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Front Matter

Moving to the Cloud

Moving to the Cloud

Developing Apps in the New World of Cloud Computing

Dinkar Sitaram

Geetha Manjunath

Technical Editor

David R. Deily

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sitaram, Dinkar.

Moving to the cloud: developing apps in the new world of cloud computing / Dinkar Sitaram and Geetha Manjunath; David R. Deily, technical editor.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-59749-725-1 (pbk.)

1. Cloud computing. 2. Internet programming. 3. Application programsDevelopment. I. Manjunath, Geetha. II. Title.

QA76.585.S58 2011

004.6782dc23

2011042034

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Dedication

To Swarna, Tejas, and Tanvi for their encouragement and support.

Dinkar

To my dear husband Manjunath, wonderful kids Abhiram and Anagha and my loving parents.

Geetha

About the Authors

Dr. Dinkar Sitaram is a Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard, Systems Technology and Software Division, in Bangalore, India. He is one of the key individuals responsible for driving file systems and storage strategy, including cloud storage. Dr. Sitaram is also responsible for University Relations, and Innovation activities at HP. His R&D efforts have resulted in over a dozen granted US patents. He is co-author of Multimedia Servers: Applications, Environments and Design. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. Dr. Sitaram received his Ph. D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his B. Tech from IIT Kharagpur. He joined as a research staff member in IBM's Research Division at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. At IBM, Dr. Sitaram received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award (an IBM Corporate Award) as well as IBM Research Division Award and several IBM Invention Achievement Awards for his patents and research. He also received outstanding paper awards for his work, and served on the editorial board of the Journal of High-Speed Networking.

Subsequently, he returned to India as Director of the Technology Group at Novell Corp. Bangalore. The group developed many innovative products in addition to filing for many patents and standards proposals. Dr. Sitaram received Novell's Employee of the Year award. Before joining HP, Dr. Sitaram was CTO at Andiamo Systems India (a storage networking startup later acquired by Cisco), responsible for architecture and technical direction of an advanced storage management solution.

Geetha Manjunath is a Senior Research Scientist and Master Technologist at Hewlett Packard Research Labs in India. She has been with HP since 1997 working on research issues in multiple systems technologies. During these years, she has developed many innovative solutions and published many papers in the area of Embedded Systems, Java Virtual Machine, Mobility, Grid Computing, Storage Virtualization and Semantic Web. She is currently leading a research project on cloud services for simplifying web access for emerging markets. As a part of this research, she conceptualized the notion of Tasklets and lead the development of a cloud-based solution called SiteOnMobile that enables consumers to access web tasks on low-end phones via SMS and Voice. The solution was awarded the NASCOM Innovation Award 2009 and has been given a status of HP Legend. It was also the winner of Technology Review India's 2010 Grand Challenges for Technologists (2010 TRGC) in the healthcare category.

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