Do We Need ODBC for the Cloud?

July 15, 2010
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It is a good sign that Google has decided to expose their Storage API based on Amazon S3 API. Eucalyptus Walrus Storage API is completely compatible with S3. There has been a discussion on standardizing the API for the Cloud Storage. What fueled this discussion further is a poll that ReadWriteWeb.com ran on their site.While [...]

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IBF Media’s PaaS Panel Discussion

July 14, 2010
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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

July 12, 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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Is Private Cloud the Future of IT?

July 6, 2010
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Cloud Computing can be realized through multiple implementation models. One of the implementations that is gaining a lot of interest is the Private Cloud.  This article attempts to look at the key attributes of an ideal Private Cloud and takes a futuristic view of the Private Cloud in an enterprise from the IaaS perspective. Private [...]

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Speaking at Capital Connection 2010

July 1, 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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Cloud Computing – What’s in it for you?

June 28, 2010

The expectations around Cloud Computing are very high. It is one of the most discussed terminologies among CIOs, developers and IT managers. While there is certainly more hype around it than what it really is, Cloud Computing is definitely promising. Gartner calls the year 2010 as the year of Cloud Computing. No doubt! Cloud Computing [...]

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Cloud Personas and Their Concerns

June 24, 2010

As one of the stakeholders of the Cloud ecosystem, I persuade, motivate and encourage decision makers in my circle to take a serious look at the Cloud. I want to share my experiences of having these conversations with the audiences. Off late, I came across a few IT Managers and technology decision makers whose thought [...]

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Cloud Architecture Session by Amazon

June 7, 2010

On June 2nd, Matt Tavis, Solution Architect from Amazon Web Services has delivered a talk to the Cloud Computing community in Bangalore. The session was hosted by ThoughtWorks. Despite being a working day, we had about 40 attendees who made it an interactive session. Here are a few interesting links covering this event – Notes [...]

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Is it Azure vs. Rest of the World on the Cloud?

May 20, 2010

The landscape of the application development platform is divided into two – .NET and Java. When Microsoft announced .NET a decade back, I expected that they would officially come out with an Application Server to compete with the Weblogic and the Webspheres of the world. But Microsoft’s pitch has always been that Windows Server has [...]

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VMforce – What’s in it for us?

April 28, 2010

Yesterday, SalesForce.com and VMware jointly announced a new PaaS offering called VMforce. This is a huge announcement that has a very strong impact on the Cloud ecosystem. Let’s see what it means to us. The enterprise application development platform is dominated by two obvious platforms – .NET and Java. I qualified my statement with the [...]

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