ANYONE CAN CUT IT COSTS AS LONG AS THEY USE THE RIGHT KNIFE Are you a Business, Finance or IT leader looking for answers to the following questions? • Why is IT so expensive? • How do we keep IT costs low? • Are we overpaying IT vendors? • Why do IT projects exceed their budget? • Is IT governance unbiased and objective? • Do we know if our IT Assets are fully utilized? • Are we paying for software that we are not using? • The IT team is always busy—are they doing relevant work? Explained in simple, non-technical language, 101 IT Cost saving ideas presented in this book, are proven techniques that will help you ask the right questions from your IT team and discover hidden opportunities to reduce IT spending. Be it spending on IT hardware, software, staffing or outsourced services, even if you get your IT teams to answer a few of the 101 questions, the savings opportunities will exceed your investment in this book. Pick up one more copy. When more managers in your company read this book, the higher will be your savings.
REDUCE CLOUD COMPUTING COST – 101 IDEAS TO SAVE MILLIONS IN PUBLIC CLOUD SPENDING is a book for Information Technology & Finance professionals who are looking for desperate ways to reduce their spending on Amazon, Microsoft or Google public cloud services, without adding risks to their business operations. Leading technology researchers point to the fact that companies waste anywhere between 25-35 % of their cloud budget due to poor planning and bad governance. Researchers also emphasize that 2 out of 3 companies today are looking for ways to optimize their public cloud cost. In this book, you will learn • 40 best practices to buy, provision and control cost of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) landscape • 25 smart tricks to negotiate discounts before buying Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription licenses • 20 recommendations to optimize usage of Platform as a Service (PaaS) products • 16 suggestions for effective planning & governance of public cloud budget By the end of reading this book, you will gain actionable advice on what needs to be done to manage public cloud expenditure and create an organizational culture of coding while keeping cloud cost in control.
This book analyses several aspects of Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM), a form of hybrid public-private partnership (PPP) for development of roads sector in India. The book covers contractual, financing, taxation and accounting aspects of the HAM based PPP projects in India and provides a complete multi-dimensional view for readers. It is a comprehensive guide for multiple stakeholders involved in the development of infrastructure projects in developing economies across globe. The book is authored by professionals having hands-on advisory experience for HAM PPP projects in India. Given that these are long-term concession agreements (around 15 years), there are inherent complications and the authors have tried to provide clarity on practical issues. The book adopts a novel case-study approach. Based on detailed financial and commercial assumptions for a road project in India, the authors have used around 100 numerical illustrations to provide a quantitative and qualitative understanding for readers. Another highlight of the book is use of international case-studies to provide key learnings in areas of project preparation and structuring for such hybrid PPP models. The risk allocation framework is also contrasted with the HAM PPP model to highlight the key differences. The international case studies have been selected from transport and water sector to illustrate the applicability of hybrid PPPs across multiple sectors to support sustainable infrastructure development. The target audience for this book include private sector developers, government agencies, deal practitioners, advisors, researchers and academia . This book will also serve as a useful guide for commercial lenders, development finance institutions (DFIs) and institutional investors who are looking to finance such infrastructure projects in the long term.
ANYONE CAN CUT IT COSTS AS LONG AS THEY USE THE RIGHT KNIFE Are you a Business, Finance or IT leader looking for answers to the following questions? • Why is IT so expensive? • How do we keep IT costs low? • Are we overpaying IT vendors? • Why do IT projects exceed their budget? • Is IT governance unbiased and objective? • Do we know if our IT Assets are fully utilized? • Are we paying for software that we are not using? • The IT team is always busy—are they doing relevant work? Explained in simple, non-technical language, 101 IT Cost saving ideas presented in this book, are proven techniques that will help you ask the right questions from your IT team and discover hidden opportunities to reduce IT spending. Be it spending on IT hardware, software, staffing or outsourced services, even if you get your IT teams to answer a few of the 101 questions, the savings opportunities will exceed your investment in this book. Pick up one more copy. When more managers in your company read this book, the higher will be your savings.
This book analyses several aspects of Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM), a form of hybrid public-private partnership (PPP) for development of roads sector in India. The book covers contractual, financing, taxation and accounting aspects of the HAM based PPP projects in India and provides a complete multi-dimensional view for readers. It is a comprehensive guide for multiple stakeholders involved in the development of infrastructure projects in developing economies across globe. The book is authored by professionals having hands-on advisory experience for HAM PPP projects in India. Given that these are long-term concession agreements (around 15 years), there are inherent complications and the authors have tried to provide clarity on practical issues. The book adopts a novel case-study approach. Based on detailed financial and commercial assumptions for a road project in India, the authors have used around 100 numerical illustrations to provide a quantitative and qualitative understanding for readers. Another highlight of the book is use of international case-studies to provide key learnings in areas of project preparation and structuring for such hybrid PPP models. The risk allocation framework is also contrasted with the HAM PPP model to highlight the key differences. The international case studies have been selected from transport and water sector to illustrate the applicability of hybrid PPPs across multiple sectors to support sustainable infrastructure development. The target audience for this book include private sector developers, government agencies, deal practitioners, advisors, researchers and academia . This book will also serve as a useful guide for commercial lenders, development finance institutions (DFIs) and institutional investors who are looking to finance such infrastructure projects in the long term.
REDUCE CLOUD COMPUTING COST – 101 IDEAS TO SAVE MILLIONS IN PUBLIC CLOUD SPENDING is a book for Information Technology & Finance professionals who are looking for desperate ways to reduce their spending on Amazon, Microsoft or Google public cloud services, without adding risks to their business operations. Leading technology researchers point to the fact that companies waste anywhere between 25-35 % of their cloud budget due to poor planning and bad governance. Researchers also emphasize that 2 out of 3 companies today are looking for ways to optimize their public cloud cost. In this book, you will learn • 40 best practices to buy, provision and control cost of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) landscape • 25 smart tricks to negotiate discounts before buying Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription licenses • 20 recommendations to optimize usage of Platform as a Service (PaaS) products • 16 suggestions for effective planning & governance of public cloud budget By the end of reading this book, you will gain actionable advice on what needs to be done to manage public cloud expenditure and create an organizational culture of coding while keeping cloud cost in control.
Trying to protect his pregnant wife, scientist Ashwin Rathore gets killed – unexpectedly and unwantedly. A deadly force lurks in the murk that wants her too, but why? Is it because she works for and with the military and Intelligence teams in the country, or is it because she knows something that no one else does?
Enacted for historical reasons on 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India provided that the Supreme Court of India, situated in New Delhi, was to have one Chief Justice of India, and not more than seven judges. Today, the Court has 33 judges in addition to the Chief Justice of India. But who are these judges, and where did they come from? Its central thesis is that despite all established formal constitutional requirements, there are three informal criteria which are used for appointing judges to the Supreme Court: age, seniority, and diversity. The author examines debates surrounding the Indian judicial system since the institution of the federal court during the British Raj. This leads to a study of the political developments that resulted in the present 'collegium system' of appointing judges to the Supreme Court of India. Based on more than two dozen interviews personally conducted by the author with former judges of the Supreme Court of India, this book uniquely brings to the fore the unwritten criteria that have determined the selection of judges to the highest court of law in this country for over six decades.
Swarm intelligence is one of the fastest growing subfields of artificial intelligence and soft computing. This field includes multiple optimization algorithms to solve NP-hard problems for which conventional methods are not effective. It inspires researchers in engineering sciences to learn theories from nature and incorporate them. Swarm Intelligence: Foundation, Principles, and Engineering Applications provides a comprehensive review of new swarm intelligence techniques and offers practical implementation of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) with MATLAB code. The book discusses the statistical analysis of swarm optimization techniques so that researchers can analyse their experiment design. It also includes algorithms in social sectors, oil and gas industries, and recent research findings of new optimization algorithms in the field of engineering describing the implementation in machine learning. This book is written for students of engineering, research scientists, and academicians involved in the engineering sciences.
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