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Introducing hadoop in 20 pages.
We have been working with hadoop for the last couple of years Patches, but we still find it tough to get other people in our company started on it. I came up with this blog as a starting point and was kinda popular internally, so am moving it here now. Introducing hadoop in 20 pages [...]
Delivering again and again!
Delivering value again and again Business needs to optimize their spending and still get greater value over time with the money they spend on services. ISV’s venturing into offshore development has to evaluate their vendors with parameters that measure the value of the vendor more quantitatively. They could also use empirical methods to determine the [...]
Financial Technology 3.0
Advent of cloud computing, virtualization, mobility and social computing paradigms have enabled newer definitions for the entire financial technology space.FT 3.0 is all about reaching the unreached. It is more about being inclusive and leveraging the un-tapped lower strata of the pyramid which is more dynamic in both consumption and spending. Existing financial solutions across [...]
Financial Industries and Cloud Services- Trends and Innovations
Financial industry has been through tough path post 2008 recession. It went through gigantic turmoil, and its on a restructuring phase. One of the foremost industries to adopt Information technology is Financial sector. Although most companies are adopting to Cloud at a faster pace, the financial sector remained an exception. Selling cloud computing to financial [...]
Cloud musings!
Suddenly, everyone is looking for fuel efficient cars. That is what is happening with IT resources as well. Cloud is enabling that to happen in a very rapid and scalable manner. Over the last decade, there has been a real push to look at IT services from the service centric point of view. Businesses that [...]
Deploying & hosting application on Amazon-ec2 Unix environment.
Amazon ec2 presents a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to requisition machines for use, load them with your custom application environment, manage your network’s access permissions, and run your image using as many or few systems as you desire. Pre-requisites : 1)Account for amazon S3 and ec2 . 2)Command-line [...]
SAS70- Helps you choose the right on demand ISV
As an IT strategist if you are stuck in choosing the right on demand application that fits your bill, Applying SAS70 compliance as a filter criteria will make your life better. Otherwise ever growing list of on demand software solutions to choose from for every business makes your life really difficult.. We all know that [...]
Cloud-based Medical Services Offer Relief
Use cases of cloud computing’s impact on health care is very compelling for a IT strategist at a health care institution to have a look at. In continuation to the blog post on education, With contributions from Sivaram, i have tried to represent what it means to Healthcare. Whether its Google or Microsoft people now [...]
Using Eucalyptus for developing private & public Cloud
I’ve been doing some work with Eucalyptus Cloud setup lately and I thought I could speak about my experience with it. I was interested in the possibility of using other popular open source available in cloud domain and I thought Eucalyptus could be a good candidate for developing Private & Public clouds. Many instructions said below [...]
Dreamforce 2009:Key Items, Updates and Our thoughts
To understand the next logical steps around sf.com application development and integration services there was no better source than Dreamforce 2009. Even though i could not attend, I was carefully going over a lot of updates, videos and webinars, blogs related to Dreamforce 2009 and here are some key updates i had jotted. It gives [...]