Cognizant Minds

Surprised to see the Logo of Netflix in Sepia ? Don’t be. Thats just my representation of how it might be in 5 years. Simply “RIP”. On a serious note, what is very important for us to understand is –  how the company evolved. When Netflix came was on a rise  it created stir with the following WOW factor 1. Renting by mail – Extremely strong logistic. (Novel Idea) [...]

In the enterprise IT scenario, if your firm is not involved in at least 5 proof of concept on the “yellow elephant”, then probably you have a lot to worry and catch up. While organizations are putting their money on Hadoop flavours from different providers, the philosophy behind implementation is various. In this situation a quick 101 to determine when even to consider the big data [...]

Looking back in time, one can observe always that a great product or a great concept has a lifeline of its own. Ideas/Products which are oriented to touch people have a longer shelf period than the rest. Android based phones are not the only devices which area build on top of Android platform. Now there are cell phones, TVs, music players, cars, security system, cameras [...]

On a not so lazy afternoon, I bumped in to the terminology “Big Data” once again. This time due to official reasons where we need to formulate the strategy for our big data venture. While I have been exposed to the concept from early last year, for last 2 months, everyone is talking about it vehemently. There are clear trends related to acquisitions and product [...]

Often it’s noticed that the technology graduation happens in such a seamless way that it’s difficult to draw a line between the generation. Cloud computing, which evolved from various concepts like optimization, virtualization and utility computing etc, is bit difficult to explain. However it’s easier to assign attribute the features to it which adds up to the success criteria. Does it mean that all framework [...]

Now a days everyone is talking about cloud computing. While most of the enterprise try to do it as someone else is doing it, there are a few who pursue this as the extension of their virtulization effort. Cloud computing in most of the enterprise has resulted from the need of improvement of utilization of the infrastructure and need to reduce the  total cost of [...]

I still remember that sunny morning, almost a month back, when I got the intimation about my participation required in an event in Trinidad and Tobago. The event was called upon by CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) to showcase India´s rising business capabilities to the community in Trinidad and Tobago. Even after having worked in Latin America for more than 4 years now, the Caribbean [...]

The biggest thing in the innovation process is to realize the problem. It’s never the solution that matters. As the most difficult thing is to realize the problem or even to admit that it’s a problem. For example – I am a moderately flying professional working in a multi-national company. I would definitely have a trip in a week for business. I had never felt [...]

March 11th it was and i took my wife for shopping to Concord Mills. Normally i am a reluctant window shopper. Hardly did she believe that i was proposing this to her. But little did she know my alter-motive. Well concord Mills also has a best buy and what a coincidence it was the launch of apple iPAD 2.0. LOL. To cut the long story [...]

I have been blogging for sometime and believe me the comments that i get from you, excluding the spammers far east, are so thoughtful that these comments can easily be blogs themselves. The other day i got a comment for verticalization of service from Kiran Chitrada, made me realized that it would be worthwhile to capture the thoughts not in bits but in its entirety. I [...]