Private Clouds: hot favorites for enterprises

With enterprise IT organizations trying to leverage maximum efficiency with cost savings, adoption of cloud computing - both private and public turns out to be the latest fad in its deployment of resources. Private clouds are adopted at widespread and accelerating rates than it was suggested by the previous researches, says a survey by Novell. 
Private Clouds: hot favorites for enterprises


Companies are particular about simplifying management across their integrated physical, virtual and cloud environments but with cloud computing in focus, whether they can attain it with minimal risk is a point to ponder. 77 percent of the large enterprises organizations use some form of cloud computing today, much higher than previously suggested. 89 percent of respondents in these organizations believe private clouds are the next step to the already implementing virtualization while 43 percent are planning to use a combined approach of private and public cloud computing. 31 percent find that a key benefit to private cloud computing is the ability to manage a heterogeneous infrastructure. 87 percent believe that public cloud computing will naturally take its course over company owned data centers and 92 percent think of it as an alternative to the current IT platforms.

Private cloud computing earns the advantage over public cloud computing when it comes to the matter of security concern. 91 percent are concerned about security issues in the public cloud, with 50 percent indicating security as the primary barrier to implementation whereas 86 percent believe data is more secure in a private cloud. Private cloud computing provides freedom from maintaining hardware, lower cost upkeep, resource scalability, lower initial costs. 76 percent showed more confidence in internal IT departments for providing data security than outside vendors.

"The survey results are telling," said Jim Ebzery, senior vice president and general manager of Security, Management and Operating Platforms at Novell. "The path to public cloud computing needs to begin with the private cloud, learning to leverage the public cloud within the safety of the enterprise network. Despite these concerns, enterprises are moving forward with cloud computing -- whether in a private cloud, public cloud or in a hybrid cloud environment". 

Top 10 excuses why techies don't give projects on time

When engineering projects are not delivered on time, whom do we blame for that? Clients are known to be the most stubborn people on earth to get their job done. All they understand is that they pay for the service and find no reason for not being demanding. Some engineers do face genuine issues but some try to take advantage of the genuine situations and it would be hard to believe that such a situation might not have been faced by the engineers. 
Top 10 excuses why techies don't give projects on time


No matter, whatever changes are incorporated in the IT sector to make it more lean and adaptive, the delivery of projects would be delayed at some point of time and the techies know how to get away with it. With India being one of the fastest growing markets in IT and ITeS space, SiliconIndia conducted a small survey to see what are the excuses which techies in India normally bet upon. And here are the top 10 reasons that make them hunt for more time to get their projects done. 

1) Requirement Slippage: "What can I do, if the client does not stick to his requirements?" Any techie you come across must have either made this excuse or must have come across it. Many times, when the team members in a particular project are about to complete the project keeping the client requirements in mind, they are insisted to either make certain changes in the project or bring in some addition to it. Requirement slippage is a genuine problem faced by team members in a project but many times it becomes the easiest excuse for any techie if the project is delayed. This excuse is often validated by the organization and the team members can easily prove themselves impeccable.

2) Wrong Project estimation: Project estimation is usually given by a module leader who is not deeply associated with the project. He or she is the one who builds relationship between the client and the project team and integrates the module's findings into the broader project work. Usually when the project demands some more time to be delivered, the team members crib about the project not being estimated in an appropriate manner. At times, the requirement is underestimated, the time frame is not fixed in sync with the project and the entire project is not compatible with the engineers working on the project. This excuse has a broader dimension as any one part of the project estimation could become a reason for extending the time for project delivery.

3) Work Overload: Attrition is no big news in the IT industry. The software professionals deal with immense pressure in coding their programmes correctly. In such a case, when one team member resigns, the existing team members are overloaded with the pending work of the ex-employee. And in such a case, the priorities of the project team members change and this becomes another excuse for team members. 

4) Infrastructural issues: Well if nothing works out, then this is the excuse which everyone resorts to. Blame it on the company's infrastructure. Indian IT infrastructure usually lacks with effective resources like availability of power and high bandwidth. So probably one could understand the frustration caused due to a technical snag. Each time there is an infrastructural slowdown, the efficiency of employees comes down.

5) Information does not get passed on, lack of understanding of processes:Communication of the project details seems to be another area for making an excuse. If the project is not delivered on time, the problem could be directed to the organizational processes. The discrepancy in understanding of a project requirement is one point which the techies pick on to make an excuse.

6) Health issues: This is the most common excuse which prevails in every sector. This is one area, where the employees can't be questioned further. It has been widely seen that many IT professionals take sick leaves on Mondays because they are reluctant to work on Mondays after a relaxed weekend.