Ajay Budhraja

I worked extensively in the telecommunications area to lead large, innovative nationwide mobile application and portal rollouts that included mobile platforms, applications, databases, services and integration mechanisms. With the explosion of the Cloud and Mobile Cloud, the entire digital landscape is changing. With 4G, bandwidth and latency issues are on the path of being progressively addressed. Not just traditional computers, but mobile devices are accessing Cloud and Big Data services like never before. Smartphones and tablets are the high growth areas in mobile computing. Some tablets have been quite popular as devices and are transforming the rendering and processing of information.  Mobile applications need to run efficiently on various devices such as Androids, iPhones. Mobile applications have forced the push of processing and storage from the devices to t... (more)

Cloud and Big Data Transition - Assess Then Fly into the Clouds

There is great excitement about the cloud; however, it is important to conduct a full assessment as part of the Cloud Transition. It is very important to decide which applications will be moving to the cloud based on factors such as alignment with business requirements, cost savings, level of effort, available resources, benefits of the new solution, risks etc to determine business and functional benefits. Architecture and security aspects need to be thoroughly assessed, and factors such as interoperability, reliability, portability, storage, data transfer, sensitivity of data have... (more)

Hybrid Clouds - Beyond the Private Cloud Horizon

The million dollar question has been "Can an organization move all its applications to a public cloud?". Instead of moving all applications to the public cloud, many organizations are choosing a hybrid approach where on-premise resources can be leveraged and can interact with external resources. A hybrid cloud is a combination of public, private and community clouds. Most private clouds are internal, however there can be situations where private clouds are hosted at a vendor site. For this discussion, I am focusing on the private clouds that are hosted internal to the organizati... (more)

Cloud Computing and the Olympics

The London Olympics are not using the Cloud. Cloud computing seems a good match for the Olympics for provisioning a scalable and on-demand architecture quickly, and then taking it down after the event. That is precisely what the technology supports. The integration and deployment of the infrastructure for the Olympics is a big program with hundreds of servers due to the various events and related technology needed to support them. This can cause technologists to take a more conservative path to manage risks and stick to utilizing existing technologies. An event like the Olympic... (more)

Mobile Cloud with Big Data

"Cloud is like traveling to the Moon, Mobile Cloud with Big Data is like traveling to Mars" - Ajay Budhraja I worked extensively in the telecommunications area to lead large nationwide mobile application and portal rollouts that included mobile platforms, applications, services and integration mechanisms. With the proliferation of smart phone and tablets, mobile devices are accessing new and innovative applications everyday and the amount of data and processing requirements have exploded. Millions of devices are being added each year. Plug in a Cloud into this situation and you ... (more)