Chennai-based Vembu Technologies has launched a backup virtual appliance called StoreGrid Cloud AMI on the Amazon cloud infrastructure. The online backup ‘virtual appliance’ on Amazon Web Services is supposed to let service providers offer an online backup service to their small and medium business (SMB) customers without any upfront capital investment in a data center. […]
A report co-authored by a desi says that H1B Visa admissions into the U.S. pull down wages for native IT programmers and systems analysts by 5%-6%. Are you surprised? You shouldn’t be: Because coolies always work for less (you know just like the Walmart slogan We sell for less you see on the back of their […]
The bozos at Sun have at last managed to find someone to put them out of their misery after the smart folks at IBM bailed out a few weeks back. Database giant Oracle is buying Sun for $5.6 billion (after accounting for Sun’s debt and cash). We think Oracle overpaid by $5.6 billion. The deal […]
Hus ke liye hai Pakistan, ladh ke lenge Hindustan (We achieved Pakistan laughing; we will take India fighting) – Pakistani Soldiers, sometime in the early 1960s around the time of the 1965 Indo-Pak war (cited in Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi P.401) Fast forward 44 years Pakistan is on the verge of collapse as a failed […]
The other day SI readers boopalanj and guruprasad brought up the issue of different types of torture including the Chinese and Medieval flavors. We were reminded of it today as we were reading an article in the Sunday edition of our favorite newspaper, the New York Times. On P.12 of the print edition of the […]
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK leader M.Karunanidhi has lost his marbles and therefore gets a new name – Loose Paiya (crackpot). The decrepit dinosaur told Indian TV channel NDTV that Velupillai Prabhakaran (the notorious LTTE terrorist) is not a terrorist and is his good friend. No, we’re not making this one up, folks. This […]