Who Am I?

I'm a BBM (Bachelor of Business Management) graduate from Bangalore University. I passed the same in the 1999-2000 batch from one of the prestigious college in Bangalore.

I'm a Bangalorean by birth and love this city than any other cities I've visited.

I'm currently working in one of the top Indian software companies. I've worked in various companies and in various positions. I currently work as a Senior Software Engineer.

I'm also a Microsoft Certified Professional.

You can view my LinkedIn profile here.

Cloud Computing

What is cloud computing? Everyone in the technology world is talking about it.

Cloud Computing is an emerging computing technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud Computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth. Cloud Computing is broken down into three segments: “applications,” “platforms,” and “infrastructure.” The main advantage is the elasticity of the cloud and its ease of delivery.

In general, Cloud Computing customers do not own the physical infrastructure; instead, avoid capital expenditure by renting usage from a third-party provider. They consume resources as a service and pay only for resources that they use. Many Cloud Computing offerings employ the utility computing model, which is analogous to how traditional utility services (such as electricity) are consumed, whereas others bill on a subscription basis.

There’s a good chance you’ve already used some form of Cloud Computing. If you have an e-mail account with a Web-based e-mail service like Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail or Gmail, then you’ve had some experience with Cloud Computing. Instead of running an e-mail program on your computer, you log in to a Web e-mail account remotely. The software and storage for your account doesn’t exist on your computer — it’s on the service’s computer cloud. If you host an application that has seasonal peaks, then ramping up your servers to handle this short peak load may be difficult, A Cloud on the other hand lets you manage and increase or decrease the resources allocated to your application, within a very short period of time.

With Amazon’s EC2, Google’s AppEngine, and now Microsoft’s Azure, Cloud Computing looks more like a very real architecture that your data center has a good chance of being connected to in the near future.

Perhaps the biggest concerns about cloud computing are security and privacy. The idea of handing over important data to another company worries some people. Corporate executives might hesitate to take advantage of a Cloud Computing system because they can’t keep their company’s information under lock and key.

Hi All,
I'm just getting busier and busier day by day. Lot of work at office and the expectations are too much. I'm coping up with such pressure only because of a slowdown. There are no openings going-on currently. Hence, no chance of changing jobs.

Keep posting your views and thoughts.

Thanks,
Manjunath HK

Start of blogging

Hi All,

Just wanted to test whether a blog can be created or not. Infact, I saw that it works. You can converse with me using this blog.

Regards,

Manjunath HK