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VMforce – What’s in it for us?

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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Cloud App and the Unmanned Aircraft System

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

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

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

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

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

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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Microsoft, Please Don’t Kill Live Mesh!

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

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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My Interview on Cloud at IndicThreads.com

Harshad Oak, founder of Rightrix Solutions runs a Technology Portal called IndicThreads.com. IndicThreads is synonymous with the popular, independent annual Java conference conducted at Pune. They approached me for an interview on Cloud Computing. You can find it here.

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