Download Slides from TechEd and GIDS

April 26, 2010

Go to the Talks section of the website to download the slides. Last two weeks have been incredibly busy. Preparing and delivering a session at TechEd has become an annual ritual for me. Right after TechEd India 2010, it was the Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 that kept me busy. This was my 10th TechEd [...]

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Cloud App and the Unmanned Aircraft System

April 9, 2010

According to Wikipedia, an unmanned aircraft system or unmanned aerial vehicle is an aircraft that flies without human crew on board the aircraft. … a UAV is defined as a reusable, uncrewed vehicle capable of controlled , sustained, level flight and powered by a jet or reciprocating engine. So, what is the difference between an [...]

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Cloud as the Meta Platform

March 30, 2010

I recently attempted running Sun Glassfish and JVM on Azure. I am obviously inspired by Steve Marx who posted his ideas around the same. But this exercise of porting non MS stuff to Azure gave me a whole new perspective of the Cloud that I want to share with you. At a very high level, [...]

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How Sun Missed the Bus to the Cloud

March 25, 2010

It is a known fact that Java never helped Sun in generating enough revenues to keep it going. Commercial App Server vendors like IBM, BEA/Oracle have benefitted more from Java than Sun. Sun got carried away with the initial euphoria around Java created by the developer community. Though Microsoft came out with the unified language [...]

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Download The eBook: Demystifying The Cloud

March 22, 2010

I wanted to write a technical book for a long time. Though some of the well known publishers approached me, I never mustered enough courage to sign up and commit to them. With a full time job and a busy schedule, I am not sure if I would be able to meet the deadlines and [...]

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Cloud and the Consumer – Part II

March 2, 2010

The first part of ‘Cloud and the Consumer’ series discussed how to move bookmarks to the Cloud and keep them synchronized across browsers. In this article, I will tell you how to keep your calendar, contacts and email in sync with your phone by moving them to the Cloud. Did you ever lose your phone [...]

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CloudCamp Bangalore & Hadoop Summit

February 28, 2010

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

February 25, 2010

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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Microsoft, Please Don’t Kill Live Mesh!

February 23, 2010

I am a huge fan of Live Mesh. I started using Live Mesh (during my stint at Microsoft) even before it was announced to the public. Live Mesh was announced at Mix08 in April 2008 amid fanfare by Ray Ozzie. Ozzie passionately positioned Live Mesh as a “single device mesh”. The Sync culture was brought [...]

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Data on the Cloud – Amazon S3

February 21, 2010

Storage is one of the key resources offered as a Cloud Service. By moving data to the Cloud, there are quite a few benefits. Some of them include: 1. Illusion of unlimited storage – Unlike hosting, Cloud storage will virtually give you access to unlimited storage. You will never run out of space on the [...]

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