CloudBus

I met my good friend this evening who has become a  cloud computing fanatic in a very short period. For someone who had a dim view of cloud computing this sudden transformation came as a surprise. I asked him what  brought about this change ! The answer was simple he started using the Cloud extensively for his work and even started signing up with various cloud service vendors to understand their service levels and benefits and Eureka he was converted to the cloud. Today he understands the benefits  of the cloud and he does More with Less for his projects which needs him to deliver significant computing provisioning  at short notice for his clients. He achieves this and  saves money by using the cloud with the help of his credit card.. He was keen to share with me what he has learnt on his cloud surfing adventure and I look forward to share his experiences in this blog sometime in the future. My advice to the readers of my blog is start Using ...

When the world decides to Bank on Digital Money we will Go Green and change the way we handle Money! Will Banks change to Digtial money, in the last five decades I have see the face of Banking change globally and Digital Money will also be the future of Banking. My first experience with Banks was when I  operated a Children's Saving Account with a Bank in Bangalore. I could not  see the bank employees face at the teller for many years, I was too short to reach the window. But my father persisted that I learn how to Bank and he taught me to get my bank statement (held in little note book called a passbook) manually updated from huge paper based ledgers. The bank used to  give me a nice metal token when I had to withdraw money, the process of getting your money from your Bank those days did take a while, so I always carried a  book with me. Most of this remains true even today for traditional brick and mortar banking in India....

The connection between Apple Computers and Dalai Lama seem to be an outlier. Apple is in the forefront of the Cloud Computing Revolution in the Valley while His Holiness The Dalai Lama preaches peace to  humanity from the valleys of Dharmashala and Bylakuppe in India. The risk for Apple is its products  are made in China and if the Chinese shut down its supply then there will be no Apple devices for the world to use. Last week President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama and the Chinese have not appreciated this meeting with the Tibetan Spiritual leader in exile. Photo: Courtesy Coloribus http://www.coloribus.com/adsarchive/prints/apple-dalai-lama-1143705/ Given its economic might, China  may stop all shipment of Apple equipment to the world, this will put an end to Apple's supremacy. Compare this to Android which already has a significant market share and is licenced  by Google, the Android operating systems is licenced to a number of hands...

The fortunes of the glorious mobile telephony and  messaging companies RIM the makers of  Black Berry (BB) and Nokia the other awesome company are suddenly losing market share and their bottom lines are hurting. The new stars are Apple and Samsung, what a difference in about two years, the tablet has come to rule and the handheld mobile is also used for telephony and messaging. The hand held device is today's replacement for the laptop and heralds the end of tired shoulders and still better laptop burns on where the laptop normally rests. This is truly the demise of messaging and the advent of computing, with the three pieces the cloud computing service provider, the telco who provides the bandwidth and the endpoint device provided by Apple, Samsung and few others who are ready to ride this change into the world of tablets. The world is changing and what has this to do with the cloud, the power of these tablets are derived from applications from the cloud, the Facebook, Li...

Sony has been in the news this quarter for compromise in its online security and customer data. Is Sony a Japanese company and a true Samurai Warrior under attack and is cybersecurity its Achilles Heel. Sony has build such a formidable brand globally that it is associated with the best experience in multimedia. Yes Apple is the leader today, but Sony has a large global presence . Of course Samsung is another strong contender. This is the season to plan the product launches for the thanksgiving weekend in the North American Market which is followed by Christmas shopping. Sony seems to be focusing more time on damage control then its new game launches for the 2011 last quarter which is its biggest revenue spinner. Sony Attack maybe  Corporate warfare by its global business rivals, Japan as a country is weakened after the devastating earthquake and nuclear disaster and also a weak Government. Japanese business has always worked with the benign guidance of the go...

As many  countries grapple with cybersecurity laws they are making stringent laws which will prove to be a barrier to cloud computing. Also the largest provider of cloud services is the USA which plans to make foreign Internet access into that country more stringent given the number of recent cyber attacks. The US government may classify Major cyber attacks as war .see the link below http://governancenow.com/gov-next/egov/us-may-classify-major-cyber-attacks-acts-war . These developments do not harbor well for many countries who would benefit from cloud computing. The cost of monitoring and regulating traffic on the Internet highways will be a challenge in the future given the exponential growth of devices powered by wireless services. Add to this stringent laws that may be passed by countries which  prevent use of social networking sites like facebook and twitter or for that matter google. Well there will be country specific and regional clouds which will still be laun...

There does not go a day without an announcement of a new device in the marketplace which will connect us to the cloud. The most important drivers of cloud computing are the economical and easy to acquire endpoint devices PDA's,cellphones, smartphones, Tablets PC's, slates and Solar notebooks. This are the real messengers of cloud computing, they are the devices which allow people to exploit the benefits of the cloud be it in a social or business context. These are the tools that we can use to enlightent the world ! No longer do you wait to go home to upload your video of your holidays, they are uploaded real time thanks to these devices. And you may have millions of people all over the world sharing your experiences and learning with you. Imagine what it can do for education, it can allow us to take the Khan academy http://www.khanacademy.org/   or similar great organizations to millions of knowledge seeking inhabitants of our world. Imagine delivering the Khan videos...