Cognitive Computing – A New Era of Thinking

Digital computation from number computation to text to rich media computation in the computing era is showing the sign of aging. The next big digital revolution in the current era of computation is trending towards context based computation popularly known as cognitive computing. So, what is cognitive….

Why OpenStack is So Different?

In 2010 Rackspace and NASA came together with a vision to create an open source platform which will help in building and managing various cloud platforms for public and private cloud ecosystem. They went ahead to create OpenStack, a free, open source platform with many groups of….

What’s driving DevOps adoption?

Almost a year from now one of the leading research firm mentioned to be a “science project”. Right now it is expected that OpenStack Revenue will cross $3.3 Billion by 2018. A research done by one of the leading IT organization shows that 88% of enterprises either have or expect to adopt DevOps, compared to 66% in a….

OpenStack Summit 2016

OpenStack Summit this year witnessed a footfall of 7500 odd participants which was an overwhelming number considering the fact that not long ago when the summit commenced for the first time; there were just 75 participants. The summit commenced with keynotes that served as food for thought ranging from….

Key Strategic Acquisitions for VMware

I was keeping a close watch on VMware even before the inception of Calsoft Inc. It was exciting to watch VMware growing from a young Silicon Valley startup to a formidable force in the enterprise market space. It is still growing at a rapid pace even after its merger with EMC and later will Dell. Forbes positioned VMware ast….

Use of Cloud Technologies in Smart City Programme

India’s Economy is growing rapidly. There is massive migration of people from rural to urban areas. Cities are expanding in all directions. Local government is pressurized to expand and increase the physical infrastructure to accommodate the increasing population. Government of India has initiated an ambitious Smart Cities programme to make….

Pros & Cons of vSphere Virtual Storage Appliance

vSphere Virtual Storage Appliance [VSA]: VSA is created for SMBs that either don’t have the budget to buy shared storage hardware or lack the skills to manage…

Deduplication Algorithm

Introduction to Deduplication According to wikipedia, “Data deduplication is a specific form of compression where redundant data is eliminated, typically to improve storage utilization. In the deduplication…

Storage Industry – A recap and the road ahead

Storage industry has evolved in recent years. We have seen more data, and different kinds of data, generated by enterprises in the recent past. However with addition…

All you need to know about cloud storage

Cloud storage is an evolved version of data storage, wherein the valuable data of enterprises are stored in and are accessible from various distributed and connected resources…