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Friday, May 13, 2011

Cloud Developer Conference-May-14,Bangalore

Cloud Developer Conference

The future lies in the Cloud. Set your foothold in the Cloud today.Right now, top-flight developers are innovating at the leading edge of cloud computing using powerful platforms, APIs, and services that you may not even know exist.

That’s because the next generation of cloud development is being invented fast and furiously by a slew of companies, big and small, delivering key technologies ranging from tiny but key single-purpose services to large and powerful platforms in the cloud.

This Conference brings together leading cloud technology companies and the developer community to exchange notes in an open and friendly forum.
We are lining up some of the best speakers and the sessions & networking will be of the highest order. You'll experience a complete technical immersion, shared with a developer community that is passionate about all exciting developments in the Cloud world.

Venue
Nimhans Convention Centre
Near Diary Circle
Bangalore - 560029

Contact
SiliconIndia
No. 124, 2nd floor,
Surya Chambers,
South Block Airport Main Road,
Murugeshpalya
Bangalore-560017. Tel: +080 43112120
Email: events@siliconindia.com

Track- 1:

9.00 AM to 9.45 AM: Session 1
Collaboration in the Cloud
The next era of IT ecosystem in which the networked cloud transforms the way we live, work, play and learn has arrived. Having a comprehensive cloud strategy, along with the collaboration tools available on the cloud is key to improved operating efficiency with globalized and mobile work force. “Any device, any service, anywhere” is the way forward!
Speaker
Dr. Vivek Mansingh, President- Collaboration & Communications Group, Cisco India

9.45 AM to 10.30 AM: Session 2
Building Powerful Web Applications in the AWS Cloud
This presentation will provide you with an introduction to the Amazon Web Services from a business and technical perspective. You will learn how AWS can be used to build robust, cost-effective, secure, and high-scalable applications. Learn how to build a Simple LAMP-based web application in the AWS cloud and then apply all the attributes and latest features of the cloud to turn it into an Auto-scalable, highly available, highly scalable, fully-monitored edge-cached application that is not only easier to develop but also easier to maintain.
Speaker
Janakiram MSV, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

10.30 AM to 11.15 AM: Session 3
Cloud Bursting for Fun and Profit
Own the base, rent the spike. Cloud bursting helps to control costs and increase efficiency. Cost benefit analysis shows that an external cloud at 4x the cost of the internal cloud still yields economic benefits in dealing with the spikes. If the cost of the cloud is half of the internal cloud then it makes no sense to run anything internally. Lower the investment in infrastructure to focus on the business intelligence. A case study on eBay and Cloud bursting.
Speaker
Rajesh Ramachandran, GM - Head, eBay India

11.15 AM to 11.45 AM: Morning Break
A chance to meet up with your friends and have a cup of coffee!

11.45 AM to 12.30 PM: Session 4
Application Platform -Spring / v Fabric
Speaker
Sudharshini HS, Senior Systems Engineer, VMware India

12.30 PM to 1.15 PM: Session 5
Integrated financial applications using Intuit’s PaaS Solution
Want to build a cloud-based application that consumes financial data without worrying about billing, authentication etc.? Come and learn how to do this using Intuit Partner Platform (IPP). Intuit Partner Platform (ipp.intuit.com) is Intuit’s PaaS solution that targets the Small Business Owners community. It provides the fastest and easiest way to build hosted apps that integrate well with Small Business data and helps developers sell these apps to millions of small business customers. In this talk, you can hear about how Intuit is able to create an App Store with applications that provide SSO and expose data in a canonical form.
Speaker
George Chiramattel, Software Architect, Intuit

1.15 PM to 2.00 PM: Lunch
Break for lunch on the house and a chance to catch up with each other!

2.00 PM to 2.45 PM: Session 6
Building developing on Windows Azure Application
In order to take full advantage of Windows Azure and SQL Azure, you need to know more than just how to write the code. You need to know how to incorporate your application in a team environment, deploy, monitor, manage and retrieve diagnostic information back from the cloud. In this session, you will learn everything you need to know to be successful with a project that utilizes Windows Azure and SQL Azure including setting up your development environment, automating build, unit test and deployments to different deployment environments from staging to production, and managing credentials and user roles using the Windows Azure Portal.
Speaker
Saranya Sriram, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft India

2.45 PM to 3.30 PM: Session 7
The Yahoo Cloud: Challenges in deploying multi-tier applications on the cloud
This talk will cover an overview of the Yahoo cloud and the goals of why we need cloud. We will see some of the unique challenges that come with the kind of scale that Yahoo throws. We will segue into looking into the unique challenges of deploying a multi tier web app in the cloud. We will talk about the Yahoo approach to solving these challenges
Speaker
Binu Raj, Senior Director - Engineering, Cloud Computing, Yahoo!

3.30 PM to 4.00 PM: Afternoon Break
Some time out for you to grab another coffee and a well earned rest.

4.00 PM to 4.45 PM: Session 8
Realtime BI in the Cloud
As cloud adoption gets main stream, enterprise IT solutions are spread across the intrranet and the extended extranet leveraging web based infrastructure/platforms and SaaS solutions. IN this very heterogenous and distributed solution landscape, business intelligence offers some opportunities and challenges. This session will deliberate on some of the opportunities now possible for realtime business intelligence, visibility and control in the cloud.
Speaker
Ramesh Loganathan, VP Products & Center Head, Progress Software

4.45 PM to 5.30 PM: Session 9
Cloud Computing for Business
Enterprises have diverse landscape of computing environments and multiple data centers. Federated Cloud Computing provides a structure that enables enterprises to utilize different cloud environments and internal resources according to their business needs for a seamless computing experience. This session will provide insights into this seamless experience through the cloud journey of evolution of the architecture and its business alignment that will finally lead the audience to Cloud Mediation Services, which will be THE FOCUS in the Cloud, moving ahead.
Speaker
Bharati Lele, Head - Innovation Labs, L&T Infotech

Track - 2:

9.00 AM to 9.45 AM: Session 1
Cloud security desiderata and user centric identity management for cloud systems
Speaker
Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Head- Software Engineering Research lab, SETLabs- Infosys

9.45 AM to 10.30 AM: Session 2
Deploying and Managing an On-premise IaaS Cloud
This session will discuss the tools and techniques to help you deploy and manage your own enterprise-ready on-premise IaaS cloud. We will start by defining the features and deployment models that define an on-premise or private cloud, followed by an overview of the main components and architectures of a private cloud. Additionally, we will provide a look at an enterprise-grade IaaS cloud. We will conclude with overview of two popular on-premise cloud use cases: dev/test and scalable Web applications.
Speaker
Vishal Mathur, Global Solutions Architect-Strategic SI Development, Citrix Systems Inc

10.30 AM to 11.15 AM: Session 3
Architecting the Cloud: How EAs should think about Cloud Computing
Most of the information about Cloud Computing today comes from vendors. As a result, it skews toward purchasing software and hardware, and away from making balanced decisions in the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect must counterbalance vendor spin and place Cloud Computing into the proper context: among the many deployment options available, with its own unique advantages and disadvantages. This session outlines the primary issues an EA must consider in order to make appropriate decisions about various Cloud-based options, how to put together a Cloud roadmap, and how best to communicate the position the Cloud should take in the greater context of agile Enterprise Architecture. Delegates who attend this session will learn: A vendor-independent context and definition for Cloud Computing, as well as Cloud service and deployment models
Speaker
Pratheesh T, Senior Manager- Practice Lead and Principal solution Architect, Capgemini

11.15 AM to 11.45 AM: Morning Break
Some time out for you to grab another coffee and a well earned rest.

11.45 AM to 12.30 PM: Session 4
Cloud Systems Automation
We are now living through a paradigm shift in the Enterprise IT systems and infrastructure. Business is getting impatient with IT in provisioning and managing solutions rapidly. This talk will be focused on exploring how the essential agility and scalability in managing the cloud systems can be achieved with automation and managed autonomy.The talk will focus on a few key issues in managing the cloud system and present approaches to solve them, especially in hybrid cloud systems, combining private and public cloud services.
Speaker
Sundara Nagarajan, Director R&D- Storage Works Division, HP

12.30 PM to 1.15 PM: Session 5
Cloud Security Challenges Today and Tomorrow
Speaker
Bikram Barman, Senior Engineering Manager, RSA- The Security Division of EMC

1.15 PM to 2.00 PM: Lunch
Break for lunch on the house and a chance to catch up with each other!

2.00 PM to 2.45 PM: Session 6
Storage Service Automation for Cloud
Speaker
Sreedhara Narayanaswamy, Senior Engineering Director, NetApp R&D

2.45 PM to 3.30 PM: Session 7
Bullet Proof Your AWS Cloud Deployment
Given the recent outages on the Amazon Cloud, it is important to revisit the best practices in deploying applications on the cloud. I would be dealing with various strategies that can be effectively used to create your Cloud Infrastructure setup that will help you to quickly recover from any disasters. * Machine Image Creation for Applications * Application Deployment on AWS across Availability Zones and Region * Multi Cloud strategy * Best Practices in database Deployment and Recovery * Automation, Orchestration of Application Deployment * Disaster Recovery, Durability and Business Continuity
Speaker
Ezhilarasan Babaraj, Director, CSS Corp Labs

3.30 PM to 4.00 PM: Afternoon Break
Some time out for you to grab another coffee and a well earned rest.

4.00 PM to 4.45 PM: Session 8
Design for Failure: High Availability (HA) Architectures using AWS
Every cloud expert will acknowledge that Mantra for successful architecture in AWS is “Design for Failure” methodology and yet we observe that many applications do not adhere to that rule and fail miserably during outages. In this session, the speaker walks you through the art of building Highly Available applications in the AWS, shares the best practices, insights and designs for achieving HA in a multi-tiered application. This is a attend session for systems architects and develops who want to design highly available applications leveraging strengths of AWS.
Speaker
Harish Ganesan, CTO, 8K Miles

4.45 PM to 5.30 PM: Session 9
Integration in the cloud – Leveraging best of OnPremise and Cloud
Speaker
Rajasekar Shanmugam, CTO, AppPoint

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Internship @ PlayCez

PlayCez is an hottest start-ups in the country and finalist of Business Plan competition organized by IIT Bombay (Eureka) and IIM Bangalore (The Next Big Idea).PlayCez makes local reviews and trip planning simple, fun and more personal. Checkout www.playcez.com for more details.

Details of internship Internship period – March 2011 – May 2011.

At PlayCez you will get a chance to work with our amazing core team consist of people from IITs and BITS. They have experience in working at companies like Google and Deloitte.

Due to overwhelming response for internship, we have put an elimination task to filter out influential community leaders. Please note that it is an essential quality you have as you will represent us in your campus throughout the year.

You need to complete following elimination task, in order to qualify -

A- Invite your friends: Invite your friends to application (http://apps.facebook.com/playcez/) personally by following methods -
1- Send a mail to your friends asking them to try the application.
2- Put a posting in your college newsgroup/Facebook page or online forum asking people to join the application.
3- Put a posting in Facebook groups etc..

Key Projects -
Social Media and it\’s practical use in product marketing

How to Apply ?

1. Add PlayCez Facebook App –apps.facebook.com/playcez

2. Use the app and collect 1000 points (Chrome, Firefox, Safari)

3. Answer 3 simple questions –www.bit.ly/internatplaycez

4. Send us your Resume – playcez.com@indianinternship.com

Perks -
1. Experience certificate on successful completion of the project
2. Stipend for top intern
3. Cool giveaways for all interns

Students will be interviewed over phone and final decisions will be communicated over email and phone. Limited opportunities are available currently.
Desired profile:

Education – Students of BA, BC0m, BBA, Journalism, Mass Media, Bsc. etc. can apply.
Experience – No prior experience required.

Duration of internship – 1.5 to 2 months.

Technox Campus Ambassador Program

The Technox Campus Ambassador Program recognizes enthusiastic, hard-working and motivated individuals by giving them the opportunity to represent Technox on their campus. Ambassadors plan and host a few events during the school year, introduce students to new Technox Events or competition, and act as a campus contact for Technox teams.

Prerequisites:-

What is for me?

Responsibilities:-

How do I apply?

For any query mail to contact@technox.org

What is Android?

Android is a software stack for mobil devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.

Features

Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of components
Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices
Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine
Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional)
SQLite for structured data storage

Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)
GSM Telephony (hardware dependent)
Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and WiFi (hardware dependent)
Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware dependent)
Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for the Eclipse IDE
Linux Kernel

Android relies on Linux version 2.6 for core system services such as security, memory management, process management, network stack, and driver model. The kernel also acts as an abstraction layer between the hardware and the rest of the software stack.

Contains high-level classes encapsulating the overall Android application model.

An Android application is defined using one or more of Android’s four core application components. Two such application components are defined in this package: Activity and Service. The other two components are from the android.content package: BroadcastReceiver and ContentProvider.

An Activity is an application component that provides a screen with which users can interact in order to do something, such as dial the phone, take a photo, send an email, or view a map. An activity can start other activities, including activities that live in separate applications.

A Service is an application component that can perform long-running operations in the background without a user interface. For example, a service can handle network transactions, play music, or work with a content provider without the user being aware of the work going on.

The Fragment class is also an important part of an application’s design—especially when designing for large screen devices, such as tablets. A fragment defines a distinct part of an activity’s behavior, including the associated UI. It has its own lifecycle that is similar to that of the activity and can exist alongside other fragments that are embedded in the activity. While an activity is running, you can add and remove fragments and include each fragment in a back stack that’s managed by the activity—allowing the user to navigate backwards through the fragment states, without leaving the activity.

This package also defines application utilities, such as dialogs, notifications, and the action bar.

For information about using some the classes in this package, see the following documents: Activities, Services, Fragments, Using the Action Bar, Creating Dialogs, and Notifying the User.

Microsoft to Acquire Skype

Microsoft Corp. is nearing a deal to buy the popular Internet telephone service Skype.That could be the biggest deal in the 36-year history of Microsoft Corp.($6 billion purchase of the online ad service aQuantive in 2007 was biggest till now)

Microsoft is buying skype for $8.5 billion, so Skype will be a new division of Microsoft. So it shall be integrated in many Microsoft products like Windows Phone, XBox Live and many more. “We will move beyond email and text to rich experiences. Talking to colleagues across the world will be as seamless as talking to them across the table,” CEO Steve Ballmer predicted. “This allows us to extend from hundreds of millions to billions of people. We think this is a set of services that can reach everyone on the planet,” says Skype CEO Tony Bates. The agreement has been approved by the boards of directors of both Microsoft and Skype.

They know that 40% of total usage of skype is video. So skype and xbox are being used more like a home video conference system. It shall connect you to those people who you often talk to most of the time.

Buying Skype would give Microsoft a potentially valuable communications tool both for personal computers and smart phones.The acquisition will increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue opportunities. The combination will extend Skype’s world-class brand and the reach of its networked platform, while enhancing Microsoft’s existing portfolio of real-time communications products and services.

Skype is having a 663 million users worldwide who make voice and video calls over the Internet. The amount of calling on Skype's network totaled 207 billion minutes last year,Still Skype lost $7 million on revenue of $860 million last year.

About Skype:

Skype is communications software whose purpose is to break down barriers to communication. With an Internet-connected device, families, friends and colleagues can get together for free with messaging, voice and video. At low cost, they can also call landlines or mobiles virtually anywhere in the world. Skype has recently introduced group video, allowing groups of more than two people to do things together whenever they're apart. Founded in 2003 and based in Luxembourg. Skype can be downloaded onto computers, mobile phones and other connected devices for free.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Trojan Virus Gemini Has been Discovered in Android

The Android platform, which has seen rapid increase in malware attacks in the last year, has been once again targeted by a new Android malware dubbed “Gemini”. Mobile Security research firm Lookout discovered the Gemini trojan security risk through user postage in a forum and the security firm has said that it is the most decorated Android malware it has seen till date.
With every release of software and all there is always chance of virus so called being developed and same thing happened here as there has been developed A new Trojan affecting Android devices which was recently emerged in China.Naming which is known as “Geinimi”. This was infant discovered by a Mobile Security Company out there and this virus is automatically attached with some legitimate apps such as Monkey Jump 2, Sex Positions, President vs. Aliens, City Defense and Baseball Superstars 2010.

This works When a host application containing Geinimi is launched on a user’s phone and of course that is in Android powered phone this Trojan runs in the background and collects significant information that can compromise a user’s privacy on your device and These specific information like location coordinates and unique identifiers for the device (IMEI) and SIM card (IMSI). which is all that a hacker needs so this is completed almost of five minute intervals and once it connects this Geinimi attempts to connect to a remote server using one of ten embedded domain names in its codes.

In order to get infected, you would have to install an sideload app from a 3rd party or Chinese Market, meaning the trojan doesn’t come to your phone by way of the official Android Market. Thus this isn’t a giant threat.Here are some of thesubset of the domain names like www.widifu.com,www.udaore.com,www.frijd.com,www.islpast.com and www.piajesj.com.
If it connects, Geinimi transmits collected device information to the remote server which can be very harmful so be careful if you are going on for Android!!.

So here is a new and recent update for Mobile Security has been updated its version to protect your Android Phone against these kind of Trojans so you can get the Lookout for Free and its one of the best free security system for Android

Name : Suspicious:W32/Malware!Gemini
Category: Malware
Type: Suspicious
Platform: W32

Thursday, May 5, 2011

India's fastest supercomputer by ISRO

Hi guys.. Indians are done it again. Though Indian is having several problems such as Corruption,black money etc,It wont affact the growth of a India.And ISRO has been proving it from years together.Hats off to ISRO.

Indian Space Research Organisation has built a supercomputer, which is to be India's fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second).

The supercomputer "SAGA-220", built by the Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility located at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram at a cost of about Rs 14 crore was inaugurated by K Radhakrishnan, Chairman ISRO at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram.

The new Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) based supercomputer, "SAGA-220" (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 TeraFLOPS) is being used by space scientists for solving complex aerospace problems.

"SAGA-220" is fully designed and built by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre using commercially available hardware, open source software components and in house developments. The system uses 400 NVIDIA Tesla 2070 GPUs and 400 Intel Quad Core Xeon CPUs supplied by WIPRO with a high speed interconnect. With each GPU and CPU providing a performance of 500 GigaFLOPS and 50 GigaFLOPS respectively, the theoretical peak performance of the system amounts to 220 TeraFLOPS, the statement said.

ISRO’s existing supercomputer is only 70 teraflops, whereas this supercomputer can be ramped much higher than 220 teraflops. According to ISRO, the present GPU system offers significant advantage over the conventional CPU-based system in terms of cost, power and space requirements. The total cost of this supercomputer is about Rs 14 crore.

The present GPU system offers significant advantage over the conventional CPU based system in terms of cost, power and space requirements, it said. The system is environmentally green and consumes a power of only 150 KW. This system can also be easily scaled to many PetaFLOPS (1000 TeraFLOPS).