Looking towards the future
May 06th, 2008 by Michael Scott

Mike ScottToday I have been contemplating another milestone: my Birthday. I’m not going to say which one - losing count these days. However, it did start the thought process into looking back and looking forward. In 1998 the IT landscape look a whole lot different, Broadband Internet to the home was in its early days - 256/512 kb/s was seen as amazing and most people were still using dial up connections. Mobile phone ownership was still mainly for business people and mobile internet was in its infancy with WAP - which was not a good experience. Web fever was not at its height but building up nicely to its peak. So what’s happened since? The web bubble burst – however, the web is very much a part of our lives, in business, personally, socially and in the day to day running of our lives – paying bills, travel, banking etc. Broadband has in excess of 15 million connections in the UK and the speed has increased to 8Mb/s as the normal connectivity (if you can get it!) and increasing by the month. Even still it cannot catch up with the pent up demand. So what is going to happen in the next 10 years and what will be the norm then? Who knows but what we can deduce is that we are going to move forward. So I am going to have a guess that the changes will be greater than the last 10 years. So here are my predictions:

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Bringing Production to Development Environment - Raising the bar higher
April 15th, 2008 by Amol Khanapurkar

One does all the due diligence of meeting functional requirements and delivering applications on time. No wonder the application gets popular and starts drawing lots of traffic. In a short span, your data and content bases start to fill up and then the next set of challenges begin - application starts slowing down, scalability becomes a concern and there is not much time to react. Does’nt the situation sound all too familiar? Even today, most organizations deal with it reactively by monitoring applications using system and application monitoring utilities and then more often than not adding hardware. Relief is achieved, but its only a temporary fix. What if the problem recurs soon enough? There is a scope for innovation in this space and that’s exactly what TCS’ Performance Engineering Research Center (PERC) tools have done.

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Consulting for tomorrow
April 08th, 2008 by Bill Thompson

Bill Thompson

I’m in Miami Beach, Florida, for the Accenture Global Convergence Forum. Three days of presentations, debates, discussions and of course some socialising for around 250 delegates drawn from the wide range of companies that do business with this major player in the management consulting, technology services and outsourcing arena.

This morning some of us had breakfast with Mark Foster, Group Chief Executive for Management Consulting and Integrated Markets (big companies tend to have very long job titles for senior executives), following on from his keynote address where he set the scene for our discussions on how to ‘achieve high performance in a multi-polar world’.

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Spamming my calendar.
March 23rd, 2008 by Bill Thompson

Bill Thompson

I have just received my first calendar spam message, and I don’t know whether to be impressed at creativity of the scammers trying to trick me out of my money or depressed that yet another useful network service has been compromised.

It arrived in an email claiming to be from the GLOBAL MAX DELIVER COMPANY in Benin, a typical 419 scam where someone tries to fool the recipient into believing that they can get their hands on large amounts of money.  I deleted the email, as I always do, but then noticed that iCal on my Mac was indicating a new appointment.

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NASSCOM 2008 Mumbai
February 26th, 2008 by Mark Kobayashi-Hillary

Mark Kobayashi-HillaryI recently attended the annual NASSCOM conference in Mumbai. NASSCOM is the National Association of Software and Service Companies - it’s a trade body that acts a bit like a chamber of commerce for the entire Indian hi-tech sector. The annual conference in February is always a great gathering of all the movers and shakers in the Indian tech industry.

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