The device bundle is a 15-inch LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse. Storage is based on Cloud servers. The device does not have any optical media and uses Airtel broadband to connect to the Internet.

The device is powered by Microsoft and Nivio Companion. Windows XP has been customized by Nivio and connected to a backend Linux server. The Airtel Net PC comes with an online storage of 10GB. One hundred percent of security of data has been assured. The packages being offered are Home at Rs. 699 per month, Professional at Rs. 899 per month and Business at Rs. 1,199 per month.

Airtel plans to attract One million customers. Another advantage of the device is its low power consumption. Yet the moot point remains if users are willing to accept this kind of a device as a regular PC for their daily tasks. The major disadvantage is the lack of optical media that makes playing of games difficult. Hardware upgrades may not be available and the PC may become outdated very soon.

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The market for software as a service (SaaS) is forecast to reach $9.6 billion in 2009, a 21.9 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.6 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The market will show consistent growth through 2013 when worldwide SaaS revenue will total $16 billion for the enterprise application markets.

Office suites and digital content creation (DCC) remain the fastest-growing markets for SaaS. Office suites are projected to total $512 million in 2009, up from $136 million in 2008, while DCC is forecast to total $126 million in 2009, up from $70 million in 2008. The content, communications and collaboration (CCC) market continues to show the widest disparity of SaaS revenue across market segments, generating $2.5 billion in 2009, up from $2.16 billion in 2008

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Group to focus on standards for cloud management, interoperability between private and public clouds

As virtualization technology continues to be more rapidly adopted, it is emerging as a common enabling foundation for delivering software solutions into IT environments along with the potential to lower IT costs and improve operational efficiencies. While deploying virtualization technologies it is also critical to have comprehensive management capabilities associated with the implementation. Along with the adoption of virtualization, more and more enterprise IT customers are looking at the cloud computing paradigm to better deliver services to their customers.

No specific standards currently exist for enabling interoperability between private clouds within enterprises and hosted or public cloud providers. DMTF’s Open Cloud Standards Incubator will focus on addressing these issues by developing cloud resource management protocols, packaging formats and security mechanisms to facilitate interoperability.

The work of the Open Cloud Standards Incubator will focus on ways to facilitate operations between private clouds within enterprises and other private, public, or hybrid clouds by improving the interoperability between platforms through open cloud resource management standards. The group also aims to develop specifications to enable cloud service portability and provide management consistency across cloud and enterprise platforms.

The current incubator leadership board consists of AMD, Cisco, Citrix, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, Savvis, Sun Microsystems, and VMware.

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