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Dear
Friends,
It is a pleasure and a privilege to share with
you the first issue of CommuniQA, our very own
newsletter. Produced with a collaborative effort,
we hope to keep our customers and our patrons
informed about our business activities and at
the same time share information relating to IT.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, so
we also have a Quiz and some Tech Humour. I hope
you enjoy reading our newsletter and we hope to
stay in touch with you regularly. Please do not
hesitate to write to us with your feedback
and suggestions that will help us to improve our
newsletter.
Sincerely,
C.E.O
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Computing - IS CLOUD COMPUTING the Right Solution
for your Organization ? Cost V/s Risk V/s
Tradition |
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 Cloud
computing seems like a great cost saving
alternative and to an extent that is very
true. Traditionally it has been always been
a tussle between technology upgrade versus
cost. And any savings derived by an organization
on its IT infrastructure sustenance, and
growth, whether it is due to Cloud Computing
or any other technology roll-out augurs
well for the organization and for the CIO/IT
Heads. Cloud computing definitely gives
me an option today to host everything on
the Cloud and it is definitely an alternative
to the way our organization has been hosting
applications on data centres. But how much
of my organization data needs to be on the
Cloud is something which needs lot of detailing,
risk analysis and to be perceived and understood
much before I take the plunge into Cloud
Computing world.
From a competition point of view I definitely
need to start analyzing and thinking about
my organization’s cloud computing
needs today as it definitely makes some
business sense to move some areas of operations
to the cloud safely and profitably. Today
as I work on my 5 year IT Long Range Plan
(LRP), one of the key areas that goes into
my LRP planning is to work on the risk assessment
on all areas of organization information
that are probable candidates to be moved
to the cloud. I need to be cognizant of
the risks involved, understand the risk,
business impact; cost involved and develop
a plan that can address possible cloud computing
risks. But definitely I will have areas
that could give me savings and reduced risks
in the long run moving towards cloud computing.
To conclude, I would say Cloud Computing
is here to stay and how much of leverage
an organization would want to take out of
Cloud Computing will be governed by Individual
organizational sensitiveness to the amount
of data and definition of data that they
perceive is safe to be hosted on a cloud
computing. This is definitely debatable
and I would like to see more thoughts from
other CIO/IT- Head on their take on this.
EM Subhash
Asia Pacific Regional IT Manager
Dresser-Rand India Pvt Limited
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Nitin Alsi was crowned the Best Swan for
the year 2010-2011 for his outstanding contribution
to Swan last year to help it cross the 50cr
mark. CommuniQA congratulates Nitin and
shares with readers a glimpse about the
man.
Nitin was born in 1972 in Akola, Maharasthra
to a family of educationists and was the
eldest of the 2 siblings. An avid cricketer
and an athletic champion, he imbibed the
passion of winning very early in life. He
did his graduation from Govt. College of
Engineering, Amravati in Electrical Engineering
and in 1993 stepped in Aamchi Mumbai to
carve his own future. Destiny brought him
to Swan where he was instantly offered a
job to sell Electronic Typewriters. He tasted
blood when he sold his first typewriter
and since then has come a long way to swing
deals for Blade Servers, Data Centres, and
Disaster Recovery Sites.
Competition and financial rewards stimulate
Nitin who believes in planning and anticipating
problems before they arrive. A straight
talker, Nitin has evolved himself to take
on newer challenges and is currently focusing
on building a team.
Nitin married Shilpa, a Chartered Accountant,
in 2001 and they have in Rishabh ( 6 years),
a very mischievous boy. Nitin stays at Kharghar
in his self-owned flat and in his leisure
time prefers to watch TV specially Amitabh
movies. Nitin has frugal food tastes so
next time you call him for dinner a simple
'Dal Chawal or Sabudana Khicdi' will suffice,
but if you want to go an extra mile, serve
him Chilly Chicken.
Alsi means 'seed' and here is one seed that
is going to be a mighty oak.. CommuniQA
wishes Nitin a very illustrious career and
a blissful family life.
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Swan won two years in a row, the Channel
World Premier 100 award. Click
here to read more. |
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Innovation
is about changing orbits, creating a space
where none existed, challenging beliefs
and market-truths. Click
here to view the presentation
made by our MD at the Swan Planning Conference
held recently. |
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Help
Desk: What's on your
monitor now, ma'am?
Female User:
A teddy bear my boyfriend bought for
me at the mall |
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User:
I can't get on the Internet.
Help Desk:
Are you sure you used the right password?
User: Yes,
I'm sure. I saw my colleague do it.
Help Desk:
Can you tell me what the password was?
User: *****
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WayBack
Machines
Here’s an interesting internet archive
site that has snapshots of almost all the
sites in the world since 1996. So if you
would like to see how your favourite website
has evolved over the years, go through the
archives using its timeline. Time to rekindle
up old memories.
http://web.archive.org/
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Foxit
Reader
Tired of Adobe PDF Reader constant nagging
to download updates and fixes. Try Foxit
Reader, a lightweight alternative to Adobe
Reader. There's almost no PDF file that
Foxit Reader doesn't handle perfectly. It
takes up far less disk space than Adobe
Reader, and still runs faster.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/
reader/reader4.php
DiskDigger
DiskDigger goes "beneath the file system"
to recover data on a sector-by-sector basis
from hard drives, thumb drives, etc. DiskDigger
is very easy to use. For a free utility
this is more than your time’s worth
(since you are not spending any money)
http://diskdigger.org/download
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Replify
( WAN Acceleration Solution)
Replify is a software-only solution loaded on
commodity hardware which dramatically speeds up
the performance of your applications, resulting
in lowered TCO. Replify provides improved application
delivery and massive bandwidth savings and it
can be deployed within hours as it does not require
to install any new hardware at your operations
centre.
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Users
experience greatly improved response times and
download speeds over a wide range of applications
- including email, CRM, ERP, eDRM, file-shares
and collaboration applications such as SharePoint.
Replify Application Acceleration Suite radically
improves the remote user experience through compression,
caching & de-duplication and protocol optimization.
Click
here to explore more about Replify
and how it can help your organization. |
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Swan
is a 20 year old, IT infrastructure and facilities
management company providing state-of-the-art
IT solutions to large and medium enterprises.
Visit our website
www.swansol.com
to know more about us. |
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