Cognizant Minds

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 [...]

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 [...]

Thomas Friedman said the world is flat, Well the same is not true about the technology trending. In the early 2000s, all of us, the proud preachers of software or service solution wizards were happy glorifying the value of shared service. Shared service which essentially means “commoditi-zation” of function, assumes the following idealistic events to occur. 1. Slicing and dicing the specialty to task level [...]

Generation of computing saw a lot to shift in trends of application, internet, and end user behaviour. The users are progressing toward a world of “internet as a Shadow of self”. Recently i went to atlanta on a business trip and on the way stopped by a Tanger Outlet to kill some time. As its was a first time entry there, i was not too [...]