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72 days ago
If you are dealing something related to SaaS or Cloud computing, then you must have heard these terms very frequently. I wanted to understand it better and found useful information in Wikipedia Capital expenditures (CAPEX) are expenditures creating future benefits. A capital expenditure is incurred when a business spends money either to buy fixed assets or to add to the value of an existing fixed asset with a useful life that extends beyond the taxable year. Capex are used by a company to acquire or upgrade physical assets such as equipment, property, or industrial buildings. Via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_expenditure An Operating expense, operating expenditure, operational expense, operational expenditure or OPEX is an on-going cost for running a product, business, or system. Its counterpart, a capital expenditure (CAPEX), is the cost of developing or providing non-consumable parts for the product or system. For ...
72 days ago
I was attending a conference on cloud computing and one of the speakers said, if your application is not multi-tenant, then your application is not SaaS. Let us look at the SaaS system Characteristics 1. Availability via Web Browser 2. On-demand availability 3. Pay-per usage 4. Minimal or zero IT Demands. Let us look at what a multi tenant application is all about It’s a model where multiple clients can be supported in one single software instance. This will help the SaaS Provider to support more clients on fewer hardware components; rollouts/updates will be easier. Read this post on Multi Tenant Architecture from MSDN to know more about Multi Tenancy. My point here is, it depends on the service offerings and the customizations required. Also, it’s about the way you manage your deployments. I am not disagreeing that this may provide ...
73 days ago
Sendhil forced me to read this book Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud 2 months back, which has helped me to understand the term Cloud computing. OK, so what’s Cloud Computing? If you don’t have the time to read and understand, then watch these videos from Youtube.com ü Cloud Computing Plain and Simple ü Cloud Computing Explained ü What is Cloud Computing? If you like reading, then start it from the Wikipedia page on Cloud Computing Cloud computing is a paradigm of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the "cloud" that supports them. The concept generally incorporates combinations of the following: ü ...
85 days ago
My collection of notes on Learning Organization: Gathered from Various Sources in the Web. " Organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to learn together " (Peter Senge, 1990) Learning organizations are those that have in place systems, mechanisms and processes , that are used to continually enhance their capabilities and those who work with it or for it, to achieve sustainable objectives - for themselves and the communities in which they participate. The important points to note about this definition are that learning organizations: · Are adaptive to their external environment · Continually enhance their capability to change/adapt · ...
86 days ago
Sendhil shared this interesting link with me on Motivation. Excellent Presentation. I liked 2 things in this Video. 1. The Presentation Content. Which talked about the intrinsic motivational factors 2. The Presenter. The way he presented and kept the audience's interest. Its a short video for 18 minutes. Do not miss it. Thanks Sendhil for sharing.
