Key Highlights
Ramesh G
Director, Windows Client.Ramesh G, Director, Windows Client, Microsoft sketched out the new and unique feature of their latest offering, Windows 7. Going forward from Vista, their key focus areas while designing Windows 7 were flexibility, security and manageability. Windows 7 has improved features like the Bitlocker To Go and the Aplocker, a completely customized taskbar and firewall and encryption protections that have been designed keeping the mind growing concerns over security. Cost cutting has become the top priority for most enterprises, and in line with that there are features in Windows 7 that can enable an enterprise to bring down the cost of their desktop environment. Windows 7 includes a lot of functionality that CIOs are paying separately for today.
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Arijit Datta and Bobby Jacob
Product Manager and Sales Manager, Novell"Most security incidents originate within the enterprise. If the internal infrastructure is secure then most of the concern is addressed when you take that infrastructure on to the cloud. The bigger concern in cloud computing is what really should go onto the cloud. What capacity to use and how much it is costing. People need to do proper capacity analysis and assessment of their existing infrastructure to see what applications they have and how much resources they need. The charges are as well as 10 cents per hour for a Linux machine. A requirement for a test bed to roll out a new application or a momentary peak in load that needs to be answered are some of the instances were cloud computing can help"
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Saji Thopil
Practice Head, Platforms and Storage, Wipro"From huge vertically scaling boxes, we today have this horizontally scaling boxes based on blade servers and high density servers. There are several mid-tier companies who don't have an IT team that can take decisions on which data center to build, what kind of architecture to go for. It's a struggle. We decided to simply the entire process - can we come up with a data center that you can just deploy and go. The space and power challenge was also a challenge. The question was 'how much can you shrink a data center' and we came out with a self contained data center. A radical thought process. A typical example of who could benefit from our Fluid State datacenter would be a company that is just implementing an ERP solution. We have an arm that provides ERP implementation. We work with them to provide not only ERP in a box an entire datacenter with an ERP in a box".
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