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Is Private Cloud the Future of IT?

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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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Cloud Computing – What’s in it for you?

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

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

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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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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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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Top 10 Myths of Cloud Computing

As we step into the new year of 2010, I want to discuss the top 10 myths of Cloud Computing. Quite a few experts tried to debunk the myths earlier. My attempt is based on what I have seen or heard in my community. The concepts that I am bringing up here cut across IaaS, [...]

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Overview of Amazon Web Services

1. Introducing Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services is one of the early and also the most successful implementations of the Public Cloud. Many well known online properties leverage AWS. Amazon initially started offering a Cloud based Message Queuing service called Amazon Simple Queue Service(SQS). They eventually added services like Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service [...]

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Defining The Cloud

1. Evolution of Cloud Computing 1.1 Evolution of ISP There are multiple factors that led to the evolution of Cloud Computing. One of the key factors is the way Internet Service Providers (ISP) matured over a period of time. I am borrowing this analogy from Forrester Research. From the initial days of offering basic internet [...]

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