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February 28, 2010

SaaS vs On-Premise - Which is a Better Fit for You

By: Ahmar Abbas
“Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings continue to grow impressively,” says Ahmar Abbas, senior vice president, remote infrastructure management of CSS Corp., a global IT company. “SaaS-only vendors have arisen in all key software domains and have successfully challenged the packaged software application companies.”

Read Pam Baker's full article at Forecasting Clouds site.

December 28, 2009

10 Big Cloud Trends for 2010

By: Ahmar Abbas
A move to simpler cloud pricing models

As providers add in more options and services, the pricing complexity increases. Amazon, for instance, has a calculator for estimating the cost of bandwidth transfers, load balancing and elastic IP. 2010 may see a proliferation of "all-you-can-eat pricing models," where a user contracts for a set number of hours that includes a range of services, said Ahmar Abbas, senior vice president of remote infrastructure management at CSS Corp., an IT services and consulting firm in San Jose, Calif.

Read 10 Big Cloud Trends for 2010 ComputerWorld article here

December 24, 2009

Beyond Cloud 101: The Next Steps of Cloud Innovation - By Ahmar Abbas

By: Ahmar Abbas
More small and medium sized businesses are turning to cloud computing to handle a broader range of IT processes previously managed in house. For organizations now considering cloud computing, the technological terminology can be a bit confusing if not daunting. This brief review of different cloud computing options and trends will help IT decision-makers at small and medium sized companies make th right choice for their enterprises.

The key accomplishment for 2009 is that we finally were able to get a workable taxonomy for cloud computing. Read rest of Article at Fresh Business Thinking website.

December 18, 2009

The Changing Role Of The IT Manager

By: Ahmar Abbas
Ahmar Abbas, senior vice president of global infrastructure management for CSS Corporation (www.csscorp.com), says that the IT manager, as the manager of a portfolio of services, will need to evolve into a product developer—one who can quickly create and deliver cost-effective IT services to the business.

Read The Changing Role of The IT Manager on Processor.com here.

December 14, 2009

Windows 7 Compatibility Testing Offering - Partnership with ChangeBase

By: Ahmar Abbas
CSS is committed to offering our customers the optimum solutions for aligning IT to business objectives at all times," says Ahmar Abbas, Senior Vice President of CSS Managed Infrastructure Services. "The launch of Windows 7 has seen a surge for large-scale migration projects and it is critical that any application compatibility issues are dealt with quickly and effectively. Whereas its competitors are only able to identify application compatibility issues, ChangeBASE AOK is able to automatically fix the vast majority of problems that it identifies. This market-leading proposition matches CSS' own ambitions and is a natural fit with our business strategy. Through our work with ChangeBASE AOK, we can now ensure that multinational corporations, mid-sized companies and public sector bodies can undertake migration projects, such as the move to Windows 7, safe in the knowledge that application compatibility issues will be addressed quickly and cost effectively."

Read full article on the partnership at IT Analysis.

January 30, 2007

Recommended reading list for grid developers

By: Ovais Khan
Edna Nerona in an IBM Developer Work article, recommends a list of reading material for grid developers and researchers. Some of the important links are being provided here, For rest see the actual article.Read Full Article...

Link | 30 January 07 @ 08:25 | Discuss ( 26 comments ) | More from: Grid Programming | Views ( 3856  Views)

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