Every other day there is a new cloud product / platform announcement. Not just startups even the mega ISVs are jumping into the cloud bandwagon. Oracle’s Larry Elision first says cloud is all crap and then announces ‘Cloud-in-a-box’ sort of an oxymoron and in this year’s OOW Oracle makes a flamboyant announcement is just one [...] Read More
Two prominent developments in the recent past are influencing how we design and deploy software, Cloud Computing and Mobile Computing. Cloud computing with its inherent scale on demand removes the constraint to design for a fixed hardware capacity; software has to scale as and when required. With mobile computing becoming pervasive, having a mobile application [...] Read More
It can be argued that Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) have been sufficiently commoditized so as to neutralize any “breakthrough” competitive advantage they might originally have presented. In simple terms, once everybody’s doing it, you have to do it just to keep pace. If only one bank had Automated Teller Machines, that bank would have a big [...] Read More
Vendor lock in has been an issue voiced against cloud computing since the term achieved popularity. Enterprises with boat loads of investment in computing infrastructure didn’t take cloud seriously sensing the risk, but the advantages of the cloud far outweighed the disadvantages for startups. Hence cloud services saw massive adoption in them. Heroku, AirBnB and [...] Read More
It’s almost a routine now. Every time we find ourselves at a developer forum or a technical conference, there’s invariably a question on how to get started on the cloud. The mindset and the perception has been that the cloud is the next .NET or Java. Unfortunately, some of the well known training institutes and [...] Read More
The concepts that are brought up here cut across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. If you disagree with any of the points, please feel free to start a discussion at the end of the post. 10. Only the CIO is concerned about cloud While the CIO is the decision maker and may take the final call [...] Read More
The enterprise, government, startups and the system integrators are keenly watching the space of cloud computing. While it is a fact that only companies with deep pockets like Microsoft, Google and Amazon can get into the business of providing the cloud infrastructure, the contribution from other companies is absolutely critical for the cloud to become viable and real.
By Sriram V Iyer In my last piece, we discussed what cloud computing meant exactly and tried to unravel the lingo behind the technology. In effect, cloud computing did sound like a technological panacea from utopia for all problems for elastic computing and storage. However, it is not so. There are some significant technological and political [...] Read More
Girish C Joshi is the Emerging Business and Mobile Lead at Microsoft India. The global computing giant has very ambitious plans with respect to fostering innovation in India and creating opportunities for Indian entrepreneurs. In this guest article for YourStory, Girish talks about the various initiatives that Microsoft has undertaken to promote entrepreneurship in India and how [...] Read More
I recently came across this post on Quora that talks about various hosting options for Indian startups and found it very informational – http://b.qr.ae/IndianStartups-HostingOptions. Many early stage startups are faced with the question of where to host especially as they get off the ground. Key questions they have are: what are my hosting options, costs [...] Read More
