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IBF Media’s PaaS Panel Discussion

IBF Media

IBF Media has been running a series of events called Capital Connection 2010 which is focused on serving the needs of entrepreneurs looking to connect with participants in the venture capital eco-system, technology executives, and to get access to capital and resources to help build their growing enterprises. The latest in the series was a [...]

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K-MUG DevCon 2010

K-MUG DevCon 2010

Last week, I had the opportunity to present at the DevCon 2010 event hosted by the Kerala Microsoft User Group. I am thoroughly impressed by the quality of the event. The event organizers handled it very professionally. I am impressed by the hospitality and the overall quality of the event. I delivered the keynote on [...]

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Speaking at Capital Connection 2010

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IBF Media is running a series of events covering various trends in Cloud Computing. This event presents and discusses one of the key challenges of cloud computing, which is defining successful business models and architectures for value creation in the enterprise. At this nascent stage both SMEs and large enterprises are just beginning to adopt [...]

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CloudCamp Bangalore & Hadoop Summit

This post comes live from CloudCamp Bangalore & Hadoop Summit. After delivering CloudCamp across India, Dave Neilsen, Prem and the India team of CloudCamp reached Bangalore. The event started with Yahoo! folks delivering the keynote on Hadoop and Cloud Computing. It was interesting to see the efforts of Yahoo! in this space. After the keynote, [...]

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Personal Branding and Evangelism

After covering the key traits of a technology evangelist and why technology evangelism matters, I want to discuss personal branding in the context of evangelism. Before the interweb took over the print media, I grew up reading the tech. columns written by Yashwant Kanetkar, Dr. Nitin Paranjpe, Dr. Vijay Mukhi in Express Computer. In the [...]

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Why Technology Evangelism Matters?

A decade back only a handful of folks carried the title of an ‘Evangelist’ on their business cards. This role was predominantly found within software product and developer platform companies. It is Apple, Microsoft, Sun and Google that made this title sound very cool. Today it is common to find Evangelists in the corporate world. [...]

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Microsoft Community TechDays

I had the opportunity to be a part of Microsoft Community TechDays at Hyderabad and Bangalore. What is special about CTD? This is run completely by the community and the User Groups with a very little support from Microsoft. The Hyderabad CTD was held on 20th September at Microsoft campus. I had the privilege to [...]

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Windows Azure Series at B.NET – Part II

The second part of Windows Azure series (scheduled for Oct. 10th at 11AM) will cover the Compute and Storage aspects of Windows Azure. This session will provide you an end to end walk through of writing your first Cloud application. Most of the B.NET members reached out to me asking if they can attend this [...]

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Windows Azure Series at B.NET

I am starting a series of sessions focused on Windows Azure at B.NET User Group. The idea is to cover the key concepts of Cloud Computing and Windows Azure. Please visit B.NET for more details.

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Bangalore GTUG Launch Was a Grand Success

This post comes little late but it is never too late to share good things. Bangalore GTUG launch was attended by more than 70 developers. Thanks to Google Bangalore for not only hosting this event but also providing the attendees with free Wi-Fi and a delicious lunch Here is a detailed post on the launch.

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