WWW - Wireless Will Win by Prof Sadagopan

At a recent conference in Bangalore, I realized why Prof. Sadagopan is called the Guru of Indian IT. While there were leaders from Industry who spoke within their specific contexts, Prof. Sadagopan was able to bring it all together into a sort of IT roadmap. Here are some of the things he said  ...

- Cloud: Just like there are interconnected national highways, state highways, city streets, toll roads and private roads there will be public clouds, private clouds, virtual private clouds, virtualized servers, private servers all co-existing - even in the same Enterprise. So there is no need to define a one-size-fits-all "cloud strategy". Do what makes most sense. There are always cost, security, availability, reliability considerations in these decisions. So the entire Enteprise IT is not going to be sitting on Amazon Web Services any time soon. At the same time, a lot of Enterprise IT that can go on to the public cloud will require rethinking the architecture of these applications.

-Enterprise Video: With increasing realization of the power of consumer video - video blogs/training videos on youtube being extremely popular, this may be the year of enterprise video. Enterprises may increasingly deploy video for knowledge management, corporate communication, product demonstrations etc. With increasing server processing power, virtualization and decreasing bandwidth costs this may take off in 2010.

-WWW - he coined a new acronym - WWW stands for Wireless Will Win. With 300 million mobile phone users in India and a huge number of mobile phone users world wide, you cannot build applications that support the mobile phone. You have to build applications for the mobile phone which also support the PC. This is a completely different way of thinking about applications. The mobile phone offers instant access and a level of onboard power that the PC can never match.

-One click installs from the Cloud - The other interesting point was that the era of complicated installation of applications is over. Consumers are used to the ease of an app installing on an iPhone. Consumers will demand one-click installations. So make the installation as simple as possible.

An enlightening session !!