Apple without Steve jobs this was the talk in the industry and lots of questions been raised "will the Apple be the same without Steve". Well the news is Steve jobs is back.Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave since January, is back at work. Jobs returned back after nearly Five and a half months leave to undergo a lever transplant in Memphis.

On 14 January 2009, Jobs had announced medical leave until the end of June, saying his health issues were "more complex" than originally thought. He handed day-to-day operations to chief operating officer Tim Cook and said he planned to remain involved in major strategic decisions.

Bloomberg quoted Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray & Co. in Minneapolis, as saying, "Jobs's return may reassure investors concerned that he was too sick to continue as CEO. It should give investors confidence in Apple's three-to- five-year road map. Having Steve Jobs back means they got the visionary back."

Shiv Nadar founded HCL in mid 1970's and with huge efforts he transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise.Shiv Nadar received PadmaBhushan in 2008 for his constant efforts in IT industry.Roshni Nadar, daughter of HCL founder Shiv Nadar, has been appointed as the executive director and CEO of HCL Corporation

Shiv Nadar earlier in chennai announced that HCL technologies and HCL Infosystems are run by highly corporatised boards. And also said Roshni Nadar's role will be confined to just HCL Corporation and will be responsible for holding the company which is HCL Corporation and non of the HCL Stake companies.She runs the treasury, all the new investment decisions will be taken by her." He added that he will focus on "developing a vision for the group".

Well talking about Roshni, she is an MBA student in social enterprise Management and strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Roshni has been involved with Rajiv Gandhi Foundation to promote the education of the girl child amongst dalits and muslims in backward areas of UP. She has also worked with Sky News and CNN in the production and programming functions.

Unisys corporation is another company unveiled its cloud computing strategy for moving their enterprise application workloads securely to cloud environments.

Security is in Unisys DNA, data center transformation and application modernization are our heritage, and outsourcing services tailored to the client’s specific business needs are our forté. Our cloud computing strategy draws on all those core capabilities to help clients break through the barriers to adoption and gain a full range of options for cloud services while safeguarding their operations and lowering IT costs.”

Unisys stealth security solution which is a data protection technology which was initially designed for the government and for commercial clients is underpinning this strategy.The Unisys Stealth technology cloaks data through multiple levels of authentication and encryption, bit-splitting data into multiple
packets so it moves invisibly across networks and protects data in the Unisys secure cloud.

“I believe that cloud computing will revolutionize the way enterprises obtain business and IT services and change the kind of payback they get from their IT investments,” said Rich Marcello, president, Unisys Systems and Technology

The new services include Secure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), for provisioning physical and virtual servers that both scale out and scale up; Secure Platform as a Service (PaaS), which provides a Java software stack—with .NET support planned—to make it easier for clients to move their applications to the cloud without making changes; My Secure Application as a Service (AaaS), for automatic provisioning of IT resources to support applications with multi-tier architectures; and Secure Software as a Service (SaaS), which provides access to hosted applications.

These services help clients assess what application workloads can be moved to the cloud, how that can be done, and the technology, financial and security implications of their choices.Unisys is planning "cloud-in-a-box" solution which includes Virtualisation capabilities, automation of ITIL best practices for service management.



Implementing cloud computing Unisys is providing best options for the clients to choose the services which meets their needs.The Unisys cloud computing strategy enables clients to choose the type of data center computing services that best meet their business objectives, from self-managed, automated IT infrastructures to Unisys-managed cloud services.

Cloud Computing the new era of technology has influced many companies accross the industry. There are few big players in this Cloud computing but there is a good news for the open source developers or the companies following open source. Ubuntu which had new version earlier this year , Canonical the founder of ubuntu has launched a new professional services to help and support users building 'private Clouds' behind the corporate firewall.

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), an open-source system that enables organisations to build their own clouds that match the interface of Amazon EC2. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (also known as "EC2") is a commercial web service that allows customers to rent computers on which to run their own computer applications.A customer can create, launch, and terminate server instances as needed, paying by the hour for active servers, hence the term "elastic".

Option for creating private clouds can optimise server use for an organization. Ubuntu is the first Linux(Debian) distribution to provide cloud services. Opensource adapting the cloud services shows the importance of the cloud concept though some industry experts speak about dis advantages of adapting cloud computing.

"Enterprises are realising that building 'private clouds' enables them to better manage variable workloads, while reducing the waste of idle servers. Building on open-source technology also avoids the issue of vendor lock-in," said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical. "Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud enables businesses to do this - and the addition of these services helps them to do it with confidence."

As per the info, Yearly pricing for entry-level support for five physical servers and up to 25 virtual Ubuntu servers is US$4,750 for 9x5 standard support and US$17,500 for 24x7 advanced support. Additional support packs are available per physical server and per ten virtual servers for US$1,250 p.a. for standard support and $3,000 p.a. for advanced.

Site support is also available which covers one geographical location. It includes an unlimited number of physical and virtual servers for US$90,000 p.a. for standard support and US$150,000 p.a. for advanced.

Some technology experts believe that the future of the technology is Mobiles. Mobile devices has seen lots and lots of changes in the past few years which were hardly imagined. Now looking at the future Intel and Nokia as annouced a partnership to create a new range of chips designed for mobile devices that moves "beyond today’s smartphones, notebooks and netbooks".

Nokia's device head Kai Öistämö hopes that the new partnership will allow the companies to "explore new ideas in designs, materials and displays that will go far beyond devices and services on the market today", however refused to be drawn on when consumers would likely see fruits of the partnership.

As these both industry giants are expertise as leaders in their respective fields, may be the future devices coming from them has the best features and capbilities of the computing and communications worlds and will transform the user experience, bringing incredible mobile applications and always on, always connected wireless Internet access in a user-friendly pocketable form factor", the two companies said in a joint statement.