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	<description>Blog on Cloud Computing, SOA, SaaS, and my personal flying experiences....</description>
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		<title>Anatomy of a SAAS Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SaaS architectures are pretty basic. I thought I would write a few words too describe the basics of any SaaS application.
Obviously each SaaS application offers some Core Functionality or Services. This is the core on which a vendor is able to attract customers and earn money. For example &#8211; WorkDay is a SaaS vendor that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2010/03/anatomy-of-a-saas-application/</link>
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		<title>Multitenancy in the Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have (like many others) been part of several debates and conversations on why is multitenancy important for the cloud. Alok Misra posts an interesting article in Information World with a lot of valid reasons and certainly I agree with them.
http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/blog/archives/2010/02/why_multitenanc.html?catid=cloud-computing
Here is what I have to add -
I was recently on a call with Oracle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2010/03/multitenancy-in-the-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Blackberry for Work &#8211; Upcoming Book Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Books are written and published by the hundreds every day. Topics ranging from technology to philosophy throng the literary market. So what is it that gave this book the courage to reach out to you? It isn’t the content of it, neither is it the style. It is the soul of the book that eternally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2010/02/blackberry-for-work-upcoming-book-release/</link>
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		<title>Cloud Computing Providers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The classification of cloud providers continues to expand. Gartner and InfoWorld (amongst others) have created diagrams trying to explain the different categories of Cloud providers and services. My view below encompasses both their views as well as tries to rationalize the categories in a slightly different way than those papers.
I will not explain each box [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/10/235/</link>
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		<title>US Citizenship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got my US citizenship yesterday. I must say this was the least painful immigration process that I have been through in the last 13 years of being in the US.
1. Started with a Student Visa in 1996
2. EAD in 1999
3. H1-B in 2000
4. Green card application in 2002 and subsequent EAD&#8217;s till 2004
5. Green [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/09/us-citizenship/</link>
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		<title>Gmail outage today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am reading way too many articles and blogs really dinging Google for its Gmail outage today. Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I was as impacted by this as anybody else &#8211; I use Gmail and Google Accounts for personal as well as multiple businesses. 
However, the last Gmail outage that I can recall was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/09/gmail-outage-today/</link>
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		<title>What the &amp;*&amp;( is Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently saw these presentations on Social Media and wanted to share it&#8230; Enjoy.
It is interesting to compare this to the second presentation along the same lines done 1 year later&#8230;
What The F**K is Social Media?
View more documents from Marta Kagan.

What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later
View more documents from Marta Kagan.

  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/08/what-the-is-social-media/</link>
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		<title>Bodhtree and my partnership for SaaS and Cloud Computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am partnering with Bodhtree Consulting, a boutique consulting form from Hyderabad, India to build a SaaS and Cloud Computing center of excellence. Here is a recent press release announcing this partnership.
CNBC
Reuters
          Sys-Con
          Financial Express
   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/08/bodhtree-and-my-partnership-for-saas-and-cloud-computing/</link>
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		<title>Neeta&#8217;s learning to fly..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neeta is starting her flight lessons; welcome to the world of being a student pilot&#8230;.
She has about 8 hours now, and today she did a phenomenal take-off from Hawthorne. She is within private pilot limits on slow flight, power-on stalls and power-off stalls (dirty configuration). Today, she was also doing both the stalls with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/08/neetas-learning-to-fly/</link>
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		<title>Consulting CTO&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See this interesting blog posting about the value of a Consulting CTO. Consulting CTO&#8217;s can help you out on a short term basis; generally for small amounts of equity.
Depending on the type and amount of work; you will end up giving 25,000-100,000 stock options (where you have 10 million outstanding @ .01 &#8211; .10 cents). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/08/consulting-ctos/</link>
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		<title>iPhone Application &#8211; Stretch and Strengthen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first iPhone application finally went live. Bodhtree Consulting and Bob Alonzi were my partners in crime.
See the application on ITunes at

itms://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=315331924&#38;mt=8&#38;s=143441
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		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/08/iphone-application-stretch-and-strengthen/</link>
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		<title>Burton Catalyst Conference in San Diego, July 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently spoke at the Burton Catalyst conference in San Diego, California. 
The topic of my talk, titled &#8220;Using Identity Virtualization to Mitigate Risk at Sony Pictures Entertainment&#8221;, covered a recent project I did at Sony Pictures, to implement the Radiant Logic Virtual Directory. Simeio Solutions provided consulting services for my project. 
Mark Dixon covers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/08/burton-catalyst-conference-in-san-diego-july-2009/</link>
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		<title>Enterprises thinking about using the Cloud&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of Enterprise IT, you might have been asked this questions a few times now – “Should we be using a Cloud as part of our data center strategy?”
In order to answer this questions, here is some food for thought…
What do you expect the benefits to be?

Data Center Agility – managing unpredictable demand
Economic – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/07/enterprises-thinking-about-using-the-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0 changes the Art industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently ran across a new innovative Web 2.0 marketing campaign. ArtFlute is a premier Art portal based out of India. They have artists wanting to post art from all over the world &#8211; however for now they are focusing on the Indian market. 
In partnership with a boutique consulting firm in Hyderabad (Bodhtree Consulting), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/06/web-20-changes-the-art-industry/</link>
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		<title>Vista install &#8211; funny, sad and annoying with Bluetooth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just ran into a almost funny situation. I was installing Vista on my home desktop and as it was installing, I realized that I will have this issue.
I only have and use a bluetooth keyboard with my desktop. As the OS was upgrading from XP to Vista, it lost the bluetooth settings. Once the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/06/vista-install-funny-sad-and-annoying-with-bluetooth/</link>
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		<title>Importance of Identity in a Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Cloud Computing phenomena catches on, the management of Identity becomes even more critical. Consider the simplest use case &#8211; A typical consumer is trying to buy a eBook and store it some online storage SaaS provider. The diagram shows the typical flow for this consumer. How can this person link all their accounts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/05/importance-of-identity-in-a-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Flight from Henderson to Hawthorne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a continuation to my previous post, this flight was probably the toughest flight I have ever done. We were full fuel, with 3 SOB&#8217;s. Takeoff was a nightmare. I could not keep the computer aligned with the runway &#8211; a strong gusting wind kept pushing me off the center line. Oh well.. that was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/04/flight-from-henderson-to-hawthorne/</link>
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		<title>Night flight to Henderson, Las Vegas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday night, Neeta and I decided to go to Las Vegas for the NAB show. Instead of driving, we decided to do a night flight from Hawthorne to Henderson. Shiva just landed after a 3 hour flight from Reed Hill View, in the San Francisco Bay area. We fueled and took off.
The flight was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/04/night-flight-to-henderson-las-vegas/</link>
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		<title>IFR actual flight from Hawthorne to Montgomery Field in San Diego</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shiva, Neeta and I decided to do an IFR flight, the day after Shiva passed his IFR check ride. We convinced Neeta to fly into actual conditions. The weather was not too bad, just a layer of clouds with tops between 4500-6000 with occasional rain showers. The briefer told us that the rain was all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/04/ifr-actual-flight-from-hawthorne-to-montgomery-field-in-san-diego/</link>
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		<title>The link between SOA, Web 2.0 and SaaS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last posting, I put out a thought that SOA is the foundation to the success of Web 2.0 and SaaS. Let&#8217;s talk more about that.
SOA provides for the loose coupling of business functionality and access to this functionality over the wire. Actually the real value behind SOA is how Web 2.0 / SaaS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/03/the-link-between-soa-web-20-and-saas/</link>
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		<title>SaaS, Web 2.0, SOA &#8211; The relationship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SaaS and Web 2.0 are the new mantras, and once we recover from the financial crisis, these technology concepts will see a new birth. The hundreds of startups, service providers and hosting providers that are aggresively innovating new products and services will finally see the customer base they would have hoped for, if the economic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/03/saas-web-20-soa-the-relationship/</link>
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		<title>Flight to Camarillo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, John (Strategic Accounts Manager from Wipro), his wife Jennifer and I flew from Hawthorne to Camarillo for lunch.
The weather was pretty much overcast with tops at 5000. I filed my flight plan for 6000 (IFR). However, ATC restricted me at 4000 &#8211; which meant, pretty much after my climb to 4000, I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/03/flight-to-camarillo/</link>
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		<title>Freezing Requirements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All of us have had challenges with IT projects and the &#8220;fluid&#8221; nature of requirements. Having frozen requirements is a fallacy. I was reading about Six Sigma and found this interesting piece of data that I thought I would share.
Donald Reinertsen from the California Institute of Technology has been collecting data from product development managers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/01/freezing-requirements/</link>
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		<title>Cloud Computing Alphabet Soup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In IT, I guess we finally got tired of TLA&#8217;s (three letter acronyms) &#8211; so in the Cloud world, we are inventing FLA&#8217;s (four letter acronyms).
SAAS &#8211; Software as a Service is now pretty well known.
So let&#8217;s add to it &#8211; 
PAAS &#8211; Platform as a Service (can be a whole range &#8211; User Interface, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/01/cloud-computing-alphabet-soup/</link>
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		<title>20 Cloud Companies to look at</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent infoweek article talks about 20 Cloud vendors to keep your eye on. These include
CogHead
Enomaly
Heroku
Hyperic
Intridea
Joyent
Layered Technologies
Mosso
Parascale
Relationals
10Gen
3Tera
You can find the article at
http://i.cmpnet.com/informationweekreports/doc/2008/210602537.pdf
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		<link>http://kunalmittal.com/blog/2009/01/20-cloud-companies-to-look-at/</link>
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