What do Aditi and Sky-Diving in boxers have in common?

Author: Srikrishnan A Published: May 17th, 2012

Category: Hiring

Interview Count:
Telephonic: 3
In person: 5

Panelists:  CEO, MD, VP-HR, CFO.

Noteworthy incidents: Somehow, the security in charge was too busy in a meeting and hence his round got discounted. Slept through the telepathic interview.

As my profession demands, I visit at least a half a dozen clients every week. All of them are new age IT organizations that flaunt swanky offices. Aditi was no different with the high rise and modern art adorned walls. Lobby was typical.

That’s where the similarity ended.

SharePoint 2010 for enterprises: to build or not to build?

Author: Kumar Vishesh Published: May 16th, 2012

Category: Big Data

There is always this doubt which keeps creeping up with people who have invested or planning to invest in SharePoint 2010.

Can the "MAJOR PORTION OF BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS" be achieved by using OOB features of SharePoint 2010 while covering all the CRITICAL functionality?

It is significant to understand the importance of capitalised terms in the above statement:

HOW TO: Monetize ($$$) PaaS and its Implementation Models

Author: Sachin Sancheti Published: May 11th, 2012
Category: Cloud

CIO Strategies Summit is a dynamic forum that addresses the challenges and opportunities ahead for business leaders to finalize the roadmap for the next financial year.

I had the opportunity to listen to leading CIOs in India and was also honored to speak in front of them. Here is the agenda of the summit. I also attended and presented at a similar event held in Delhi.

My topic was “Monetizing Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Implementation Models” where PaaS here is (what else) Windows Azure. The inaugural key note from Manoj Agarwal, Senior VP, CIO & Head IT, SBI General Insurance on “Solving Tomorrow's Problem Today” helped set a very good platform for my topic about Cloud, PaaS and monetization.

Cloud Q&A: How Windows Azure Is Like Riding a Bicycle

Author: Sunny Neogi Published: May 10th, 2012

Category: Cloud

This article first appeared in the Redmond Channel Partner where Steve Marx, Chief Azure Architect at Aditi Technologies is interviewed by Scott Bekker about Windows Azure and his new role at Aditi Technologies.

Q: What were you doing in your last few years at Microsoft?

A: The last few months I was part of the marketing team for Windows Azure. My last job was as a technical product manager on the marketing team, doing blog posts, samples, talking with customers and broad developer outreach. Before that I was doing a similar job, but I was on the engineering team. I've been on the Azure team since the beginning. I started working on the SDK and gradually moved to explaining [Azure] to customers.

Betting big on big data?

Authors: Bharat Kumar and Sachin Sancheti Published: May 8th, 2012

Category: Big Data and Cloud

This article first appeared in The Hindu Business Line.

Big data is just that – big, and a big opportunity, as well. It may be the first time that the IT industry has finally named a new concept crisply, aptly and lucidly. But, as with all things IT, it still needs explaining. For instance, what was missing in data-warehousing and business intelligence (BI) that is now possible with Big Data?

Wikipedia, as always, puts it best: big data consists of data sets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools. Difficulties include capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics, and visualizing. This trend continues because of the benefits of working with larger and larger data sets allowing analysts to "spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime.”

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing

Published: May 7th, 2012
Category: Cloud

This article is an excerpt of an interview by Sramana Mitra of Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies. The entire interview can be read here.

"As more and more companies transition to cloud computing, the demand for platform-as-a-service (PaaS) will continue to grow. That will pose no problem for Aditi Technologies, which is already among the top three PaaS solution providers in the world and among the top five Microsoft technology partners in the United States. Aditi offers solutions to its clients in four domains:  digital marketing, cloud solutions, enterprise social and product engineering.

Sramana Mitra: Hi Pradeep. Please give us some context about Aditi as well as you personally.