Cloud Computing
Cloud is a Transformation journey that cuts across Business & IT for all enterprises. Unlike other transformational themes, the uniqueness about Cloud is its ability offer transformational benefits in lieu of the (seemingly unavoidable) inefficiencies that exist in the system today – be it Business or IT, in tangible terms. This change is proving to be more sustainable, long-term and evolving – be it adoption or ROI.
So what really motivates business to embrace cloud in concrete terms?
- Capital Cost Optimization and Controlled Operating expenses.
- Increased direct revenue generation and/or profitability at same or lesser cost
- IT Platform Efficiency leading to “Optimised Cost of IT”
- Efficient and Agile Business Change Management
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Software Engineering Lifecycle Efficiency
The reasons are more than compelling for any CXO to put their bets on the Cloud journey. The key differentiator about Cloud is that it has a story for every Business stakeholder – be it the CEO or the CIO / CFO et al.
Happiest Minds believes that “Cloud” is one of the disruptive themes that will influence Business and IT in the next 5 years (at least) which will change the way everything operates. Depending on the specific Industry and immediate business needs, we foresee that there will be different categories of Cloud Consumers – Innovators, Early Adopters, Safe Players and Followers.
Happiest Minds Cloud Foundation offers a HAPPYTM (Heterogeneous, Assured & automated, Performant & Proven, Next-Generation BUSINESS-READY) Cloud Adoption Program. The Foundation is integrated, adaptive and cost-effective – “Enabling a seamless, automated & economic adoption of Cloud-powered Business” for all of our Partners. A glimpse of our HAPPY Foundation is as below:
Based on individual Maturity Level(s),our HAPPYTM foundation guides our Partners, all across the Industries, in their journey to Cloud, covering the end-to-end Life-Cycle stages of Coaching and Advisory, Realization, Sustenance and Monetization.
To bring in additional focus, subject matter enrichment and context to our Cloud Foundation, we have diversified our Cloud Offerings to specific Business Units which drive the following areas of the Cloud Spectrum all across the Industries:
However, the HAPPYTMCloud Foundation continues to provide an integrated experience for our Partners with the flexibility to choose between an end-to-end proposition and / or a very specific interest area.
Our positioning of “Enabling seamless, automated & economic adoption of Cloud-powered Business” is pivoted on the pre-fabricated, domain enriched Frameworks, Productized Solutions, IPs and Tools that we offer during the Journey which makes it far more easy and reliable for our partners.
White Papers
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Top 10 Questions while embracing Cloud: CIO Edition
During my many interactions with the CXOs, Technology Partners & Evangelists, Senior Business Sponsors and Industry-Forum Leads - I have come across various concerns, inhibitions and perceptions about Cloud Adoption. I have also come across.
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Six steps to cloud adoption
As cloud computing moves to the mainstream, we see a trend, especially among large organizations, towards private cloud implementations. The trend is logical – for the simple reason that implementing them makes good business sense for large enterprises with significant investments in their own data centers, applications and infrastructure.
Articles
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Continuous Integration (TFS vs Open Source) Part-1
There are lot of tools and software’s available in market for Continuous Integration. TFS is widely used tool for doing CI in Microsoft platform. In this blog I have tried to explore what open source tools we can use in place of TFS and by doing so what are the pros and cons of it. I will cover this topic in multiple parts, in this part -1 I am covering "Source Control Management" tools.
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Connecting the dots: IT services in cloud
Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized. Cloud technology and service providers such as EMC, IBM, VMware and Microsoft continue to maintain technology focus and so come up with training and certification programs to build the skills base necessary to successfully deploy their specific technology platforms and offerings.
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Top 5 FAQs that CIO’s ask while embracing the Cloud
The article focuses on the most pertinent questions/clarifications that different stakeholders have/seek about cloud adoption. There are no 'right' or 'wrong' answers here but rather it is about having the right perspective to the query and getting the data points interpreted correctly.