CloudStory.in – January Highlights

February 1, 2012
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One of the roles that I play is being the Chief Editor at CloudStory.in. I am thoroughly enjoying the new gig and this turned me into a professional blogger! The highlight of the month has been the Webinar that I delivered on PaaS. I also covered the detailed analysis of various PaaS players and I [...]

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Slides from the CloudStory.in PaaS Webinar

January 31, 2012
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Last week we hosted our first Webinar at CloudStory.in in partnership with Zinnov on Navigating the PaaS Maze in the Cloud. The response was overwhelming! Here are the slides from the Webinar  

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Analyzing the PaaS Landscape – Force.com

January 31, 2012
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I am helping one of my customers choose the right development and deployment platform. They are building an extremely data-centric and process-driven application. In the process of choosing the right development and deployment platforms, I evaluated existing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. Deploying an application on IaaS will [...]

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Is VMware the new Microsoft in the PaaS World?

January 30, 2012
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In 2000, Microsoft announced that it is building a brand new runtime and a framework called .NET. At the heart of .NET was the Common Language Runtime (CLR) designed to execute an assembly like language known as Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL). This was at a time when Sun was trying to lure the developers away [...]

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A Peek into Amazon DynamoDB

January 27, 2012
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Last week Amazon Web Services added another feather in the cap in the form of a brand new NoSQL service called DynamoDB. Though it looks like yet another announcement from the Amazon stable, this is huge. It has a strong impact not just on AWS but the industry. In the last couple of years, there [...]

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Q & A Session with the Red Hat CEO

January 27, 2012
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Last week I had the privilege of being on stage with the CEO of Red Hat Mr. Jim WhiteHurst and the GM of Red Hat India, Mr. Anuj Kumar. I was invited to be a part of the OpenEdge event that Red Hat has hosted for their enterprise customers in India. Red Hat has a [...]

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Developers Are The New Super Heroes Of The Cloud

January 11, 2012
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I always believe that the developers are the most powerful resources in the IT ecosystem. Entrepreneurs may dream, VCs may invest and architects may design highly scalable applications. But it is the developer who will turn all of this into reality. He breaths life into an idea that otherwise will just be yet another idea [...]

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What’s in Store for the Cloud in 2012?

January 4, 2012
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Many industry experts analyzed and predicted the Cloud Computing trends for 2012. Here is a list of what I think is in store for the Cloud this New Year. SSD based Cloud Storage – I was hoping to see the Cloud storage vendors offering SSD based storage options in 2011. But, for some reason that [...]

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How the Platform War Has Shifted to the Cloud

January 3, 2012
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Platform wars are not new to us. I have personally survived a few in the last two decades and I think I am all set to witness the biggest platform battle in the next couple of years. But this time the battleground is different. It has moved from the desktops to the servers to the [...]

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Announcing Janakiram 2.0

January 1, 2012
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I am writing this post almost after a year since my last blog post. The last couple of years (2010 and 2011) have been phenomenal for me. Especially, the last 12 months of being an Evangelist with Amazon Web Services gave me tremendous opportunity to engage with customers, partners and the community in India. I [...]

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