Walking in the Clouds - Cloud Computing Summit 2010 - Part II

After ERP Cloud Connect, it was the turn of Microsoft with its Cloud strategy. Mr. Srikanth Karnakota, Director - Cloud Strategy, Microsoft made an energetic presentation about the potential of Cloud with more focus on the Indian SMB segment. 

He pointed out that from his experience, he observed that cost proposition plays a major role in the Indian market as compared to the Cloud paradigm in the case of adoption of Cloud computing in India.

Walking in the Clouds - Cloud Computing Summit 2010 - Part I

The foggy clouds, insecure by the incessant talks about them everywhere, conspired to make their presence felt with their overwhelming presence, delaying the flights of the speakers who had boarded the flight to atend “Cloud Computing Summit” on 26^th November at Novotel Hyderabad.  The organizers, however undeterred by the clouds, shuffled the slots and organized the conference without any hitch.

Before I get into this long account of this conference, let me make myself clear about my qualifications. I am not a techie/nerd to comment on the technical aspects of Cloud computing. ( Look deep into the picture and identify yours truly who is staring at his desktop while others are looking at the podium)
I understand the business aspects of cloud computing and I have been quite passionately following the developments in this sector. Please feel free to correct if I have mispelt any of the technical stuff which I attempt to write in this.

Cloud Computing Summit 2010 @ Novotel, Hyderabad

Cloud Computing Summit is being organized for the first time in a grand manner in Hyderabad tomorrow, 26th November 2010. While there has been too much of noise in India about the huge potential of Cloud Computing, especially in the context of India's robust IT landscape, there has been fairly less adoption amongst businesses in this front. I am pretty excited about this summit. I am travelling tonight to Hyderabad to cover this event as a blogger. If you have any questions to be asked to the speakers( listed below), do mail me or post as comment at this blog.

Mobile Application Developers Meet @ Chennai

Today’s customer is a different breed altogether. He wishes God for more apps than angels to wade through his humdrum life with its mundane chores. With Apps for everything that could be conceived, it wouldn’t be blasphemous to say that Apps are the elves of the twenty first century for the networked customer, ready to do whatever he wishes for.

He wants innovation although he isn’t willing to pay for it. Gone are the days when choice meant everything. In today’s Apps Yug, he is willing to forsake choice for simplicity. While the leading platform companies such as Adobe, Apple, Google are in a blood feud for dominance, with every player trying to create unique APIs and runtimes with nothing short of an audacious ambition to control the entire content of the Web, today’s networked customer couldn’t have asked for more. 

What does this mean for developers? 

Centralized Vs Decentralized Cycle

One of the perennial debates which has played a crucial role in the evolution of computing and continues to play a pivotal role at the undercurrents of the seismic technological shift we are experiencing today is the debate between centralized vs decentralized architecture. This debate has mind boggling ramifications in the way our social, political, business systems will be designed in the future. (Although, I am aware some would argue that political systems would affect otherwise, that’s another post for some other time)

While  it is possible to dismiss this debate under the purview of a recurring, evolutionary cycle driven by economics and a host of other factors, 

Reflections up in the air about our connected age

I Watched Up in the Air few weeks ago. I loved the movie. While I was ruminating about the film, I felt I wasn't going beneath the surface of this tragicomical film at the first glance. It took few random viewings to savor the whole movie in totality and reflect on what the movie told about our connected lives. Up in the Air is an interesting commentary about our modern, networked lives and the role technology plays in relating with others.

Up in the Air begins with a montage of beautiful aerial shots with the opening credits floating over the clouds.

Go Open to Save the World - Expanded Version

While I had uploaded my presentation which I made for TEDx Pune, I received comments from some of my friends that they couldnt get the entire flow of thought as my presentation had only pictures and nothing else. I hate to put text in ppts. I want the slides to be the connecting dots for the story that I wish to narrate in my presentation.

As I couldnt get the video of my presentation, I am putting the text of what I spoke based on what I remember as of now.

Introduction:

My idea is titled, "Go Open to Save the World". Before I get to the core idea of my presentation,