[Legacy Report] IEEECS: “Cloud Computing: What’s next?”

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Avishkar – An innovation centric virtual group at Oracle & IEEE Computer Society Chapter - Hyderabad Section with support from Oracle India takes great pleasure in inviting you to a talk in the area of Cloud Computing by Mr. Ramesh Loganathan, VP Products & Managing Director, Progress Software India. Please find the flyer for this program attached as a PDF.

Registration
Though the event is open, online registration is required. Please register from http://bit.ly/j4pqMm on or before 29th June 2011 (6 PM IST), please note that we have limited seats and request you to register yourself at the earliest.

Agenda
05:30 PM - 06:00 PM: Registration, Tea & Networking
06:00 PM - 06:50 PM: “Cloud Computing: What’s Next?” by Mr. Ramesh Loganathan, MD & Vice President, Progress Software
06:50 PM - 07:05 PM: Q&A

Abstract
Cloud computing is now actively in mainstream adoption, with most of the dust setting down. Software vendors, service providers and end-enterprises have all begun to get a good feel for what exactly is cloud. What’s new & what’s not so new. The new value system enabled by the cloud is now widely understood. From the disruptive *aaS models of software distribution and licensing to the elastic computing platforms now made easily available to one and all. While SaaS & IaaS are actively embraced by the enterprises with help from ISVs/Sis, the home-grown enterprise solutions are still behind the curve. This will be the next wave that starts using cloud even as the solutions are being built. Also just beginning is the new class of solutions that leverage the distributed and homogeneous nature of the IT solutions landscape now, with solutions on the web or intranet all easily accessible from web browsers and programmatically through web-services. This talk will reflect upon the present state of the cloud-computing space and some trends to expect in coming months and years.

About the speaker
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.

Ramesh holds 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.

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