mobility services and Big data etc. The global delivery model that Indian IT companies pioneered and perfected has been replicated by multinationals and gives no competitive advantage anymore. The advent of cloud has been a great leveler, enabling small, nimble companies to compete more effectively with large players, says Ashok Soota, one of the doyens of Indian IT industry. Some traditional services might get automated, he feels. Ganesh Natarajan, CEO of Zenstar Technologies, also feels commoditization of IT had to happen. Hence, the opportunity is in the cloud. The advent of the cloud has set the stage for a new approach to IT that enables individuals and businesses to choose how they will acquire of deliver IT services, with reduced emphasis on the constraints of traditional software and hardware licensing models, claims David Cearley, from Gartner. Faced with an increasing pressure to justify investments and demand uncertainties, businesses seek flexibility in alternative models. Cloud promises to provide this along with efficiency and agility that businesses seek to adapt to changing market realities. Cloud services span public, private and open source platforms. Almost every IT and Non IT company is running behind cloud. Many product developments IT firms like Microsoft, Google, Amazon etc are already in cloud war to capture the market. Even big player in digital marketing like Adobe has come up with their own model called Creative cloud. This edition of SWENEWS give you some basic understanding of cloud computing and how to deploy windows Azure.
U.Chandrasekhar Editor
Editor
U.Chandrasekhar Editor
Editor