Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts

Friday, October 05, 2012

A Case Against Cloud Computing!

Cloud Computing has been Hyped Ever since its Evolution by Amazon. But Inherent Contradictions in the Concept Threaten its Potential as the next big thing in The IT Services Space.

The sky has been overcast in the global technology world for quite some time now, as cloud computing has been persistently hailed by technology analysts as the next big thing to hit the global IT space, almost like the new normal. The scalability and elasticity of the concept is expected to drive massive adoption. Pioneered by Amazon with modernized data centres during the dot com bubble in the US, cloud computing was quickly sensed as an opportunity as it reduced tremendous cost; and ergo, Amazon came up with the Amazon Web Service (AWS) in 2006 with a utility computing base. Cloud computing in generic terms is based on the Internet, whereby software, services and information is provided on demand and pay per use basis. In general, the user does not own the physical infrastructure and rents it from a third party.

In early 2008, Eucalyptus became the first open source AWS API compatible platform for deploying private clouds. Technology research firm Gartner expects global cloud services revenues to touch $68.3 billion in 2010, a growth of 16.6% yoy. Steve Ballmer of Microsoft has gone on record to say cloud is the future for Microsoft. Similar expectations are being raised even from the folks in India. The Indian IT industry – cloud computing supporters tells us – is aggressively looking to tap into the trend and unleashing plans for fast paced growth. All major players are apparently modelling their service deliveries on the cloud. The current local market is estimated to be worth $110 million and the industry is quite optimistic to reach the levels $1.08 billion by 2015, with SAAS (Software as a Service) contributing $650 million, PAAS (Platform as a Service) and IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service) cumulatively contributing $434 million.
On the surface, it seems that cloud computing is all set to steamroll the data centre industry and make legacy systems obsolete. Scratch the surface, and the hype comes off immediately. The cloud, apparently, has some unresolved holes and the challenges seem to be much bigger than perceived expectations in India. The biggest hurdle for the cloud market to develop is the low bandwidth in India (infrastructure, here too!). Cloud requires a regular high speed internet connection and the average internet speed in India is 772 kbps compared to a global average speed of 1.5 mbps; India, for records, is ranked at the 115th position in the world in the 2009 Akami Technology’s report. The ongoing 3G auction would have been seen as a ray of hope, but the players would still require at least 10 years to be able to make a pan India presence.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Ssssmooch!

Mallika Sherawat is back in Cannes, and this time she has brought a python with her! Hissss is her next film after all, and in order to promote the film Mallika posed and kissed the python before the shutterbugs! Love, Barack is another film she’s starring in and it promises some naughty action, at least as per its poster, which was unveiled at the Festival. Maybe she feels that if her 17 kisses in Khwahish brought her fame in India, a similar trick (with serpents or men) should work in Hollywood too?!


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Monday, July 30, 2012

Death for death, life for life!

While developed nations with high literacy rates and embedded social and moral value systems may choose not to ever impose the death penalty, there is growing logic for supporting capital punishment in nations where there is a significant poor and/or illiterate population that is not sociologically mature enough to understand that killing people is wrong. The IIPM Think Tank scrutinizes this radical, yet damningly convincing ideology

Since the last few years, the debate over abolishment or assumption of capital punishment seems to have simply yo-yo’d between the for and against camps, without any convincing closure or resolution in sight. Yet, in recent haste, the debate has been jump-started out of its reverie in the light of the recent Oslo shoot-out in Norway where Anders Behring Breivik took 77 lives at random. For the uninitiated, Norway abolished capital punishment decades ago – as have all other EU states – and thus, Anders may end up merely serving a prison sentence of 30 years or less for the cold-blooded mass murders. And that too may be reduced once and if Berivik applies for clemency after a few years. In other words, the 32 year old murderer may be out of prison jostling with weekend shoppers and children even before he turns 50. And what if he again grabs a gun and shoots dead a few hundred children more to enstrengthen his schizophrenic ‘apolitical’ cause?

Globally, around 95 countries have abolished capital punishment while around 58 nations are still practicing it. According to the Law Commission of India, India has executed around 4,300 criminals since Independence. However, since August 2004, after Dhananjoy Chatterjee was executed, many other convicts were sentenced to death but their execution is still pending. Since 1976, the US has seen 1265 executions (46 executed in 2010), with 3092 inmates currently on death row.

Looking at this thematically and sociologically, does it mean that in countries like Norway where capital punishment has been abolished, there is a greater propensity for people to commit murders as finally, one never loses one’s life after committing the murder? And vice versa in countries which practice capital punishment? To answer that question, one has to first understand the legacy of the capital punishment debate.

History is testimony to the fact that poverty and illiteracy have had a direct correlation with incidence of crime. Poor and illiterate people are likelier to commit a crime – and eventually get convicted. According to the Hrabowski and Robbi report, published in 1992, there were over 1.5 million Americans imprisoned in adult correctional facilities. Interestingly, out of all 1.5 million imprisoned Americans, around 49% had not completed their high school education. A study by the Arizona Department of Adult Probation in 1997 proved that “the re-arrest rate of probationers who received literacy training was 35%, whereas those who had not received the training were re-arrested at a rate of 46%.” The same research went on to prove that the re-arrest rate of an ‘educated’ prisoner, who cleared GED (General Educational Development) test, is merely 24% while it was found to be 46% for the not-so-educated ones (those who didn’t clear the GED test).


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Thursday, October 30, 2008

While the West is both excited and paranoid about India’s potential, the average Indian is still not empowered as the polity continues to wither India

Very few sitting in India would not hold countries like France in awe. And even fewer sitting in this part of the world would believe if one is to say that an average Frenchman or a British is today as much paranoid aboutThe silence of the lambs... the increasing clout of the Indian economy and Indian Inc as outsourcing to India is becoming a key issue in the US presidential elections. Out on a casual walk on the streets of Paris, chances are high that an average Indian would first of all be asked if he is a Pakistani or a Bangladeshi. Even before the shock and the sheer disgust of being equalled with a Pakistani or a Bangladeshi overwhelms one, the realisation dawns that however much India might go ahead in the race, racially the Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis would still be the same for an average European. So when one visits those places, quite often one has to take the pain of explaining that ‘we are Indians and not Pakistanis.’ Prompt would come the reply, ‘What are you doing here then? There’s so much happening in your own country!!’ If your are on an educational trip, the sarcastic smile would be complimented with a shocking reply, ‘Thank God you are not here for a job’ or ‘What is there to learn from France or Europe? Don’t you see how they are busy splitting it all up in the name of unity? Don’t you see the way they are encouraging the formation of smaller countries like Kosovo? All the jobs are in any case shifting to your country and your neighbour? And now what is that is left to learn?’ Such replies are common and not unjustified either. But it also proves the sheer irony and vindicates the old adage which says that the grass is always greener on the other side of the river....Continue

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Today, brand awareness of Lenovo is 85% in corporates & 74% in consumer space

Two years and many brand building initiatives later, Lenovo is still not a patch on the market leader. But it has survived, and retained the legacy of its parents. Of course there is the frontier of price, for which Rahul states, “We will never claim to be a price leader.” And he reiterates that leadership has to be in terms of best products & customer satisfaction as well. Indeed, the value proposition of Lenovo is strong, but the company has to ensure aggressive pricing as well as to grab more market share. After all, the PC business is a numbers game at the end of the day. Faltering on numbers today will mean letting HP walk away with the honours, perhaps permanently, as it already seems to be doing. But for Lenovo’s sake, one would really like to believe in Neeraj’s exuberance, when he exclaims with élan that, “The tough times are just over and the fun (for Lenovo) has just begun!”
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

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Saturday, August 18, 2007

The National Environment Policy (NEP) Draft Policy 2004, cleared by the Cabinet aft er two years, though propagated as India’s commitment towards a positive contribution to international environmental efforts, actually is a fl aw-filled and near moribund attempt.

The crux of NEP revolves around conservation, livelihood security, integration of environment and social development. But a strange Polluter-Pays-Principle (PPP) approach used extensively in this policy has been framed on the hypothesis that altering the price of the polluting commodity (through pollutant tax) would lead to a reduction in consumption of polluting commodity, thus in a reduction in their production. Sadly, studies reveal that these polluting commodities are primarily exported and are consumed by foreign firms which are relatively highly price inelastic, that is, their demand will not get affected by the proposed pollutant tax.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
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