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Very recently I started blogging wanted to share my own experience to make my self better and better

Thursday, October 28, 2010

?? Cloud Computing ??

It has been a buzz now almost everywhere about cloud computing in technical world so thought about writing some explanation on cloud computing in layman language.

Cloud computing for me is about sharing resources, software,information to others. It can be infrastructure, platform OR software as a service.

Cloud can belong to private OR public. I think one of the most important aspect of cloud computing is scalability where It can accommodate more number of users without degrading performance. For me my blog is just like a cloud which is running on public space.

Now If I want to make some one understands about cloud computing who is not into technical world how do I do that? Let me do some rumination around my childhood days in which I used to watch movies on VCR(Video Cassette Recorder) and VCP(Video Cassette Player).

Just sharing couple of incidents going around in my childhood :

I still remember days where my parents used to rent a VCR Player from Video Library and we used to watch movies for some hrs.All the infrastructure has been provided by Video Library and we just need to pay rent for VCR and Video Cassette on hourly basis for me this is class example of Infrastructure as a service running on public space.

Then We had days where we had VCR at home we just used to rent video cassettes from video library. This is just classic example of software as a service where VCR was installed in private space and services has been taken from video library.

Now let’s get into modern days where we all are having DTH(Disk To Home) all the necessary infrastructure pertaining to DTH such as set top box,Antenas and required necessary stuff has been installed at home which can give us classic user experience about digital TVs. For me this has been categorized into platform as a service again one type of cloud computing which is running on private space.


Now let me give u some real-time example of cloud computing which are as follows :

  • Platform-as-a Service like GoogleApps (set of applications which are part of our day2day life).
  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service like Amazon Web Services provides virtual server instances with unique IP addresses and blocks of storage on demand. Customers use the provider's application program interface (API) to start, stop, access and configure their virtual servers and storage.
  • Software-as-a-Service can be anything from web based mail to database processing. Google mail OR google docs can be classic example of SaaS.

I think cloud could be useful in developer community where we all take an ache of setting up development environment for project and goes through all pain..Can't we have one cloud among developer community ?

Well researched on Internet again and found couple of links which are as follows :


Just imagine Technical guy wants to learn new technology, he can log into cloud(Learning based cloud) pays something for it If require and can do hands on in the cloud without worrying much about installation, configuration and infrastructure. This will be classic application of cloud computing If it happens.


PS: I am not an expert in this area but this is what I have learned.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Leisure time with Family


I have been waiting for this but did not get much time and decided to have a vacation in month of October.It was now about deciding place where to go couple of places I had it in my mind either South India OR Beaches (Goa and Andaman Nicobar Island).October started with heat over here in Mumbai, temperature is touching around 35 c so did want to take chance for trip around beaches.Well I think October is hottest month since last 30 years.So decided to go for south India ,now choices has been narrow down to either Kerala OR Banglore . Finally decision made and decided to go for places around Banglore .I have decided to have trip for 7 nights 8 days and places were Mysore,Ooty,Kodaikanal and Banglore.
So now as I have decided places for vacation now how do I plan my journey should I buy package for my entire trip OR I planned my self...I and my wife decided to have planned entire trip on our own.so what do I need to do ?
  • Flight tickets
  • Rent a car
  • Booking of hotels in each city
  • Places to visit
Now booking of flight tickets I decided to find out various option from couple of airlines and I went with Indigo airlines It was quite cheap :-)..I started looking for car rental companies in Banglore and went with company called SLS Car Rental.Booking of hotels again done with the help of Internet which is as follows :
  • Mysore :: Peridot INN 2 Nights
  • Ooty :: Sunshine Inn 2 Nights
  • KodaiKanal :: Hotel Grand Palace 2 nights
  • Banglore :: Hotel Grand Residency 1 night
About places I have taken all the information from Internet .

So now It looks like I am all set for my vacation ...My vacation will start from 10th October and ends at 17th October.I have kept my budget 50K let us see If I can make it with in that.