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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Who Will Win The Cloud Computing Battle in India?

Till now I have discussed various technical aspects of the Cloud. Going forward I will also cover certain business aspects related to the Cloud. In this article, I want to analyze the opportunity for the Cloud vendors in India. We will first take a look at the ecosystem, the opportunity ...

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

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?

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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Download Slides from TechEd and GIDS

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

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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