Sankar Vema - Blog Space

We are all familiar with the Apple App Store or Google Play Store we visit every day to download apps, games and necessary updates for our phones and tablets. The app store model revolutionized the marketplace idea, making it easy for both software vendors and consumers to publish and install software without the hassles of software building, distribution and deployment. Read further on CSC HyperThink

While we are seeing a big hype going #SDN way still technical community does not seems to be totally comfortable with SDN. Tom Nolle summarized those missing links in his blog According to him some of the key missing links are 1. Lack of standards for full device control 2. Service control software is missing 3. Multivendor network control a barrier to adoption 4. Managing control traffic in centralized networks 5. Boundary functions are needed

The 10 ICT predictions by IDC for 2014 in APAC: "Death" of BYOD, birth of CYOD One-on-one marketing redefined to become socially and contextually aware Gelocation data to drive opportunities, push regulations Big data as-a-service (BDaaS) New models from mobile and e-commerce boom Tech giants move to adjacent industries Internet of Everything driving products and biz models Partner community platforms to drive biz innovation Software-defined infrastructure formally on agenda Perfect storm for projcet failure from mobility, analytics, social and cloud

Some of the technology disruptions for coming year - Mobile Applications, Devices - Internet of things / Smart Machines / Smart Home - Internet of People (Measurement, connectedness) - Web-Scale IT - Software Defined Anything - Augmented reality applications and business models (e.g. google glass, automotive) - Big Data / BI / Analytic - Artificial Intelligence - Gamification - 3 D Printing - Personal Cloud - Social Media (still exciting :) )

I have been tracking the  paradigm shifts (long since my college days) as the technology evolves. Seen the days of single machine / single user / silo applications to the current trend of complex, distributed, multi-cloud, auto scaling systems. If that is not enough the disruption of machine to machine communication in the form of Internet of Things taking this to a next level. This did not happen overnight. It is a sequential evolution of technology over multiple grow-stabilize cycles over the last 50 years with each new technology triggering a new cycle. Now the rapid adoption of cloud, big data coupled with newer technologies triggering the new cycle which is going to reshape the fundamental of enterprise application development and consumption models. In this new shift that we are witness now... OOP is no longer would be the preferred programming style Next generation application architecture pattern to address auto-scaling, fail safe mechanism Next generation a...

Last night during the dinner chat with one of my old school pal, we stumbled on the topic of current issues that enterprises are stuck with. It went on almost for 30 mins. But what made it less interesting to me is that whole discussion was around cost cutting, our sourcing, rationalization etc., It is really boring, we are still taking about the tip of iceberg. But the question is due we really know what the real challenges are. I am not talking about a laundry list with 30/40/50 items. I am looking why we really have those items? (whatever the count is). I could not get this out of mind and started listing, order, consolidating, prioritizing those items to make sure I am completely confident that as a consultant I am doubly sure about them. Of course, it is debatable. But this is what I think are core problem and rest of list is the symptoms. 1. Dynamic market conditions are forcing business to adopt rapidly while IT is able to respond to this 2. Day by day IT is becoming exp...