As a non-IT professional I was quite interested and curious to know about the trends in IT, which made me attend the Industry Interaction day organised by GR Govindarajulu School of Applied Computer Technology, which was held in the PSGRKC campus where i work. The topic that motivated me to be present was ‘Trends in Mobile Technologies’, however I was able to attend all the technical sessions except that one! Nevertheless, I found the day too benefitting for a non IT professional like me to get in touch with the terms that rule the IT world presently, one of the major and promising sectors of Indian industry. I was able to grab a few points out of the technical session and a panel discussion which I’ve listed below:
- · Cloud computing was one major session held during the morning hours of the day, which was delivered by Dr. Narasimha Murthy K. Bhatta of TCS
- · Cloud computing is to create 14 million jobs all around the world by 2015 of which 2 million jobs will be available in India
- · Even more interesting figure is that 30 % of the future IT business will be taken by cloud computing and smart computing
- · A concise definition given for cloud computing was that it is a convenient ordered network access to a shared pool of configuration of computing resources (eg., networks, storage, application, services) that can be rapidly provided and released with minimal management effort or service provider.
Well, all I understood was that it is a service that provides a mega space/ server/ resources/ software/ applications etc., either by a private party or government where in registered individuals can store their information and progress for the reference of the other members of the team or organisation, online!
- · It is of great use to small and medium scale businesses
- · The larger enterprises can have an in-house service or can save a lot on capital cost
- · Organisations like amazon.com and many other have their own cloud computing systems.
- · Cloud computing offers its services in three ways: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS wchih are respectively Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service
- · The service provider can be either be a private cloud or community cloud or public cloud or hybrid cloud.
- · Security systems to safeguard the cloud was also discussed
The panel discussion which was held in the afternoon session was surprisingly not a heavy session as one usually would be, as a post lunch session. The eminent panelists were one of the reasons for the same. Mr.Ashok Bakthavathsalam of KGISL, Dr. Narasimha Bhatta and Mr. Mahesh Kolar, Tata Conslutancy Services, Bangalore, Mr. Kumar Krishnasami of Unmetric, Mr.Shekar Consultant from Chennai and Ms. Maya Sreekumar of Cognizant Technology Solutions, Coimbatore comprised the distinguished panel. Prof. S. Balasubramanian, Director, GRGSACT was the moderator who made the sessions even more interesting.
Mr. Ashok Bakthavathsalam quoted the hockey stick effect growth of the IT sector which is phenomenal and still growing. He mentioned the Dejavu that happens after 2000 days; before this time frame was a similar situation that gave an upsurge in the Silicon Valley booming the IT sector then. He also mentioned ‘Acqui-hires’ which is the new talent acquisition trend that promises a great future for the youngsters who want to enter the IT field, if they have acquired the right skills. His conclusion with quote from Buddha, was quite impressive and very much invoking the need for today’s young mind that read: Two biggest mistakes one would do: Not going all the way and Not starting. How true are these statements! I could see how important and meaningful, ‘perseverance’ and ‘exploration to a new arena’ is, especially when things do not move in the desired direction.
Ms. Maya Sreekumar stressed upon customer centricity and how significant customers are for the business. She also emphasised the importance of decreasing the cost and increasing the value for customers which is very essential for success and growth.
Mr. Shekar from Chennai gave an entirely different perspective of the theme of the day. He encouraged the audience to view today from the future, from ten years hence, thereby pushing them to plan what they have to do today in order to achieve that tomorrow (ten years hence). He induced the audience to think as ‘youthfully intelligent citizens’, where he brings in the concept of being young in thoughts, intelligent in providing solutions and educating others and being responsible and accountable for one’s actions and thereby owning the citizen. He pointed an interesting fact that after ten years, one will grow old, one’s employees will grow old but the technology will grow younger day by day. Hence is the need for being youthfully fresh; youthfully intelligent and accountable citizens. He also insisted the importance of profit and cash and concluded with a quote that read: “Turnover is Vanity, Profit is Sanity and Cash is Reality”
Dr. Bhatta noted the phenomenal changes in the IT sector in terms of Intellectual property; cloud computing; platform BPOs; non linear pricing models, delivery accelerators; brands; mergers and acquisitions. He also noted that the changes were reflecting Internationalisation; Inclusive growth and Innovation.
Mr. Mahesh Kolar emphasised the need for better communication skills from today’s freshers to enter a successful career.
The full day was refreshing as I was able to reside in an entirely different scenario and discipline of knowledge. Apart from the technical inputs I grabbed at my level I also became aware of this insight that ‘switching over to different streams of thought process is energising as well as enriching one’s intellect’ and one needs to adapt this technique quite often as necessitated by one’s threshold level of being fresh in acquiring knowledge in a certain domain. Thanks to my Director, Prof. Bala who was the brain behind the event that had given me a fresh air once again at GRGSMS.
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