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Everything in placement starts with Eligibility. In short, the principle of necessary and sufficient conditions says that ”things cannot happen without the conditions required for them to happen”. This is fairly obvious, but when applied to the placement process  as a whole, these principles carry grand implications.While eligibility is necessary it is NOT sufficient and does not guarantee job.  It is eligibility criteria that opens door for you to appear for campus hiring event.   Let me explain the relation between eligibility (necessary) and sufficient ( final placement) as follows.  The Conditions By way of illustration consider Mutnal ,  a local gym-rat. He is going to attempt to bench-press 325lbs. However, in order for Mutnal  to get the weight up off the rack, he must possess the conditions necessary to do so; that is he must be strong enough to bench-press the weight. This “necessary strength” is considered the necessary condition ( in our placement context, it is eligibil

There are few other areas of the world as ripe for cloud development as India. Established tech nations such as the United States, Great Britain, or Japan have years of legacy systems and non-cloud standards to clear out while other, less technologically fortunate areas of the world struggle to establish themselves in a new market. India, meanwhile, has not only a substantive amount of technology-based business thanks to both outsourcing and home-grown startups but a lack of legacy systems to interfere with new-project adoption. Now, the country's first significant  cloud computing  platform has launched. Is such cloud globalization another sign that companies need to move forward or risk getting left behind? . Here is complete story 

Consolidation, private Cloud and business agility are the primary growth drivers for IT expenditure. Going forward, Infrastructure-as-a-Service and co-location will propel the managed services market. By Harshal Kallyanpur At its recent Infrastructure Operations and Data Center Summit, Gartner provided its 2012 outlook for the Indian data center market. The analyst firm estimated that the Indian IT infrastructure market consisting of servers, storage and networking equipment would reach $2.05 billion in 2012, growing 10.3% from 2011. It also predicted that the IT infrastructure market was expected to reach $3.01 billion by 2016.The findings further indicated that storage would have a CAGR of 18.9%. According to Aman Munglani, Research Director, Gartner, the primary reasons for this growth could be attributed to the fact that enterprise storage requirements were on the rise and that storage capacities were expected to grow by 60-70%  in the next five years. The complete

Train the Trainer Workshop Cloud Computing using Windows Azure Thursday, 28th June to Saturday, 30th June, 2012 Venue: NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte, Mangalore I will be attending a three day training program Train the Trainer Workshop , Cloud Computing using Windows Azure.    

Technology adoption is not an absolute. It takes on a different shape, size and scope in different geographical and industrial segments. There are a few things that differentiate Indian adoption of technology from the rest of the world and the most prominent of all characteristics is “Best Affordable Innovation”. In a country where diversity is ingrained in all aspects of economy, this is one characteristic that stands out. Cloud computing is one of such technologies that fit into the pulse of the Indian culture. Here is complete story from Hindu

Cloud Computing in India and Emerging Markets “The change created  by the cloud  ecosystem will be  manifested 20% in the  realm of technology  and the remainder  through social  change.”,  Industry Participant,  New Delhi Workshop,  November 2010 The World Economic Forum held a workshop in New Delhi on 23 November 2010,  convening over 30 leading Indian decision-makers, including service providers, users,  government representatives and academia. The goals of the workshop were to  identify the potential benefits and opportunities of cloud computing in India and other  emerging economies; address the unique challenges to its implementation in emerging  markets; and explore in which areas emerging markets could take the lead in cloud  development. Market Potential Small and medium-sized companies with limited resources and access to IT are expected to  be the greatest beneficiaries in India from the efficiency gains promised by cloud computing.  For these companies, partici

Advancing Cloud Computing: What To Do Now? | World Economic Forum - Advancing Cloud Computing: What To Do Now? via kwout Here is the thinking of World Econmic Forums thinking on Cloud Computing in the days to come 

Research projects that by 2020, most data will reside in the cloud. Although Linux is a logical operating system choice for running cloud services, there are still certain precautions you need to take before you integrate these technologies. Access tips, news, blogs, and interviews for information on how Linux fits into cloud initiatives , a comparison of the vendor offerings available, and advice to help you successfully navigate the transition. Explore the latest open source cloud trends and gain insight into: The key players in the open source cloud market How virtualization enables remotely-hosted cloud computing Five Linux security risks you need to address prior to your cloud deployment And more Find out everything you need to know about Linux in the cloud with these essential resources now.

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Public Engagement Today I was invited to inagurate a 45 days workshop on Desktop publishing(DTP) for unemplyed youth at RUDSETI, Dharwad.

Here is an interesting blog on " Why educator should consider Blogging? Once a week, a new to-do pops up on my productivity software client that alerts me that it’s time to do a blog entry. Most of the time I admire the line and proceed to complete a dozen other tasks that, if not completed, will affect my job performance. Yet, I am fully aware that I am a part-time Web 2.0 evangelist like many of you. Here are a few reasons why educators should blog:  more details here

  A Research Engineer at Facebook narrates the expectations in new potential recruit .  This is from Serverside Magazine First and foremost, the ideal Facebook engineering candidate should be good at coding. I know this sounds silly, but a surprising fraction of the people we interview could improve their coding skills instead of focusing on mastering specific languages or technologies. We look for good generalists able to move freely within the organization. Feel free to choose your favorite programming language when interviewing. The typical Facebook interviewer accepts a choice of 3 – 6 languages, subject to the ones she’s comfortable assessing coding ability in. The candidates I personally interviewed used Java, C, C++, C#, Javascript, Python, Ruby, PHP, Pascal, and even pseudo-code. (I recall I recommended “hire” for the pseudo-code guy.) We do care about one’s ability to code; code is quintessential for us, for engineers from front-end to back-end to system

Data Centre is fundamental in the cloud computing context and is pivotal both for service providers and end user. For service providers data centre is the infrastructure that they need to build and maintain and for end users it the source of all applications ( SaaS) and home of all their data. Wikipedia defines " A data center or data centre or computer centre (also datacenter or datacentre ) is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. It generally includes redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data communications connections, environmental controls (e.g., air conditioning, fire suppression) and security devices. Given the importance of data centre in the context of cloud computing, here is separate blog dedicated to the topic of data centre. It covers trends, basics, books and a custom search engine. Data Centre Blog

Dear Sir/Madam, The 4th IEEE Conference on Technology for Education (T4E2012) is being organized by EnhanceEdu at IIIT Hyderabad between July 18-20.Two days of pre-conference tutorials by renowned experts such as Dr. Shailey Minocha will be held on Monday July 16 and an overview of NMEICT projects will be held on Tuesday July 17. One day of post-conference workshop will be held on July 21. This conference will have several international speakers deliver keynote addresses and conduct workshops and tutorials. More details are available at http://t4e.iiit.ac.in We invite you to take advantage of this golden opportunity by registering as many members of your staff as well as students to the conference. Early bird registration ends on June 18, 2012. Call for participation poster is being attached for your kind perusal. We look forward to your enthusiastic participation in the upcoming conference. Thanking you, Warm regards, Sandhya Kode General Chair T4E 2012 Chief Mentor & Director, E

As I recommend Upon asking for career advice , I often hear people- parents and well wishers say " Go by u r interest , u will succeed". That is cliche and is too dangerous to heed. Interest after all is personal and has no social meaning. If interest were to make someone successful, then every kid going to cricket summer camp will end up in Indian national team or every student in a dancing school would become a dancing exponent. A successful career needs at least three components: Interest, skill and value system. Interest of course is needed but sufficient. The best that interest can give u is "satisfaction". But skill is what gives social meaning, contribution and of course economic value to an individual. Skill also gives u the edge in time of competition. Finally value system that which makes the individual to enjoy if not tolerate the mundane part of the work. Unless NR Murthy had fully accepted the value of his work in building Infosys, he would not have

Both Facebook and Google are engineering marvels. In their ambition to build a planetary scale enterprises- web search by Google and social network by Facebook- they have taken engineering enterprise to new heights and dimensions.  Understanding then building and working of these modern day engineering wonders is  desirable by every engineering students. Hence is the new course that In introducing the upcoming semester. The course titled- Industry oriented practices will cover the following topics The Engineering side of Google  The Engineering side of Facebook Google Tools for Personal and Professional Use Facebook Tools for Personal and Professional Use The meaning and purpose of Big Data I request you to help me refine, expand the above course theme. You are also requested to suggest recommendations, comments and references

Placement is one of my recent responsibilities. When I took over this assignment, one of my feelings was that students are not getting enough opportunities because a good number of companies are not for campus hiring.  When the placement activities started happening, I started getting new insights. One of the persistent objections by students is that " don't allow already selected students" for further campus hiring events. I went by the general wisdom that already selected students if allowed to appear for more companies, they are "snatching" jobs from others. To verify I did an experiment. For the last company that visited for campus hiring, I allowed only 80+ students who had not got single offer in previous events. In others words, this was chance to grab their first job. My thinking was that " since no selected student is in the race, many will get the job" When the written results were announced, only 16 of 80 students who appeared for the