Thursday 2 August 2012

Cloud computing

The origin of the term cloud computing is obscure, but it appears to derive from the practice of using drawings of stylized clouds to denote networks in diagrams of computing and communications systems. The word cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the standardized use of a cloud-like shape to denote a network on telephony schematics and later to depict the Internet in computer network diagrams as an abstraction of the underlying infrastructure it represents. In the 1990s, telecommunications companies who previously offered primarily dedicated point-to-point data circuits, began offering virtual private network (VPN) services with comparable quality of service but at a much lower cost. By switching traffic to balance utilization as they saw fit, they were able to utilize their overall network bandwidth more effectively. The cloud symbol was used to denote the demarcation point between that which was the responsibility of the provider and that which was the responsibility of the users. Cloud computing extends this boundary to cover servers as well as the network infrastructure.



The underlying concept of cloud computing dates back to the 1950s; when large-scale mainframe became available in academia and corporations, accessible via thin clients / terminal computers. Because it was costly to buy a mainframe, it became important to find ways to get the greatest return on the investment in them, allowing multiple users to share both the physical access to the computer from multiple terminals as well as to share the CPU time, eliminating periods of inactivity, which became known in the industry as time-sharing..
As computers became more prevalent, scientists and technologists explored ways to make large-scale computing power available to more users through time sharing, experimenting with algorithms to provide the optimal use of the infrastructure, platform and applications with prioritized access to the CPU and efficiency for the end users..

John McCarthy opined in the 1960s that "computation may someday be organized as a public utility." Almost all the modern-day characteristics of cloud computing (elastic provision, provided as a utility, online, illusion of infinite supply), the comparison to the electricity industry and the use of public, private, government, and community forms, were thoroughly explored in Douglas Parkhill's 1966 book, The Challenge of the Computer Utility. Other scholars have shown that cloud computing's roots go all the way back to the 1950s when scientist Herb Grosch (the author of Grosch's law) postulated that the entire world would operate on dumb terminals powered by about 15 large data centers. Due to the expense of these powerful computers, many corporations and other entities could avail themselves of computing capability through time sharing and several organizations, such as GE's GEISCO, IBM subsidiary The Service Bureau Corporation, Tymshare (founded in 1966), National CSS (founded in 1967 and bought by Dun & Bradstreet in 1979), Dial Data (bought by Tymshare in 1968), and Bolt, Beranek and Newman marketed time sharing as a commercial venture.

The ubiquitous availability of high capacity networks, low cost computers and storage devices as well as the widespread adoption of hardware virtualization, service-oriented architecture, autonomic, and utility computing have led to a tremendous growth in cloud computing.
After the dot-com bubble, Amazon played a key role in the development of cloud computing by modernizing their data centers, which, like most computer networks, were using as little as 10% of their capacity at any one time, just to leave room for occasional spikes. Having found that the new cloud architecture resulted in significant internal efficiency improvements whereby small, fast-moving "two-pizza teams" could add new features faster and more easily, Amazon initiated a new product development effort to provide cloud computing to external customers, and launched Amazon Web Service (AWS) on a utility computing basis in 2006.






In early 2008, Eucalyptus became the first open-source, AWS API-compatible platform for deploying private clouds. In early 2008, OpenNebula, enhanced in the RESERVOIR European Commission-funded project, became the first open-source software for deploying private and hybrid clouds, and for the federation of clouds. In the same year, efforts were focused on providing quality of service guarantees (as required by real-time interactive applications) to cloud-based infrastructures, in the framework of the IRMOS European Commission-funded project, resulting to a real-time cloud environment. By mid-2008, Gartner saw an opportunity for cloud computing "to shape the relationship among consumers of IT services, those who use IT services and those who sell them" and observed that "organisations are switching from company-owned hardware and software assets to per-use service-based models" so that the "projected shift to computing... will result in dramatic growth in IT products in some areas and significant reductions in other areas.



On March 1, 2011, IBM announced the Smarter Computing framework to support Smarter Planet. Among the various components of the Smarter Computing foundation, cloud computing is a critical piece.
In 2012, Dr. Biju John and Dr. Souheil Khaddaj incorporated the semantic term into the cloud "Cloud computing is a universal collection of data which extends over the internet in the form of resources (such as information hardware, various platforms, services etc.) and forms individual units within the virtualization environment. Held together by infrastructure providers, service providers and the consumer, then it is semantically accessed by various users." (CLUSE 2012), Bangalore, April 2012

Wednesday 25 July 2012

CEBS INC - IBM Business Partner

Application Development and Maintenance

In today's competitive global marketplace, companies are increasingly evaluating how to leverage and optimize their existing technology investment to reduce costs and drive future business growth.CEBS provides Application Development and Maintenance Services that are supported by our Dedicated Development and Maintenance Center .Our dedicated Offshore Development Center (ODC) is designed to specifically carry out development activities with our cross technology expertise and hands on experience ensuring our solutions enhance your business performance. we follow strict quality assurance methodologies. In addition our development process follows a well defined System Development Lifecycle and a stringent Quality Management System so each stage of the application development process is monitored, reviewed, controlled. With time tested methodologies for providing quality software maintenance and support services we further have a Dedicated Maintenance Center (DMC) that employs Industry Experts who provide software maintenance and support 24x7 whenever you may need it. Our procedures are designed to accommodate a smooth process flow for application change request, performance fine-tuning, up-gradation, bug fixing and other such requirements.So whether you are looking for expertise in diverse platforms, design and development, tools and techniques; our state-of-the-art facilities and experts are always there to develop or manage your applications.
ABOUT CEBS INC
CEBS is a growing global IT company dedicated to develop ebusiness tools, applications, and custom solutions using proven tools & technologies from vendors like IBM, Microsoft, HP, Oracle, Sun and many more.CEBS started in 2003 after experienced Software Architects, Business Analysts and IT Consultants joined hands to form a company with a difference. Since then the organization has endured many challenging projects & achieved tremendous success. Our goal is always to deliver high quality, strategic & innovative business solutions. We focus on providing the best solution versus forcing a particular technology or brand.CEBS started with one office in USA. But with enterprising expansion, we reached out to various continents, with now offices in Australia, Asia and US.We have worked on various technologies and different platforms. We have provided end to end solutions in most cases. Our goal is to walk the client through the whole process in order to make it very convenient for him. We believe in using the best and the most complex products but with very simplified solutions.
Our prospective clients ask us, what makes us different.
We tell them the only thing that makes us different is our “POSITIVE ATTITUDE”.
OUR SERVICES
We have extensive experience in the area of Software Development, Consulting, and Training. Our professionals have taken training and certifications from industry leaders on various technologies. Strong domain expertise, combined with more than a decade of software development experience of our team members, has enabled CEBS to become a strategic development partner for our clients. Our niche lies in our offerings - cost effective service - optimum productivity and - value for time.
» Application Development and Maintenance
» Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (BI&DW)
» Consulting and Enterprise Solutions
» Enterprise Storage Solutions
» Embedded Services
» High-Tech Solutions
» E-Business (eCommerce, mobile Commerce) Solutions
» ERP, Infrastructure Management Services
» Engineering Solutions
» Managed IT Services
» Quality Consulting
» Six Sigma Consulting

OUR SOLUTIONS 
Our solutions are mainly focused in the area of E-Business, High Tech Consulting, Enterprise Solutions, Collaboration, Mobile Computing, Content Management, Web Development, Distribution Management and Disaster Recovery.
eBusiness (Commerce, Portal, Web)
» IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite
» IBM WebSphere Portal Server
» IBM WebSphere Payment Manager
» IBM WebSphere Application Server
Content Management
» IBM Enterprise Content Management
  » Microsoft Content Management Server
  » Drupal
   » Alfresco
   » Joomla
Mobile Computing
   » IBM WebSphere Everyplace Access
   » IBM WebSphere MQ Everyplace
   » IBM DB2 Everyplace
   » IBM WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal
   » IBM WebSphere Transcoding Publisher
   » IBM WebSphere Voice Server
   » IBM ViaVoice
   » IBM DirectTalk
   » IBM WebSphere Voice Response
Collaboration
   » Lotus Suite of Products
   » Lotus Notes, Domino, Sametime Server
   » Lotus Web Content Management
   » Lotus Enterprise Integrator
   » Lotus Domino Everyplace
Web Development
  » Java, XML, JavaScript, PHP, HTML
  » Flash, Shockwave, Streaming
  » Audio/Video, Graphics Designing
  » Video Editing
Enterprise Resource Planning
   » JD Edwards
   » PeopleSoft
GLOBLE DELIVERY MODEL
Our GDM offers complete product lifecycle solutions as an extension to the client’s engineering team. CEBS develops custom software solutions for R&D, operations, sales, marketing and finance that increase collaboration and efficiency and provide improved ROI. Our team works round the clock using our Global Delivery Model to create customized results. Our experienced consultants ensure that all business issues of the client are addressed in the desired time frame. We focus on filling in all technology gaps.
• World Class Professionals- Our teams are led by senior managers, or Client Partner, who coordinates operational requirements and service delivery with a dedicated team
• Best Infrastructure- We provide cost savings, operational maturity and process efficiency with our fully automated and flexible systems in pace that enable us to manage your hardware, software and networks remotely from any combination of our local or global delivery centers.
• Dedicated and Motivated Resources- At CEBS, we work according to your time frames and deadlines. With clients on a broad global platform, our staff is flexible and dedicated to providing the best services possible. We understand that you instill and invest your trust in us and we assure you that we will not let you down.
• Attention to Detail- Our highly skilled professionals use their rich experience and expertise to make sure that the project is delivered within the time limits and the output is compatible with the high standards and quality of our clients.
• Innovative Solutions: The market variables are constantly changing, and investor preferences are always changing. But you can simplify your IT foundation and become more adaptive to customer needs. We offer the tools and technologies to raise operational efficiency and lower costs, while developing new capabilities.
We promote exceptionally strong client partnerships, we ensure better communication with the global delivery model and more tightly managed projects that arrive on time, on budget and in alignment with client requirements. Our experienced consultants ensure that all business issues of the client are addressed in the desired time frame. We focus on filling in all technology gaps.
We offer the tools and technologies to raise operational efficiency and lower costs, while developing new capabilities. We promote exceptionally strong client partnerships, we ensure better communication with the global delivery model and more tightly managed projects that arrive on time, on budget and in alignment with client requirements.

WHY CEBS INC
Our very intelligent and worldly clients always shop around before they choose their provider/partner. Unlike many organizations we stand strong on our principles and promises. We have been often complimented for being a “Value Adding “consulting firm and not another outsourcing vendor
Companies invest a lot of their capital in buying sophisticated products but only a matter expert can take you through the features and details of those products. Just by investing on technology you do not maximize on the capabilities of that technology. We provide consulting services where both out of the box and customized solutions can be provided with minimal effort and cost. We have provided valuable consulting services to the Retail - B2C, Manufacturing/Industrial – B2B and B2C and Government - Portals.
We not only work with your IT team but also your business team and key stakeholders. All technology products provide the same results to all users but the success lies in customizing the product results to suit your business needs.
This is where CEBS adds real value to your business. By understanding your business requirements, we magnify the every small detail and incorporate them in the entire process. In simple words, our consultants create an environment that will balance the IT results to suit your business needs.

Monday 16 July 2012

Six Sigma solutions @ CEBS

Six Sigma solutions of CEBS are metrics employed by the company to qualitatively evaluate their performance so that it can be quantifiable effectively for the benefit of all our clients. Our intentions for resorting to these are to provide an efficient mechanism that is able to focus on the improvement of organizational performance; by improving the business processes. We resort to these strategies in order to improvise on delivery time, have a shorter and efficient PDLC, and also to improve the product quality and in process quality of the deliverables. In other words; this methodology is able to provide for rigorous disciplines that use analytical data to quantify and improvise on the performance of the company. 

We intend to do this by identifying the ‘loopholes’ or ‘defects’ in the system that help in improving the quality and performance of our company’s deliverables. At CEBS we achieve this by allocating a select few that would be able to adopt, monitor and also improvise the methodology of Six Sigma. 

Our company generally follows a five point strategy for Six Sigma, which is: Define Quantify, Analyze, Improvise and Monitor. The underlying feature for this is to improvise on the productivity and also to prevent any anomalies in the system. The base of our approach is highly customer centric. Therefore we aim at evaluating how well a process would be performed. We aim at higher Sigma capability as it suggests a work culture that is free from all the anomalies. 

We base our evaluations on the data metric that is based on reducing the variations in the process and also aiming at having a control to increase the product quality. The underlying feature is also to reduce the cost of operations. Putting it in a basic form; Six Sigma solutions of CEBS are driven toward the delivery of customer needs, and the medium that we use is highly data driven. We believe in having good inputs in the process that result in eliminating the defects of the system. We also intend to eliminate any variations in the process and also increasing the capabilities of the process. Therefore the end results produced by us provide deliverables that are ‘On time, Precise, Cost Effective and are also based on the requirements of our clients’. CEBS trains its employees to have an increased understanding and awareness of the Six Sigma tools so that there is an amplified efficiency in the organization right from the grass root.

Our Methodology is elucidated in the following manner:
Define: In this phase the process of the company that needs improvisation is identified. We evaluate our client requirements and then from those perspectives evaluate their quality needs. These then put together with the project scope, and team roles, help us in determining the milestones that our company has to achieve in the subsequent years, and based on these we also create a process that is required to map the evaluation of the process that we are using. 

Quantify: Based on the defined strategies we measures the deviations from the process and try to quantify these. In that regard; this is a step forward in trying to improvise the defects. 

Analyze: In this process of CEBS we analyze the reasons behind the anomalies in the process. We identify the variables that can cause the defects and thereby having pointed towards these; we try to analyze the reasons that are causing deviations in the process. 

Improvisation: After having identified the anomalies in the system and measuring how they impact the efficiency of workflow, this stage intends to improvise the anomalies and thereby help produce a better and an efficient system for the company that is able to generate good results for our clients. 

Monitor: This stage evaluates if the above stated variations are able to comply and stay within the maximum acceptable ranges using simple checklist procedure and also statistical measurement devices. 
  • As a measure
  • As a method
  • As a managerial process

At CEBS we believe that the effectiveness of Six Sigma becomes more obvious when it is deployed simultaneously at all the three levels. As a measure we use it as a scale to measure the defects of the company. As a method we deploy it to improve the strategies of the company by helping us to be clear about our client requirements and also to align primary business methods to target those requirements. As a managerial tool; it entails a strategy by which the managers would be better able to identify and rectify the errors and leverage the company to path of success based on Six Sigma ideology. 

CEBS’s Six Sigma Solutions have therefore pushed forward the progressive approach of the company. This helps us in providing results that are simply flawless. In that respect they help us in retaining our client base and also adding on to it. It has also created a culture of effectiveness that has helped us to grow as a company as we have the confidence of hundreds of our clients invested in our company. Therefore the structured methodology of CEBS’ Six Sigma has helped us to serve our client’s better.

Sunday 15 July 2012

Application Development & Maintenance @ CEBS





CEBS has a very well defined and streamlined Application Development process which comprises of a stage from complete analysis of the business development project to offering ongoing maintenance support given to our clients. This streamlined process involves careful delegation of work to various teams. This enables us with ‘On Time’ delivery that is in keeping with clients’ expectations as well!...At CEBSthe Application Development Team can cater to the increasing needs of the integrated operations and Applications Management along with Real time transactions; and monitoring everything very effectively. 

CEBS
 is considered as the trusted partner for outsourcing solution as well. We use embryonic architecture with its ever evolving strategies that change business paradigms with increasing need for integration and secured infrastructure that has robust application. We have a very well knowledgeable and dedicated team that caters well to the application development and management strategies. We do not have any tailor made solutions for our clients; rather all the solutions provided by us are highly customized to suit their specific requirements. We offer end to end operations that are scalable in accordance to your business needs.

With use of latest technology and with hands-on experience we ensure that our solutions are able to enhance your business operations. We believe in absolute Quality adherence therefore the Application Development process at CEBS is closely monitored, reviewed and audited for strict standards for adherence and compliance to the quality that we would like to maintain. Coupled with this our benchmarked solutions and expert delivery skills enable us to deliver the best to our clients.

In terms of application support and Maintenance, we have a separate team that allows for effective capturing and rectification of maintenance requests. We offer off shore and on site application maintenance support services that provide for immediate and long term support for client business operations. Our proactive approach to problem solving capacity has had heightened impact on the operations of organizations.  Thus you have the following benefits with CEBS Application Development and Maintenance procedures:
  • Effective cost saving mythologies
  • Flexibility of operation
  • Best maintenance solutions offered immediately
  • Ability to concentrate on business fully

Friday 13 July 2012

Outsourcing

CEBS Technology initially started in India but gradually established its offices in USA, India, and Australia and serves its services throughout world.

 Throughout year, CEBS served more than 400 clients and it is counting keeps on increasing and shows no sign to stop anywhere. CEBS never compromise with this quality, as we believe to serve our client at best quality in given cost.

Well lets discuss with term Outsourcing.

Outsourcing means, getting the job done by somebody else, other than the normal office employees. Companies get their data processed by other companies or freelancers who will perform as per agreement.

Main reason companies do outsource is to save their pockets. In this way, companies are able to provide services at cheaper price while still having a large margin for profit.

There are many stories throughout world who want to develop their own business and due to tight budget; they were not able to develop their dream. CEBS Technology helped them to develop their dreams into reality and in this way we convert these stories into success stories..

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