“Open, Flexible and Solid” Cloud Offering from Microsoft – Windows Azure

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Sangram Rath | Comments(0)

Cloud Computing has been a ‘HOT’ topic of the IT industry for quite a few years now. And Microsoft is no new player in this category. Microsoft’s cloud history dates back to October 2008 when it announced the first CTP of Windows Azure.

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Intel is getting ready to join the cloud computing race?

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(0)

I have long said publicly that Intel will have to enter the public cloud market. The reasons are quite simple. There was a time when majority of the hardware was bought by individuals, or smaller and medium size companies. As these entities had limited bargaining power, Intel was able to get high margin for their hardware products.

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Big Data Career Opportunities

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(1)

Big Data is the buzzword in the Indian IT industry at the moment. But is there any essence behind this hype? I often get asked about career opportunities in Big Data field and so I though I will write this blog to give my views.

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AWS Launches CloudHSM (Hardware Security Module) For Managing Encryption Keys

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(0)

AWS just released a new service CloudHSM which stands for Cloud Hardware Security Module.Typically companies that needed their data encrypted before storing into AWS S3, or any other service, needed to manage these encryption keys themselves. Mostly these key were stored on-premise and thus it made hard co-ordinating with application and data in AWS.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk added support for Node.js

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(0)

AWS Elastic Beanstalk service, which is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) like offering by AWS, recently added support for Node.js. Node.js is quickly becoming a very popular for distributed and scalable web applications. Unlike traditional web applications, Node.js is its own webserver, thus negating the need for a separate webserver in the application.

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VMware Cloud offerings plans to take on AWS and other Cloud Services

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(0)

VMware is the market leader in virtualization, but a forgotten name in Cloud. Famously the CEO said something in the essence that he is not worried about public cloud, but public clouds not running VMware. And that makes sense. AWS, the largest Public Cloud player, uses Citrix Zen and not VMware.

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AWS Users Group Mumbai March Meetup

Posted on March 23, 2013 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Come join us for the March Meetup for AWS User Group Mumbai. The venue is our office in Andheri-W, right next to the train station on SV Road. More info on the Meetup page.

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How to use AWS EC2 AMI Copy Feature

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(0)

Until now it was a bit difficult to have the same EC2 AMI copied into multiple regions. AWS recently released the feature to be able to copy your AMI across regions. This is a big step in deploying scalable application that exists across multiple regions.

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Coming Soon!!

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(0)

Hold tight. We are putting new content soon!!