The classification of cloud providers continues to expand. Gartner and InfoWorld (amongst others) have created diagrams trying to explain the different categories of Cloud providers and services. My view below encompasses both their views as well as tries to rationalize the categories in a slightly different way than those papers. Read Full Story

I got my US citizenship yesterday. I must say this was the least painful immigration process that I have been through in the last 13 years of being in the US. 1. Started with a Student Visa in 1996 2. EAD in 1999 3. H1-B in 2000 4. Green card application in 2002 and subsequent EAD’s till 2004 5. Green card in 2004 6. US Citizenship in 2009 I applied on 5/11, a day after I crossed the 5 year mark on the green card. Within 3 weeks, I was called for the fingerprinting. Another 5 weeks lat... Read Full Story

I am reading way too many articles and blogs really dinging Google for its Gmail outage today. Don’t get me wrong – I was as impacted by this as anybody else – I use Gmail and Google Accounts for personal as well as multiple businesses. Read Full Story

I recently saw these presentations on Social Media and wanted to share it… Enjoy. It is interesting to compare this to the second presentation along the same lines done 1 year later… What The F**K is Social Media? View more documents from Marta Kagan. What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later View more documents from Marta Kagan. Read Full Story

I am partnering with Bodhtree Consulting, a boutique consulting form from Hyderabad, India to build a SaaS and Cloud Computing center of excellence. Here is a recent press release announcing this partnership. CIOL Silicon India India PRwire Read Full Story

Neeta is starting her flight lessons; welcome to the world of being a student pilot…. She has about 8 hours now, and today she did a phenomenal take-off from Hawthorne. She is within private pilot limits on slow flight, power-on stalls and power-off stalls (dirty configuration). Today, she was also doing both the stalls with a shallow 20 degree bank. Not bad!!! Her rudder control is not perfect.. but oh well ! She is just in her first week of training. What do u expect! Read Full Story

See this interesting blog posting about the value of a Consulting CTO. Consulting CTO’s can help you out on a short term basis; generally for small amounts of equity. Depending on the type and amount of work; you will end up giving 25,000-100,000 stock options (where you have 10 million outstanding @ .01 – .10 cents). [...] Read Full Story

My first iPhone application finally went live. Bodhtree Consulting and Bob Alonzi were my partners in crime. See the application on ITunes at itms://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=315331924&mt=8&s=143441 iPhone Stretching Application Read Full Story

The topic of my talk, titled “Using Identity Virtualization to Mitigate Risk at Sony Pictures Entertainment”, covered a recent project I did at Sony Pictures, to implement the Radiant Logic Virtual Directory. Simeio Solutions provided consulting services for my project. Read Full Story

11Jul Cloud Computing As part of Enterprise IT, you might have been asked this questions a few times now – “Should we be using a Cloud as part of our data center strategy?” In order to answer this questions, here is some food for thought… What do you expect the benefits to be? Data Center Agility – managing unpredictable demand Economic – Capex to Opex, overall cost saving Simplicity – Less headache; managing a data center is not your core competency Define the scope of this effort ... Read Full Story