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December 28, 200910 Big Cloud Trends for 2010By: Ahmar AbbasA move to simpler cloud pricing modelsAs 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, 2009Beyond Cloud 101: The Next Steps of Cloud Innovation - By Ahmar AbbasBy: Ahmar AbbasMore 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, 2009The Changing Role Of The IT ManagerBy: Ahmar AbbasAhmar 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, 2009Windows 7 Compatibility Testing Offering - Partnership with ChangeBaseBy: Ahmar AbbasCSS 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, 2007Recommended reading list for grid developersBy: Ovais KhanEdna 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 ( 3782 Views)December 22, 2006The Biggest IT IssuesBy: Ahmar AbbasNo longer is it a constant challenge to find space for power and cooling—instead, it’s a challenge to find enough power and cooling to accommodate the equipment that fills that space. Ahmar Abbas, SVP of the remote infrastructure management division of IT services company CSS Corp (www.csscorp.com), says that the introduction of blade servers and similar technologies has dramatically increased server density.Abbas explains that the number of power-consuming elements inhabiting data centers has also increased—a group that includes firewalls, switches, load balancers, intrusion detection systems, DNS appliances, and mail appliances. Further, the growth of raw storage requirements is also increasing in enterprises of all sizes, with IT managers deploying larger storage and backup systems and constantly upgrading capacity. “The over-capacity that existed after the dot-com bubble has been exhausted, and we are fully in the supply-constrained market,” Abbas says. “Consider that Google, Amazon, and others are building large data centers in Oregon—right next to hydroelectric plants. Congress is even holding hearings and may in the future mandate certain efficiency requirements for data center equipment. So, at least for the next two years, we will remain in this market.” Read full article here. |
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