Category Archives: Offshore Outsourcing

Internet of Things: When will it be a business reality?

Padmasree Warrior, the CTO of Cisco, tweeted this question pointing to this article on the Business Opportunity for the Internet of Things. Took the liberty to post this here. I thought this question is a good followup to couple of posts I have made on IoT related technologies here (Pervasive Computing) and here (Near Field [...]

Multicore chips: Need for software re-engineering?

I was briefly at the Multicore Expo last week and there was some talk about programming effectively for multicore chipsets. However most of the vendors exhibiting seemed to shrug it off as a non-issue. Their explanation being that their OS or platform would handle the scheduling processes and utilization of cores from existing software as-is [...]

Maximizing Captial Efficiency: Is global R&D one of the solutions?

I attended the SDForum Quarterly Venture Breakfast with PWC yesterday and there was a lot of talk about capital efficiency from the VC panel. Capital efficiency is nothing new, but under the current economic scenario all the VCs seem to be chanting the same mantra all of a sudden. There was a recent popular blog [...]