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A Pedestrian has NO right of passage in Powai, why single out  Powai this may be true for most parts of Mumbai /Bombay. It is a wonderful experience to take a walk in the streets of Powai in the evening, not only it energizes you but it also keeps you alert and makes you combat ready. The first rule  is to look on the surface of the road more than you look ahead, since you will have to navigate through the doggy  and human poo on the road. Since there are no walkways for pedestrians you will have to walk on the road, competing with bicycles, motorcycles, cars, auto rickshaws, trucks and also pedestrians, you need to be Agile to overcome these obstacles. Also you will have to be  alert for a speeding vehicle whose driver owns the roadway, so one has to be careful and give the vehicle right of way. After this hard negotiation of traffic, people and excreta I finally manage to reach a pedestrian walkway which is beautiful and nice on the banks of the Powai lake. There are enough dustbins ...

I have been tracking the Amazon outage from April 21st and am happy to state though some key service providers have been affected the mood has been optimistic which is a relief for the future of computing in the cloud. Though Amazon has promised to give a post mortem report it has been a long Easter End for them to bring back their services to normal, and as I write this blog Amazon are still busy resurrecting their dead services. Easter is a good time to for  service providers of cloud computing to arise from their old practices and review  their IT Governance and  Fault Tolerant  Engineering. Most cloud vendors have their  IT compliance in place but what about the IT Governance to address  resilient services, the focus should be of Governing for 24x7x365 availability, they may want to map to the COBIT framework for the Cloud. The second area of Fault Tolerant Cloud Engineering, this is an area where larger investments will be needed especially by a compan...

@larrycincy Larry Carvalho #Cisco , #Oracle and #HP are behind #IBM and #Microsoft on #cloud messages - agree? 20 Apr via HootSuite Favorite Retweet Reply   Larry Carvalho's twitter question a few days ago got me thinking and here are my thoughts ! The BIG 5 is a popular term used in South Africa and I have picked a few points from Wiki source :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_game   The BIG 5 collection consists of the lion , the African elephant , the Cape Buffalo , the leopard and the rhinoceros . [ 2 ] The members of the big five were chosen for the difficulty in hunting them and the degree of danger involved, rather than their size. [ 1 ] [ 3 ]   The BIG 5 were not enough for this blog, so I have extended the species to include animals from other parts of the world to bring out the impact of M&A.   So let us map Larry's BIG five to the African BIG 5; which of the BIG 5 is the best? You can be the judge !   Lion  - MI...

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IT professionals are under pressure to deliver More from Less; the good old days of incremental technology budgets are over. Business today demands more value for their investments in IT and are reviewing IT expenditure through a magnifying glass. These are exceptional times and the Cloud may not provide all the answers, but it may be a good time for IT leaders to take time to understand Cloud Computing and approach the technology without any bias. The Cloud may be the proverbial last straw for many IT leaders before the Business kills them  by asphyxiation by severing budgetary support. Negotiations with vendors are tough and more then 70% of the IT budget go in  keeping the lights ON!Business continues to demand agility, innovation and excellence from the IT leaders with exceptional budget cuts and demand an OPEX budget. A radical  approach of innovation and excellence in IT Management may be the key to deliver more from less; The IT teams need to become Lean ...

The meeting is still fresh in my mind when with the support of my manager the late Mr. R.  Ravimohan I decided to leave a secure job in CRISIL and start the journey of a consultant.  Those early days were hectic, one had to select  a name for the new consulting venture;  next came registering the domain and putting together a website,  finding an office and also restructuring my investments to support the business. The first contract was from CRISIL thanks to Ravimohan. Other  customers trickled in slowly, there were times when there was no work and only proposals to write; and there were assignments where one had to roll up the sleeves and move into execution. At the end of the first decade I would like to say a Big thankyou to my wife and kids for their support in this long journey as an entrepreneur advisor; they have made enormous sacrificies to keep NISE going. There are also a few special people who have supported NISE over the years and  I would like to thank them;  Sudesh Puthr...

The Temenos Microsoft alliance to bring banking on cloud computing is commendable and the fact that 12 Mexican Banks have agreed to Migrate and work is in progress is heartening news for those who believe that the future of computing is the cloud. Microsoft has also signed with Misys to offer their banking solutions on the Microsoft cloud Azure. Some of the key development over the last few months are given below which I have taken from the Microsoft website. Temenos Announces the Availability of its T24 Core Banking System on the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Misys Announces Core Banking Solution to be Extended to the Cloud with the Windows Azure Platform BNP Paribas Envisages the Future of the Branch North Shore Credit Union boosts innovation and customer service with Temenos and Microsoft Source : http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/industry/financial-services/banking/default.aspx The cloud provides  a great opportunity of  banking software solution providers migrate the...

Last week I was in Bangalore at Electronic city and outside the venerable Infy campus and there was hardly any activity outside the campus, I remember the same Infy campus  entrance a few years ago which used to bustle like a fish market. At the airport as I moved up the escalator I saw this advertisement positioned in a way that one could not miss it , see the picture below Today the Infy results were out and the domino affect was not only Infy  stock prices but all IT stocks  which has brought gloom in the market. I remember this article written more then a year ago by Arun Mysore and I applaud him for getting it right. "Noted Indian offshore vendor Infosys released its annual results this week. In the last fiscal year 39% of its revenue came from application development and maintenance, 26% from consulting and package implementation, 7.2% from system integration and 7.2% from infrastructure management .  The key question before vendors like Infosys is wh...

I was in Bangalore/Bengalooru on Thursday morning, used my mobile camera to capture  photographs of the destruction of the lovely trees on the 100 feet road, Indiranagar. "A picture is worth a thousand words [slideshow]

                                                                                                                              A few months ago I shifted my domain hosting to sitecloud which met my criteria of going green and being on the cloud. Sitecloud   ( http://www.sitecloud.com/  ) is now merged with GreenGeeks ( http://greengeeks.com/ ). The service had its own proble...

This in continuation of another day in Bangalore - Bengalooru on Sunday, when i decided to take a morning walk on the magnificent 100 feet road in Indiranagar. When Indiranagar was carved out the 100 feet road was named because it was 100 feet wide and the measure was not yet the metric system, some legacies die-hard. Indiranagar was named after the then Prime Minister of India Ms. Indira Gandhi, and the 100 feet road as the main avenue and smaller dimensioned roads were 80 and 90 feet as subsidiary feeder avenues. We used to love the 100 feet road for the shade it provided when we cycled through Indiranagar, and later drove our mopeds and subsequently motorcycles when in college. The trees still survive and the shade it provides is really cool and the protection it provides during the rains is invaluable.  A new  development is that the 100 feet road is a commercial district now and has a number of fancy restaurants and also upmarket designer outlets. The old grand houses were broken ...

Drove down to Vellore from Bangalore and was rewarded with the lovely sunrise on the highway. Reached Vellore Institute of Technology  and was impressed by the guest house for that matter the whole campus  was green and beautiful. The photo below is the courtyard in the guest house of the Vellore Institute of Technology., The Seminar started at 10 a.m. in the Kamaraj Auditorium and everything worked like a breeze, there were more the 80 participants which included professors,research scholars and students from various colleges. Their interest in cloud computing was encouraging and no one left the room during the sessions, all mobiles were switched off and  it was a pleasure to share my knowledge with this wonderful crowd. Sharing  the  definition  cloud computing with the audience. The audience listened with rapt attention and there were many excellent queries raised by the participants. We closed the session at  3 p.m. with a tea break. I re...

Today I landed in Bangalore, today renamed as Bengalooru. The airport was laid back, there was a que for the bus, there was also a patient que until they opened the door to get out of the apron into the airport building. I realized my old Bangalore had not changed, it was still the laid back city, irrespective of the pressures of development. NO one was in a hurry , you could differentiate the locals from the outsiders by their speed of movement . The Volvo bus politely waited until it was 5 minutes after its scheduled time of departure to allow the last passenger with a cup of coffee to saunter into the bus. NO one seemed to mind! The Volvo bus has a governor these days so it takes it some time to reach town. The road was congested and narrow, the traffic was chaotic, but the city had not lost its charm. The weather was hot and awful once I got off the Volvo bus, here is where the old Bangalore charm of the garden city or air conditioned city was missing. The city is now dusty, crowde...