Sourya Biswas

How One City Embraced Virtualization As The Key To Success

June 14, 2013

How One City Embraced Virtualization as the Key to Success “The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.”                                                                                                –  Daniel P. Moynihan (1927-2003), American politician. You won’t normally associate Government with speedy decision-making,

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Leading The Analytics Charge

June 5, 2013

CloudCheckr Over the past few years, there has been an explosive growth in cloud computing, mainly due to the cost efficiencies of its pay-as-you-go model as compared to legacy IT. However, many companies that have migrated to the cloud have

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IBM Makes Deal “Fashionable” With L’Oréal Deal

May 15, 2013

NEWS: IBM L’Oréal Deal “It is wiser to find out than to suppose.”                                                               – Mark Twain (1835-1910), legendary author and humorist. There was once a time when businesses were done through intelligence guesswork – you guessed what your customers would

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Get Real Benefits From Virtualization

March 14, 2013

Online VMware Forum 2013: Get Real Benefits from Virtualization “Virtual” is usually a poor substitute for “real” – would you prefer playing Guitar Hero instead of rocking on stage? However, there’s one field where “virtual” can actually be better than

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Online Collaboration: The Explosion Of Human Knowledge

October 2, 2012

Cloud Collaboration The Power of Me We “Are you a team player?” – If you’ve interviewed for any position in the last five years, chances are you would have heard this question. But have you ever wondered what has made teamwork

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Collaboration Clouds: The Logical Next Step To Cloud Computing

August 14, 2012

Collaboration Clouds “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” – Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest basketball player ever. For those who follow basketball, Michael Jordan needs no introduction. For the rest, here are the basic facts. Jordan holds the

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To Join The Search For The God Particle

May 21, 2012

The God Particle Ever since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, went active in 2008, speculation has been rife that the elusive Higgs boson, a hypothetical elementary particle that should explain why fundamental particles

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How The Cloud Broker Can Help Your Business

May 9, 2012

Hiring A Cloud Broker The dictionary defines a “broker” as “a person who functions as an intermediary between two or more parties in negotiating agreements, bargains, or the like.” Almost all of us, at some point in our lives, have

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“Waiting For Cloud Standards Is Like Waiting For Godot”

April 16, 2012

Waiting For Godot The title of this post comes from one of the more interesting comments made during the Twitter chat on 12 April focusing on the interactions between the public and private clouds, and how converged clouds may be

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(Super)computing On the Cloud

January 9, 2012

Supercomputing On the Cloud $1279 an hour – seems a lot to hire a computer, right? What if it’s a supercomputer capable of performing 240 trillion calculations per second, or 240 teraflops (a flop is the acronym for floating point

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Interview: Mr. Avinoam Nowogrodski – CEO & Co-Founder (Clarizen)

September 27, 2011

Interview: Mr. Avinoam Nowogrodski – CEO & Co-Founder (Clarizen) Avinoam brings over 20 years of experience in sales, engineering and business management positions to Clarizen. Avinoam co-founded Clarizen with the vision to simplify the way companies manage their projects. Prior

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What Are Cloud Computing Risks vs Benefits

September 16, 2011

Cloud Computing Risks vs Benefits On the average, over the last decade more than 40,000 people have been killed annually in automobile accidents in the United States. Now, this may give the impression that road travel is dangerous, and, if

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Zynga, the Latest Computing Success

July 13, 2011

Zynga – Cloud Computing Success The business world is abuzz with the upcoming Zynga IPO which is expected to raise $1 billion from investors and value the gaming company as high as $20 billion. Just for the record, Zynga is

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Gaming as a Service – The Future of Technology

March 15, 2011

Gaming as a Service “Gaming is no child’s play; it’s big business!” Quick, what’s the first thing that comes to mind when you visualize gaming? If you are thinking “unsocial teenager whose only exercise is moving his fingers on the

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How AI technology can create new jobs

March 3, 2011

How Cloud Computing Can Create Jobs As Peter Drucker wrote, new technologies do not reduce employment; they simply raise the level of skill required to be employed. Those who can change, prosper; those who can’t, have to settle for low-paying

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