VARIndia's SIITF that grew two years this year once again was a hit. Prof. V. Rajaraman, Supercomputer Education & research Center, IIS, Bangalore was the Chief Guest and Dr. D. S. Ravindran, CEO, e-governance, Dept of IT, Govt. of Karnataka and K Manohar Raja, GM- Railtel corporation of India, Ministry of Railways were the Guest of Honors. The event kick started with the auspicious lamp lighting ceremony by Prof. V. Rajaraman, along with other esteemed guests that included Dr. D. S. Ravindran, K Manohar Raja, Ganesh Arumugam, Director-Partners, VMware Software India (P) Ltd., Anoop Nambiar, Country Manager- BPO, IBM India (P) Ltd., Rajiv Rao, Director- SMB Business, Lenovo India (P) Ltd., Anand Swaminathan, CEO, Zicom Electronics Security, LN Rao, Country Manager - Cloud Division, HP India, Sivakumar SK, Regional manager (w)- Motorola wireless Network Solutions, Sriram S, CEO, iValue Info Solutions, Bhavin Bhatt, Country Manager, M-tech India, Shiv Sharma, director- Strategy & Alliance, GoIP Global Services (P) Ltd., Deepak Sahu, Publisher, VARINDIA and Ashok Mohapatra, Regional Manager- south, VARINDIA.
The events' morning session emphasised on vendor-customer networking. There were four presentations one each from Lenovo, vmware, Motorola and eScan. Rajiv Rao shared that Lenovo's current and forthcoming launches are cloud ready. Ganesan Arumugam while defining cloud shared how VMware is present across the three delivery models. Nabiraj S Prasad, Manager- TA, Motorola wireless Network Solutions talked about the USPs of 802.11n technology. Last but not the least Amancio Britto, Sr. Technical Manager, Micro World Software Services (P) Ltd. brought to light about the security concerns in general and the means eScan is helping customers combat all the available threats & attacks.
Prof. V. Rajaraman while addressing the gathering shared, "Cloud computing is quite fashionable today. But one should not forget that reaching a destination involves a journey, same ways technology is all about evolution." He also added that when computing speed is doubling every 18months, storage saize doubling every 12months and Communication bandwith doubling every nine months, future of Cloud is bright but at the same time he highlighted challenges.
Picking a sentence from Professors speech, Dr DS Ravindran elaborated on "Computer is not an end but a means". He also gave the govt. of Karnataka's perspective on Cloud and the various strategies recently undertaken.
Sivakumar SK from Motorola in the evening session elaborated on morning's Nabiraj's presentation by detailing some more products for their wireless portfolio and role of channel. Also, Amancio Britto and Ganesh added the role of partner in their presentations in the evening session as the evening session was attended more by the channel partners.
The most awaited session of the event panel discussion was moderated by LN Rao of HP. The panelist included Dr. D. S. Ravindran, K Manohar Raja, Ganesh Arumugum, Rajiv Rao, Bhavin Bhatt, Anand Swaminathan, Dharain, IBM India, all agreed that margins have been a concern for the partners. But its the right time when partners should emphasise on the ownership of their customers and should look for long term association with vendors. Cloud would be the technology which would act as the business enabler.
"Don't be afraid of Cloud like any past technology, partners can and have a major role to play provided they once again believe in the Spirit of Transformation. Cloud adds that real 'value' to their names VARs," concludes LN Rao.
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