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Every year we ring in the new and ring out the old at New Year, with pomp and celebration. But let us pause to think ! We have lots to learn from what we have left behind. Some are tangible but many are intangible, taking stock of this will help us to focus on our future. We see people passing on, we make new friends, families expand and some contract, jobs are changed, we see ourselves different in the mirror based on our cycle of life. For a teenager it is coming out into the world and learning to be an adult, for twenty plus time to start life in a job and as a bread-winner,  for someone in their thirties it is time to  work harder to achieve their goals, for someone in their forties it is time to discover the first grey hair and wrinkles and for those above fifty time to plan their retirement or reminiscence on how the world has gone by despite them and those over sixty it is time to start the downhill ride out of this world living and savoring every day they live and those who are...

As we ring out 2012 which had its share of success and tribulation in cloud computing. We can ring in 2013 as the year Cloud Computing will  transform into an everyday utility like electricity. The Cloud will cease to be a novelty or a laboratory, it is for real and it has proved it can deliver reliably in 2012 despite the pessimists who  kept picking on every cloud disruption rather then seeing the totality of the benefits. 2013 will be the year when the cloud will be the utility that transform and drives the economy in a tough and recessionary year. There will be large cloud utilities formed by merger and acquisition of fragmented cloud server providers and we we will have companies like Microsoft, HP, Dell, IBM, Cisco, EMC  embracing the cloud for their survival and relevance in the technology landscape. More then 250 companies in the Fortune 500 can move to the cloud today based on their nature of their business and focus on growing ...

Big Data is the hottest technology for 2013, but there is a need for better understanding of Big Data and its outcome. Big Data is not about Cloud Computing though it uses the cloud as the computing engine. Big Data it is not a killer technology nor a killer app, rather it is a distilled version of the best apps and solutions to handle huge volumes of data bundled with awesome analytic and graphical tools, which churn out output faster then ever before from Big Data (measured in Terabytes and Petabytes). You need large quantum of clean and usable data to get a ROI and also effective and useful results working on Big Data,. The fist step is clean data, the second step is what we want to achieve by analyzing this clean data and for this we need a road map, at least we will have some idea of where to reach, though our destination may change in our journey as we sieve through the Big Data.. The right team will succeed with tenacity , knowledge and ability ...

As the year comes to a close, I remember the Cox Town Market at Bangalore and the memories of an era gone by and only the great New Year fair at Cox Town which still endures. My family moved into Hutchins Road, Cooke Town in 1965 and the local market was the Cox Town Market, if you did not get stuff here then you would go the big brother Russell Market and if you wanted more aggressive deals to the City Market. The shopkeepers spoke excellent English at Cox Town Market and though it was a small market it had almost everything you needed to run your home. The tall rain trees always kept the market cool and shady and I still remember there was a cycle stand outside the gates of the market. The opening and closing time was 9 a.m.  to 1 p.m., afternoon break and then 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.  on the dot and on Sunday’s  it would be closed; actually the huge metal gates would open and close at the given time like clockwork. The  best memories of the Cox town market is the New Year Fair, the market ...