Gartner calls it “transformational” & the industry bigwigs refer to it as the next “Internet-like” revolution in enterprise computing…

An emerging IT delivery model—cloud computing— can significantly reduce IT costs & complexities while improving workload optimization and service delivery. Cloud computing is massively scalable, provides a superior user experience, and is characterized by new, internet-driven economics.

Merrill Lynch’s research article indicated $ 95 Billion as a global forecast for the value of the cloud computing market in the next five years – at that point, more than 10 percent of the software market could be sucked into the cloud. Another recent study found more than two-thirds of Americans use some kind of Web-based services – email, photo storage, online applications or storage.

Cloud computing has become a craze world-over with the flexibility of an access-anywhere, high scalability, pay-as-you go model and is beneficial for clients. Software companies only need to manage one version of their software at a time and enjoy recurring revenue flow. Its like a silver lining quote coming true for Clients who now can foresee getting world-class IT capabilities at a reasonable cost sans staffing and in house process management.

This has led to the setting-up of research labs by reputable IT companies for doing innovation on the cloud, discovering new tools, enabling of virtualization, leading to proliferation of numerous SaaS/on-demand applications that can help the clients reduce cost and increase profitability without compromising on the quality of the work.

“Web 2.0″ and “Enterprise 2.0″ were the latest buzzwords to be debated by the technology elite. It could be well disputed that a common definition was never agreed upon – but it didn’t impact adoption of the technology. Facebook is an excellent example which, incidentally, has its own Cloud of 10,000 servers across the U.S.

One of the promises of the cloud is ‘customer friendliness’ – deploying a service in the cloud must be just as easy as becoming a member on any social networking site. Cloud services must be virally distributed, require no training, fast to install and instantly usable.

Ultimately, the cloud will be successful for enterprise customers only if it can deliver value on a large scale basis. Friction-free adoption and rapid ROI are musts. There is no room for the traditional technology adoption cycle, with its long deployment and significant integration investments.

At CSS, we constantly strive to deliver out-of-the-box solutions to customers and we are proud to admit that we were the most early adopters of cloud and have set-up research labs to get innovative tools for our clients. In this regard, we have developed our CloudTestGo practice and offer an on-demand Performance Testing solution that enables Load testing of all products, including web and non-web applications and services in the Cloud.

Using CloudTestGo, enterprises can quickly and cost-effectively create a real world Load Testing environment without investing in complex infrastructures, new hardware or expensive software licensing.

Join us in a Webinar to discover and explore CloudTestGo, to discover how your organization can benefit from our offering. Join us to discuss how, why & what on Jan 21^st at 8 pm IST. Register today.

CSS takes immense pleasure in being a part of the 9^th Annual Software Testing Conference ’09, to be held between November 19-20^th, 2009 at Hotel Le Meridian, Bangalore, India.

Mr Ramakrishnan Sitaraman, our Lead Consultant, Testing Practice will be presenting a whitepaper on CloudTestGo – Cloud based Performance Testing at the conference on the 19^th at 3.40 PM and we would like to take this opportunity to invite you to attend the session and learn more about CSS innovations in the “Emerging Areas” segment.

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CSS CloudTestGo:

CSS proven performance engineering expertise over the past 10 years along with exposure to cloud computing has enabled CSS to offer CloudTestGo – an on-demand Performance Testing solution using JLTT, CSS’ home-grown Performance Testing tool. It enables load testing of all your products including web and non-web applications and services, in the cloud. You can quickly and cost-effectively create a real world Load Testing environment without having to invest in complex infrastructures, new hardware or expensive software licensing.

CSS Testing Practice:

CSS Performance engineering solutions helps clients to identify potential performance problems, fix bottleneck, benchmark the performance of the application, reduce application response time, improve customer or end-user experience, enhance responsiveness, improve productivity and ensure optimum performance. We have helped large organizations – including Fortune 500 companies to improve the speed, endurance, scalability, reliability and efficiency of applications be it web, client-server or n-tier architecture applications.

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CSS is an IBM Advanced Business Partner offering IT consulting services and software solutions to small, medium and large companies across the globe, solving business critical challenges on collaboration, system integration and infrastructure management and help organizations graduate through various collaboration levels enabling Smart Work Desks.

CSS acts as the ideal partner of choice to study and provide solutions on the Lotus Software environment for medium and large enterprises such as Workflow and Digitization Solutions, Help Desk Application Management, Knowledge Management, Workflow Engine Solutions, Content Management, Customer Relation Management, Business Analysis and Process Modeling Solutions, PDA and Mobile-Based Solutions, Lotus Software Connector and API Solutions.

About the Event:

The Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held annually is the most exciting that covers the fast-emerging Cloud Computing market, bringing together players from the main layers of the Cloud computing space. It will be a splendid forum to learn cutting-edge strategies for implementing, developing and managing the delivery of cost effective applications through on-demand cloud computing ecosystems.

Our Cloud Story:

CSS is one of the early adopters of cloud computing technology heading the race in being the first to offer cloud-based advantages for our clients on Amazon’s Public Cloud. We leverage a host of customizable tools and platforms to provide unique and reputed services that truly enable you to “Go Cloud”. Having reputation and embracing new technology and trends, CSS Labs have also developed and tested in-house platforms such as CloudBuddy, Cloud Test Go, Cloud Vault, Cloud Wizard that enable cloud-based services.

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