Focus On Your Customers And Not Competitors
A lorry is a symbol of Indian logistics and the person who is posing against it is about to rethink infrastructure and logistics in India. Jeff Bezos is enjoying his trip to India charting Amazon’s growth plan where competitors like Flipkart have been aggressively growing and have satisfied customer base. This is not the first […]
Hacking Into The Indian Education System Reveals Score Tampering
Debarghya Das has a fascinating story on how he managed to bypass a silly web security layer to get access to the results of 150,000 ISCE (10th grade) and 65,000 ISC (12th grade) students in India. While lack of security and total ignorance to safeguard sensitive information is an interesting topic what is more fascinating […]
Intelligent Platforms – PaaS For The Internet Of Things
Recently, I travelled to India to give a talk at Cloud Connect conference in Bangalore. The talk is based on the Intelligent Platforms model I have been advocating in this space. It is similar to what I spoke at the Pitney Bowes Data Day event with little modifications. I have embedded the slides below. Intelligent […]
Is India Becoming The Next Cloud Destination?
APAC was a hot destination for cloud vendors last year and the trend is continuing this year too. However, it appears India could turn out to be the next stop in their journey. Last year, Tata Communications used the now Citrix CloudStack to launch their public cloud offering in India. Theirs was the first public […]
To RIM: Don’t Change The Strategy, Change The Rules
A lot has been said and discussed about RIM’s downfall: indecisive leadership, inability to innovate at fast pace, and no clear path to recovery. I don’t disagree at all with the analysis and the interpretation of the situation, but I do disagree with the conclusion that many people are drawing and vehemently disagree with their […]
Bangalore Embodies The Silicon Valley
I spent a few days in Bangalore this month. This place amazes me every single time I visit it. Many people ask me whether I think Bangalore has potential to be the next Silicon Valley. I believe, it’s a wrong question. There’s some seriously awesome talent in India, especially in Bangalore. Don’t copy the Silicon Valley. […]
Global Cloud Computing – Cultural Issues
As cloud computing gets adopted by people in many different countries around the world, across all the continents, it is quite evident that different countries see cloud computing with different lenses. There are many issues that affect the adoption of cloud computing, from regulatory issues to cultural issues to economic issues. At the recently concluded […]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Orangescape Helps Business Users Design Applications On Cloud
Orangescape is an India based PaaS provider offering a higher level of abstraction for business users to design applications without any programming knowledge. They are clearly targeting a group of users who want to develop apps based on the business logic without getting their hands dirty in code. I recently had a chance to talk […]
India’s First Full Fledged Cloud Infrastructure Offering
Tata Communications, India’s leading service provider, announced an expansion of their cloud offerings, making it the first comprehensive India based cloud solution available for customers. Today, they announced the addition of Instacompute and Instaoffice to their list of offerings. The launch marks the company’s expansion in the cloud space to deliver self-service, pay-as-you-use IT application […]
Google Partners With Tata Communications To Take Google Apps To Indian Businesses
Google has been successful in pushing their hosted office suite with businesses in USA. Even though they are nowhere closer to dislodging Microsoft in this space, they are slowly but steadily eating away the Microsoft marketshare. I think their move to target the CIOs of the future by luring the educational institutions (which Microsoft did […]
Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players – Not So Fast
This is the second post on the topic I have been emphasizing on many different forums. My earlier post, Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players – A Shortsighted Idea, laid out philosophical and economic reasonings against the idea of the emergence of handful of infrastructure providers. This idea is a pet theme for many cloud pundits. […]
Gartner Talks About The Role Of Cloud Computing In IT Organizations In The Coming Years
The analyst firm Gartner has made some predictions regarding how IT organizations will shape up in the next few years of this decade. Some of these predictions are about how Cloud Computing will transform IT and I will highlight them here in this post. One of the most important predictions by Gartner is that 20% […]
India Needs Public Policy And Service Innovation And Not Web 2.0 Companies
The second most populous country with the fourth largest spending power, India, saw a surprising 7.9% YOY GDP growth well above the expectations of 6.3%. The Indian stock market recovered much quicker since the US financial meltdown. In fact one of my friends who oversees sales of a European earthmoving equipments company in India complained […]
Yahoo Takes Another Step In Promoting Cloud Computing
Image via Wikipedia Yahoo Inc, the battered internet giant, is helping institutions in India to modify their curriculum so that students are trained on cloud computing technologies. Even though the name Yahoo doesn’t usually come up in many discussions related to Cloud Computing, they are doing some really great work from behind. They are a big […]
Salesforce.com’s India Plans
Image by via CrunchBase Salesforce.com is planning to invade Indian market. According to a report in the Industry Standard, Doug Farber, Vice President of Salesforce’s Asia Pacific operations, told the media that they are planning to focus on some select cities like Hyderabad, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Mumbai. They are hoping to slowly create awareness about […]
