ZSL to participate in SIIA's OnDemand Europe Conference - The ISV Conf. for Cloud Computing - 18-20 Oct 2010 at Royal Garden Hotel, London
Monday, July 26, 2010
ZSL to participate in SIIA's OnDemand Europe Conference - The ISV Conf. for Cloud Computing - 18-20 Oct 2010 at Royal Garden Hotel, London
ZSL to participate in SIIA's OnDemand Europe Conference - The ISV Conf. for Cloud Computing - 18-20 Oct 2010 at Royal Garden Hotel, London
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
ZSL Launches Latest Version of PowerMigrator
ZSL Unveils Latest Version of 'PowerMigrator™' an Automation Utility for Migration of Legacy Code to .NET
Washington, DC and Edision, N.J., July 12: ZSL, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and leading ISV headquartered in Edison, NJ announces the launching of its latest version of PowerMigrator™, a Legacy Modernization and Automation tool.
The PowerMigrator™ solution includes a free "Code Analyzer" that runs against the legacy applications that are being considered for migration. The net result of the "Code Analyzer" is a generated report that provides all pertinent information necessary for determining the amount of effort needed to migrate to the new platform. Typically companies can expect the automatic conversion of 50-60% of the existing source code, providing savings around 65% of the cost normally associated with a re-write and migration.
"As technology drives business, we help our customers align their businesses to latest technologies by modernizing their applications in cost effective manners through simple and easily automated processes while retaining the value of years worth of experience building the business logic in the applications," says Ramesh Babu, vice president of ZSL's Replacement Technology Practice. "Our replacement technology is structured & process oriented; it also provides opportunity for our clients to have new IT capabilities and increase their return on investment in a shorter timeframe," adds Mr. Babu.
About ZSL's Replacement Technology Practice
ZSL (Zylog Systems Ltd), a Systems Integrator and Solution provider, has a formidable practice around its replacement technology capabilities inclusive of a ZSL utility, PowerMigrator™, which has helped numerous companies automate up to 70% of the effort needed to convert legacy code to .NET while still retaining the core business logic of the old application. The PowerMigrator™ solution is a combination of a proprietary utility written by ZSL with process & methodology. The Replacement Technology Practice at ZSL has been in place for greater than a decade and the company continues to enhance and invest in its PowerMigrator™ tool set.
To read at Hindu, visit the URL: http://www.zslinc.com/Zylog-unveils-PowerMigrator-version-hindu.html
To view various press coverages on ZSL Launching Latest Version of PowerMigrator, please visit the URL: http://www.zslinc.com/Press-Coverage-About-ZSL-Unveils-PowerMigrator-new-version.htm
Washington, DC and Edision, N.J., July 12: ZSL, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and leading ISV headquartered in Edison, NJ announces the launching of its latest version of PowerMigrator™, a Legacy Modernization and Automation tool.
The PowerMigrator™ solution includes a free "Code Analyzer" that runs against the legacy applications that are being considered for migration. The net result of the "Code Analyzer" is a generated report that provides all pertinent information necessary for determining the amount of effort needed to migrate to the new platform. Typically companies can expect the automatic conversion of 50-60% of the existing source code, providing savings around 65% of the cost normally associated with a re-write and migration.
"As technology drives business, we help our customers align their businesses to latest technologies by modernizing their applications in cost effective manners through simple and easily automated processes while retaining the value of years worth of experience building the business logic in the applications," says Ramesh Babu, vice president of ZSL's Replacement Technology Practice. "Our replacement technology is structured & process oriented; it also provides opportunity for our clients to have new IT capabilities and increase their return on investment in a shorter timeframe," adds Mr. Babu.
About ZSL's Replacement Technology Practice
ZSL (Zylog Systems Ltd), a Systems Integrator and Solution provider, has a formidable practice around its replacement technology capabilities inclusive of a ZSL utility, PowerMigrator™, which has helped numerous companies automate up to 70% of the effort needed to convert legacy code to .NET while still retaining the core business logic of the old application. The PowerMigrator™ solution is a combination of a proprietary utility written by ZSL with process & methodology. The Replacement Technology Practice at ZSL has been in place for greater than a decade and the company continues to enhance and invest in its PowerMigrator™ tool set.
To read at Hindu, visit the URL: http://www.zslinc.com/Zylog-unveils-PowerMigrator-version-hindu.html
To view various press coverages on ZSL Launching Latest Version of PowerMigrator, please visit the URL: http://www.zslinc.com/Press-Coverage-About-ZSL-Unveils-PowerMigrator-new-version.htm
Thursday, July 8, 2010
ZSL in Channel Pro Magazine's Cover Story : Cloud Programs for Partners
Providers of cloud computing services are turning to the channel to help manage historic customer demand. Here’s a taste of what the top providers’ partner programs are offering. By Lauren Gibbons Paul
Even for an industry prone to hype, the hubbub surrounding cloud services is, well, sky-high. Few sectors have garnered more interest or headier predictions than cloud computing, a phrase that refers to running data centers on the Internet.
Virtualizing the IT environment in this way differs from traditional computing and outsourcing in that infrastructure is located “in the cloud” (on the Internet) as opposed to on premises. Cloud-based services carry all the benefits to the user of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model—no need to pay up front for infrastructure, no need to run or maintain the environment, pay-as-you-go pricing, easy scalability.
BY THE NUMBERS
According to IDC, public cloud services will outpace traditional IT spending over the next five years, representing $44.2 billion, or roughly 10 percent of all U.S. IT spending by 2013. IDC’s forecast does not include private cloud services, in which providers supply the virtual platform behind a firewall for greater security and better reliability. Amazon leads market share of the public cloud segment with its EC2 offering, and several players are vying to dominate private cloud services.
Gartner estimated worldwide cloud services revenue would surpass $56.3 billion last year, a 21.3 percent increase over 2008 revenue of $46.4 billion. By 2013, Gartner forecasts the market will reach $150.1 billion.
“We have been absolutely overrun with customer demand,” says Richard Reiner, Ph.D., CEO of Enomaly Inc. in Toronto. Targeting primarily the telecom industry, Enomaly has fielded more than 1,500 new customer opportunities since announcing its cloud-based Elastic Computing Platform last August.
TAPPING THE CLOUD ANNUITY
OpSource Inc. is a service provider that started offering enterprise application managed services eight years ago, which it has now moved to the cloud. When 70 percent of its new customers turned out to be resellers or VARs, management quickly realized that it needed a channel to capitalize on the opportunities.
“It became apparent to us pretty quickly that the consumption of infrastructure is still handled in many cases through the reseller or integrator, the trusted adviser,” says Jon Beck, senior vice president of sales and business development for OpSource Inc., in Santa Clara, Calif. “We developed a program designed for traditional resellers and white-labeling.”
WHAT TO LOOK FOR
Like the sound of these opportunities? Here’s what to look for when you begin to sort through the providers’ individual channel programs to see which one(s) might be best for you and your customers:
Flexibility and support are the top two things that attracted Shiv Kumar, executive vice president for ZSL Inc., when he began scouting out cloud partnership programs for his company last year. ZSL is an Edison, N.J., reseller of application migration services. Kumar liked the fact that OpSource offered two major options: the Cloud Service Referral Partner, which receives a straight percentage share of revenue, and the Cloud White Label Partner, in which resellers get a discount based on their volume of sales.
ZSL chose the latter. Kumar also appreciated that OpSource offers partners support. “They help a lot with lead and demand generation. We need to do cloud-readiness assessments for our customers, analyzing whether cloud makes sense. OpSource helps us make sure we are doing the right education,” says Kumar. ZSL representatives take prospects through an analysis of the application they are considering for migration, the underlying infrastructure, and usage patterns. For applications that are used 24/7, cloud may not be the best fit.
A collaborative approach was high on Justin Santa Barbara’s list when he went looking for a private cloud provider with which to partner. Founder of FathomDB, a San Francisco provider of cloud-based database services, Santa Barbara was already familiar with and using the Amazon public cloud. But he was disappointed with the level of interaction with that company. When Santa Barbara discovered the Rackspace Cloud, he was immediately won over.
Alignment with your organization and existing offerings. Independent analyst Rob Enderle cautions channel partners that plan to resell white-label cloud services to do all the due diligence they would before coming to market with any offering. “You need to do all the things you would do to rationalize a new product line,” says Enderle, principal at San Jose, Calif.-based Enderle Group. “You don’t want to have to retrain your sales force in order to sell this. If it requires a skill change to sell the product, it may not be efficient for you to do it. Read More
Read the full article online at: http://issuu.com/digitchannelconnect/docs/dcc_may25th/13?mode=a_p
Friday, June 18, 2010
ZSL presents at EuroCloud Congress 2010, Luxembourg on 'Fostering Cloud Innovation'
EuroCloud Europe invites you to the historic first EuroCloud Congress to be held in June 21 2010 - 7, rue Alcide de Gasperi, Luxembourg-Kirchberg.
This unique one day event will be fully dedicated to Cloud Computing in Europe and will be the place to meet with business leaders, political decision makers and academics engaged in cloud computing and software-as-a-service from across Europe.
Its mission is to examine specific opportunities and challenges surrounding the uptake of this immensely significant technology sector in Europe. Structured as a mix of open plenary and member-only workshop sessions, it aims to produce findings in specific areas for further investigation and action with relevant political and industry organisations.
This will be the first time that such a broad cross-section of the European industry in the vitally seminal sector of cloud computing has come together to focus on the role that political, industrial and economic policy can play in its successful growth and global impact. Attendees will benefit from valuable information exchange and networking with peers and subject matter experts from across Europe.
For event details: http://eurocloudcongress.org/pro/fiche/quest.jsp;jsessionid=389903CCF71E105888D530B0D035D2F7.gl1
Register the event at: http://eurocloudcongress.org/pro/fiche/quest.jsp;jsessionid=9BACCD507C8C4886BB79218FF0CFD762.gl1?pg=inscription&locale=2
Thursday, June 10, 2010
ZSL Presents at The Innovation Forum for Mobile Applications - Princeton University, June 16, 2010
Zylog Systems Ltd (ZSL) will be presenting about the Innovation in the Enterprise Mobile and Wireless Computing and Business Solutions Development at the Innovation Forum organized by the NJTC and Princeton University.
Mobilizing the Enterprise Applications such as ERP, CRM, ECM and SCM is one of top priorities in 2010 for the CIOs to improve the productivity and collaboration of their mobile work force.
Designing and Developing business applications for various mobile and wireless devices in an interesting yet challenging due to the fast pace innovation in the market by the technology vendors like Apple, Google and Microsoft. ZSL and New Jersey Technology Council(NJTC) want to foster the mobile computing innovation in the region so that developers, entrepreneurs, market leaders and investors can come together to learn and share their best practices periodically.
Date & Time:
June 16, 2010 3:30 PM – 8.00 PM
Location: Bowen Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
For more info and register to attend, please visit http://www.njtc.org/events/indevt.asp?dbid=%7b6BC3DB8E-AE59-DF11-8271-0013725A113C%7d&svdate=N
Mobilizing the Enterprise Applications such as ERP, CRM, ECM and SCM is one of top priorities in 2010 for the CIOs to improve the productivity and collaboration of their mobile work force.
Designing and Developing business applications for various mobile and wireless devices in an interesting yet challenging due to the fast pace innovation in the market by the technology vendors like Apple, Google and Microsoft. ZSL and New Jersey Technology Council(NJTC) want to foster the mobile computing innovation in the region so that developers, entrepreneurs, market leaders and investors can come together to learn and share their best practices periodically.
Date & Time:
June 16, 2010 3:30 PM – 8.00 PM
Location: Bowen Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
For more info and register to attend, please visit http://www.njtc.org/events/indevt.asp?dbid=%7b6BC3DB8E-AE59-DF11-8271-0013725A113C%7d&svdate=N
The Emergence of Eco-Friendly Computing Reduce Reuse Recycle
June, 2010: In U.S., the Data Centers accounted for 61 billion kWh or approx 1.5 percent of the Nation’s electricity consumption.
Staggering Statistics
In U.S., the Data Centers accounted for 61 billion kWh or approx 1.5 percent of the Nation’s electricity consumption. This usage is equivalent to the consumption of approximately 6 million U.S. households with the estimated figure of 12% increase annually according to the study report from the EPA.
The report puts a tremendous responsibility on the IT industry to adopt the Green IT initiatives more seriously and make the IT infrastructure as Eco-Friendly or Energy Efficient.
The EPA reports that energy usage in data centers doubled between 2000 and 2006 and is predicted to double again by 2011, hence the interest in energy efficiency.
Business leaders searching for a green strategy encounter few roadmaps and established rules and plenty of hidden twists and turns.
Emerging Standards
The Energy Star Version 5.0 standard provides guidance for choosing energy-efficient equipment, including Network devices, PC and Laptops, workstations, small-scale servers, and thin clients. To earn the Energy Star Version 5.0 label, the computing devices must meet the set power consumption criteria.
The IT infrastructure managers and Technology Manufacturers looking for greener alternatives will begin to benefit this year from a major initiative aimed at reducing the power consumed by Ethernet device- IEEE 802.3az, or the Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) standard, will implement low-power idle (LPI) modes for the full range of Ethernet BASE-T transceivers (100Mb, 1GbE and 10GbE) and the backplane physical layer standards (1GbE, 4-lane 1GbE and 10GbE).
The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) goes further in providing guidance to select environmentally friendly electronic device or equipment. In addition to requiring Energy Star rating, EPEAT registration evaluates computing device based on further criteria including materials selection and composition, life cycle considerations, end-of-life design and management, and packaging. EPEAT registers products at Bronze, Silver, and Gold levels according to how many of the optional criteria they meet on top of the 23 required criteria.
Virtualization and Cloud clean the Carbon
Virtualization, cloud computing, data center optimization and legacy modernization are the major focus areas for the IT organizations globally since the economic meltdown.
Cost savings and IT infrastructure consolidation are driving the Green IT agenda at the moment. The shrinking IT budget is also causing IT to reconsider how to run things more cost effectively as we continue to do more with less.
Virtualization clearly offers the promise of better resource utilization and lower operating expense. Energy-Star servers, outside air economizers and the like offer true green advantages.
A recent survey of IT Managers worldwide about their environmental strategies indicates about 54% admitted that cloud computing is now part of their overall environmental strategy. And over 21% of IT managers believe that cloud computing is a much greener alternative to traditional computing infrastructures, but it seems that the vast majority still remain to be convinced.
Green Client Computing Power Savior
The benefits of efficient Client Computing through desktop virtualization and print management creates significant impact on the energy. Longer PC lifecycles and more efficient power usage are other desktop virtualization benefits.
Hosted virtual desktops continue to garner significant market attention. Organizations considering their deployment can minimize cost and risks by following implementation best practices outlined by the industry experts. Desktop Virtualization technology will help in extending the lifetime of the Desktops by stretching the PC refresh cycle to reduce the load on already overtaxed landfills. Avoid sending hazardous materials to those landfills, old systems and supplies can be reused, repurposed, and/or recycled.
Green Client Computing is a combination of strategies and initiatives that reduce the environmental footprint of IT infrastructure. This arises from reductions in energy use and consumables, including hardware, power, and paper and extending the equipments lifetime among others. Because of these reductions, Green IT initiatives also produce cost savings in energy use, purchases, management and support, in addition to environmental benefits. Beyond cost savings and environmental benefits, some initiatives may address stakeholder and regulatory needs and demands.
Green Journey
Green computing is a continuous journey and everyone is responsible to play their role to make computing greener with the optimized energy usage to operate the electronic devices and mushrooming professional gadgets at work place. Such practices include the implementation of energy-efficient Servers and Accessories or Peripherals as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste (e-waste).
Green IT is taking on a bigger role for many reasons, including an increased awareness of environmental danger; concern about power bills; regulatory requirements; government procurement rules; and a sense that corporations should embrace social responsibility.
Since IT is still responsible for 2% of all carbon releases, IT managers should put best practices in place to
- Optimize the Power usage with the proper Power Management software
- Actively manage the desktop or laptop power settings
- Modernize the Data Center by Virtualizing the Servers, Desktops and Applications
- Mandate the purchase of energy efficient computing devices
- Establishes energy measurement and take the responsibility to monitor the energy usage
- Remember to Reduce ... Reuse ...Recycle...
The author is Executive Vice-President, Business Development, Zylog Systems
Read the article online at: http://www.thesmarttechie.com/magazine/fullstory.php/DNGF996515828
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