Cloud Computing in Detail
Cloud computing is heralded as the next big thing in enterprise IT. While corporate data centers and on-premise software are not going away
anytime soon, “the clouds” will likely have a growing impact on
enterprise IT and business activities in many large organizations. CIOs
and other business leaders must look beyond the hype to see what
opportunities and challenges lie in the cloud—and how this approach can
be used to further the organization’s strategy to achieve high
performance.
Cloud computing is a classic disruptive Cloud computing is a classic disruptive technology. As such, it has its origin in the
fringe of the IT market, i.e., the small and medium-sized enterprise
(SME) and consumers, whose need for simpler and lower-cost or even free
solutions is underserved by traditional packaged software. As
cloud-based services matured, they started to win broader acceptance
from mainstream enterprise customers. Now, they compete directly with
on-premise and packaged software. The significance of the cloud,
however, lies far beyond cheap computing. The Web-enabled, variable
cost model represents a huge departure from existing practice, and
carries far-reaching implications for IT providers and users alike. A
new wave of venture-funded startups are likely to appear, offering an
array of innovative solutions ranging from niche applications to cloud
middleware and infrastructure services. The emergence of cloud
platforms will significantly ease the entry barrier for such small
players to develop, deploy, scale and integrate their services. The
battle between pure Internet players like Google, Amazon and Salesforce
and traditional enterprise vendors has just begun. Incumbents such as
SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft have been investing aggressively to extend
their on-premise capabilities into the cloud. For example, Microsoft
has launched online services to offer its software in the cloud. It is
also investing billions in datacenters to help confirm quality and
availability. Microsoft has developed a Software + Services hybrid
model to offer its customers a choice between on-premise,
partner-managed or Microsoft hosted solutions.
This event presents and discusses one of the key challenges of cloud computing, which is defining successful business
models and architectures for value creation in the enterprise. At this
nascent stage both SMEs and large enterprises are just beginning to
adopt cloud technologies, as CIOs and IT managers learn about how they
can deploy the cloud in their organizations it will create business
opportunities for startups and entrenched players to develop business
models that are successful in serving their customers as well leading
to the success of their own companies. The panel will be composed of
successful venture investors from the Indian venture capital industry
as well as founders of cloud startups and technology professionals from
companies in India that are competing in this space to win customers.
List of Speakers
Suresh Sambandam
Founder & CEO, OrangeScape Platform as a Service
Suresh is the Founder & CEO of OrangeScape. OrangeScape is a pioneer in platform as a service (PaaS) and is the only Indian company
listed in research reports of Gartner and Forrester on PaaS.
OrangeScape's patent pending rule engine based PaaS platform enables
entrepreneurs to build scalable SaaS based business applications
easily. OrangeScape was showcased as one of the 3 emerging product
companies in India by Nasscom and was also awarded 'Top IT Innovations'
for 2 consecutive years. OrangeScape's technology is being used by
Global brands like Citigroup, Pfizer, Unilever, AstraZeneca, Fullerton
and 40 others.
After an initial entrepreneurial stint of 3 Yrs at the age of 19, he went on to work at Hewlett-Packard. Later, Suresh joined
Selectica and rose to senior position, as Director of e-Insurance
product division in a short-span. The e-Insurance division and its
products were later acquired by Accenture. Suresh is a technocrat
specializing in product engineering with expertise in software
architecture for complex enterprise applications, inference engines,
configuration engines, rule-based computing and enterprise middleware.
He has applied for multiple patents. Suresh is passionate about
entrepreneurship, technology startups and spends a significant amount
of personal time in the start-up ecosystem in Chennai. He is a member
of the National Council for Emerging Companies Forum and also a core
committee member of Product Forum at NASSCOM also does mentoring for
budding entrepreneurs at IIT Bombay and E-Cell. Suresh is a regular
speaker at various industry forums & academic institutions.
Rajdeep Dua
Developer Advocate, Google India
Rajdeep is a Developer Advocate with the Google Developer Relations team. His main area of concentration are advocacy and developer
outreach of Google App Engine, Maps APIs and Android platform. He also
has worked on Social Web advocacy in last three years.
He has around 12 years of experience in middleware, web services and
integration space. He is passionate about helping developers understand
and use Google Developer Products to solve business problems. Before
joining Google, he was leading development efforts for Connected
Services Framework in Microsoft India. He has also been associated with
JBoss JMS open source development in the past. Rajdeep holds an MBA
from IIM Lucknow, India.
Raghavan Subramanian
Associate Vice President, Infosys
Raghavan has over 15 years of work experience in areas such as cloud-computing, Social-media, Internet application security,
eCommerce, EAI, business-IT strategy and telecom.
Raghavan holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics &
Communication Engineering from the Bharathidasan University, Tamilnadu,
India.
Raghavan heads the cloud computing and J2EE centers of
excellence.He is responsible for Infosys service offerings, building
competencies, creating adoption accelerators and establishing Infosys
thought leadership in this space.
He was earlier the product manager for the Infosys Social Media
platform, a SaaS offering. In this role he was responsible for the
creation of several web 2.0 modules like video-uploads, blogs, online
communities, forums, social analytics and integrating them in a
holistic manner.
Prior to this he was program-manager of a consortium of technology
companies that came together to build an online-collaboration portal
for a famous think-tank organization to connect the leaders of the
world. He headed the technology consulting group of EMEA. He has
reviewed/defined the IT strategy of telecom-service-providers, banks
and retail organizations in the US, Europe and Australia.
He was earlier with SETLabs leading the information-security, EAI,
BPM and OOAD research teams. He has published several papers,
co-authored 2 patents and has been an invited speaker in multiple
forums
Janakiram MSV
Technical Architect, Microsoft Corporation
Janakiram MSV works with Microsoft Corporation as the Technical Architect. He is responsible for helping the enterprises migrate to the
Cloud. He has been with Microsoft Corporation for 10 years where he was
primarily selling, marketing and evangelizing the Microsoft Application
Platform and Tools to customers and partners in India. He is a renowned
technologist and regularly speaks at premier events like Microsoft
TechEd, Microsoft Developer Days, Great Indian Developer Summit, JAX
India, Borland DevCon and Foss.in. He is an active contributor to the
Bangalore .NET User Group (B.NET). He is passionate about Cloud
Computing and he is currently focused on Microsoft Cloud Computing
offerings including Microsoft Windows Azure Platform. Janakiram's blog
can be found at http://www.janakiramm.net
For more information regarding the program content and to register you can contact:
Chitra V. Ramani
Executive Producer
Email: chitra.ramani@ibfmedia.com
Phone: +91 98 4835 0715
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