Niranjan Hanasoge of Google India

Mr. Niranjan Hanasoge in his talk titled "Cloud Computing and Google Apps" will talk about Cloud Computing and how it is changing the face of computing as we know it. The talk will summarize over some of the technologies and applications, such as Google Apps, that has made this possible. Consumers have enthusiastically adopted it and there are clear benefits to businesses, but it is not without challenges – the talk will provide summary insights into some of these factors as well.

Biography: Niranjan Hanasoge has 15 years of experience in software development and Information Technology. After getting a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, he went to work for Infosys Technologies Ltd., developing software for clients in Switzerland. After leaving Infosys, he went to USA and worked in various software development and management roles. He returned to India in 2007 and is currently working at Google, Hyderabad, where he develops products for the Enterprise market. At Google, he was a key contributor to Google SMS Channels, a site that offers free texting in India.

He is the Vice Chair of the Hyderabad Chapter of IEEE Computer Society, and the Secretary and a founding member of the Hyderabad ACM Chapter.

Ramesh Loganathan of Progress Software India

Mr. Ramesh Loganathan in his talk titled "Dimensions of Virtualizations in the Cloud" will touch upon various aspects and attributes of virtualization, ranging from hardware, OS, application platforms, applications (SaaS), Soft resources (like users and services). The talk will conclude by discussing the need, abstractions, provisioning and application usage considerations.

Biography: Ramesh Loganathan is presently the Managing Director (and Vice President- Products), Progress Software India, responsible for leading product development at the India Development center, organized in a Centers of Excellence model with each center owning a suite of products in that competency. Ramesh is responsible for providing strategic guidance to all the product teams, scale the product operations, with specific focus on cross-product considerations for the SOA and Data integration products.

Prior to taking the above position, Ramesh was Vice President of Middleware Technologies at Pramati. Since 2000 Ramesh was heading Product Engineering at Pramati, then helped setup the team (for Progress Software) that built the Sonic Workbench on Eclipse, eventually transitioned to Progress Software- India. Returned to Pramati in 2006 to start the Technology consulting division offering high value consulting around middleware infrastructure, applications design and architecture, Web2.0 collaboration in the enterprises, SOA and emerging architectures such as Web Desktops’ based solutions.

Hold a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering (Control Systems) from Anna university, Guindy, India. Has over 17 years Systems engineering and R&D leadership experience in product development organizations. Including Sonic Software (Technical Director- India Dev Center), Pramati Technologies (VP, Engineering) and Informix (Principal Engineer).

An accomplished Technologist and evangelist regularly speaking at workshops and seminars in India. Recently co-authored a book on ‘SOA approach to Integration’, published by Packt Publishers- he wrote the chapters on SOA, POA and ESB. He is also Adjunct Faculty at IIIT-Hyderabad, teaching courses on middleware technologies and research/exploratory work in the area of distributed systems. Strong interests in student-entrepreneurship and e-governance.

Niranjan Hanasoge of Google India

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Ramesh Loganathan of Progress Software India

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