Sunday 3 March 2019

Making a Comeback

Hello...I'm hitting my blog section yet again with loads of fresh contents. Blogging has always been my passion with the blend of my travels, music and food (strumsoflife.blogspot.com).However, the tryst of my life and work has always been a great story to tell. I've moved from core technical roles to consulting and management since 5-6yrs now.

It's been long, real long. I always wanted to make a come back but somehow the work schedule, and the family circumstances held me back. However as the saying goes "follow your heart" and...."there I am finally blogging yet again.

Sunday 11 September 2011

A bit more insight into the "Citrix Systems"

Citrix Systems, Inc. NASDAQ is a multinational corporation founded in 1989, that provides server and desktop virtualization, networking, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing technologies including Xen open source products.

Software as a service is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.

Desktop virtualization (sometimes called client virtualization, as a concept, separates a personal computer desktop environment from a physical machine using the client–server model of computing. Some virtualization platforms allow the user to simultaneously run multiple virtual machines on local hardware, such as a laptop, using hypervisor technology. Virtual machine images are created and maintained on a central server, and changes to the desktop VMs are propagated to all user machines through the network, thus combining both the advantages of portability afforded by local hypervisor execution and of central image management.

Technically, Desktop Virtualization involves encapsulating and delivering either access to an entire information system environment or the environment itself to a remote client device. The client device may use an entirely different hardware architecture from that used by the projected desktop environment, and may also be based upon an entirely different operating system.

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility. Cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. Parallels to this concept can be drawn with the electricity grid, wherein end-users consume power without needing to understand the component devices or infrastructure required to provide the service.


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Wednesday 8 April 2009

Freelancers for e-Service: How far how good?

We've heard about freelancers. We've heard people talking about it. We've read about them time and again in newspapers, internet and other media. Who ARE they?? To analyse wheather freelancers would be cheaper alternative to big time IT companies, we need to know them. How they work, what process they follow, how flexible are they etc.

The so called process in every IT companies for letting any project in is very complex and thats a truth. I mean complex compared to that of freelancers. The client first gives out the tender to which a quotation is sent in response by the company followed by lot of formal business meetings with the so called Business Analysts where they talk various points like total number of head counts required, details about the existing system, technical, s/w requirement specifications etc. Then, the client has to send the purchase orders to the company. Finally... then the work has begun !!!

The same procedures has to take place if the client is approching freelancers. But then, the problem arises when we think of co-ordination.