LS Filter Coffee

Today's program on cloud computing for Business at Bangalore was well received and was attended by Senior Business Leaders. Some of the keen observations was the lack of adoption of cloud computing by business in India because of poor internet connectivity in smaller cities and rural areas. There were live examples of challenges in getting reliable internet access and bandwidth and more needs to be done to fix this problem to make cloud computing adoption a reality. The second takeaway was the large  technology  cost to support transactions in Banking sector, almost about Rs. 50 a transaction was the estimated cost. Cloud could substantially lower this technology cost by banks adopting cloud computing. Some banks are there in a nascent stage and some Banks offer their application as a SAAS based core banking solutions in a virtualized environment which is marketed as a cloud. More needs to be done in this area and one solution was to build a dedicated and secure cloud environm...

There are strikes in Brazil, the Indian Rupee is shedding value faster than my weight gain, the world globally is grappling on how to keep recession at bay. The business climate is tough and Cloud Computing could be Superman for Business. When business want to cut costs they need tools to identify what they are doing, they need tighter monitoring and controls, they can find solutions for this in the various SAAS solutions available in the cloud. They just pay for what they use and get their business ship shape. Energy prices and managing data centers is expensive, cloud could offer a better and more cost effective solution. Reach for the Clouds when the Going it Tough Marketing budgets are tight, but without marketing how do you reach your customer, use the cloud computing social media tools to reach your customers. Sales people costs are high and customer support  is essential for survival use cloud hosted  sales and customer management tools. Logistics, distribution and trac...

Today's paper's headline states  "Hunt is on in Gujarat for a distant cousin who shares Prince William’s Indian blood-  Tests have established a direct link between the Duke of Cambridge and a woman believed to have been at least half Indian" A new social order Based on DNA mapping ? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hunt-is-on-in-gujarat-for-a-distant-cousin-who-shares-prince-williams-indian-blood-8658776.html Maybe this    DNA testing and matching may destroy the Blue Blood of Royalty in the world.  If all the DNA of all the worlds inhabitants are collected into one big data base and we use BIGDATA to find a relationship and sort people of the world based on their DNA then we will have a new classification of the human race, one based on science, rather then ethnicity, religion, color or nation, could this be the end of our social setting as we known and build over the centuries.  Could there be a new set of groups who come tog...

There are many great stories of Information Technology Business on the cloud who have made millions of dollars with a great idea, these are companies who have built solutions on the cloud and benefited by a low cost  launch of their business and almost no entry barrier to succeed in their vision for changing the world with cloud computing. This article is for another type of Business, those  who can use computing as a business enabler and benefit with automation from conceptualization to execution to sustenance of their start-up business whatever it may be. Let us consider start-up business in the non technology traditional economy, simple businesses like engineering fabrication, distribution, cash collection, retailing, food and beverages, and any other start-up whose leadership has an idea and the entrepreneurial zeal. What cloud computing solutions can Business use for their business efficiency? today many Business start their computing journey on the internet with a static...

The rains have hit the city of Mumbai with a vengeance and coupled with high tides we have large tracts of water instead of roads. I remember taking the hovercraft from Gateway of India to Vashi many years ago, it was a memorable experience for my colleague from Ford Michigan. I plan to exchange my car for an hovercraft, it could be the quickest way to beat the rains in Mumbai, the potholed roads after the rains and also the traffic if you use the Mithi river and the sea for navigation.  Here is an youtube video of the hovercraft experience  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqI-8ISs66U Here are some of the hovercrafts which one can buy if you have the money, I also need to figure out if there is a licence required to sail through Mumbai's waterlogged roads in an Hovercraft. But anyway here are some of the sites, my favorite is  http://www.hammacher.com/Product/10963 But you can also check these sites  http://www.toxel.com/tech/2009/10/28/air-board-personal-hovercraft/ http://www.rene...

As one trundles in the journey called LIFE, the first contact we have is with our Family.     Our Parents, sibling, aunts, uncles they all form a protective ring around us a kids and we pick up many of our traits from the family in which we are born. Subsequently when one is an adult there comes an extended family when one gets married and later when one's siblings get married.  Family is something we inherit and have no opportunity to choose, though the extended family we may have some say. Our family is the most important and is like an anchor in our life, something we may turn away from but one cannot shake out of one's life. In many continent like Asia, Europe, Latin America family ties are paramount and treasured. Family is the like the roots of the tree, no wonder Alex Haley a few decades ago named his book Roots.  Friends are people whom we choose because we have something in common, friends come into our life at various points of time, at school, at college, at work, a...

We all carry our baggage of failures, bitter memories, and more from our past which is  like carrying a heavy bag as we trod along with the adventure called life. We all know the lighter the baggage easier it is travel,  the old adage goes "Less Luggage More Comfort". Then what motivates us to carry this baggage of life with us, which we know will hamper our progress and inhibit the joy and happiness we are entitled to you. Maybe it is time to drop your baggage of life and go forth light and with a free mind and with no worry of the past and into a vision of a glorious, joyful future in your life. Start today by slowly emptying your baggage of life by forgiving those against whom you harbor grudge and anything else that adds weight to your  baggage of life. You will soon feel the difference and transform into a much better human being and will also have a more rewarding and satisfying life !

Many Enterprises start with virtualization in their data center and then scale their data centers into a private cloud and then maybe migrate to a hybrid cloud by integrating with the public cloud. This approach could be flawed though it may give comfort the CTO/CIO of the organization,  because  it may be a risky route to test cloud computing. Virtualization management needs good skilled personnel more so when the virtualized servers run into a problem, these resources are a challenge to find and even if found difficult to retain . Secondly building private clouds may not be economical and is time consuming to get it resilient and reliable. Most private enterprise clouds do not have a self service model build in their deployment, rather it goes through the IT department again, which means there is no agility and ease of deployment of services for an end user. A Private Cloud May turn out to be like the boat in the Well! A better route for an enterprise is to start using the p...