The Smart Techie was renamed Siliconindia India Edition starting Feb 2012 to continue the nearly two decade track record of excellence of our US edition.
February - 2011 - issue > CEO Spotlight
Open Source, Cloud and Virtualization Imperative for Organizational Efficiency
Pramod Sharma
We’ve heard a lot of buzz around cloud in the last few years, but I think this year we will begin to see more adoption as organizations start moving more mission-critical applications to the cloud. Additionally, more and more organizations will virtualize in order to reduce their IT footprint, achieve real, tangible cost savings and operational improvement.
I believe the open source movement will continue, especially since Federal CIO Vivek Kundra and leading government agencies have embraced open source.
Finally, dense computing will find its way into more enterprises as the needs to carry processing power into the field, reduce the total cost per processing unit, CapEx and O&M and adopt green solutions become more important.
I believe we will see a significant increase in M&A activity in the government services sector as the economy continues to pick up and mid-tier companies struggle to compete with the large systems integrators. Additionally, we will see an increase in the number federal contracts awarded to small businesses since a lot of federal agencies have not been meeting their small business quotas.
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