Cloud Computing

having seen the traditional software development efforts over the last 12+yrs & having seen the way we always have common development issues in terms of supporting the product on the server side & the object data store which is of utmost importance to scale the application & also offering the backend support for the business data that is being transacted day in & day out.This demands a greater team of resources who have expertise handling the server side & transaction level details(OS, Server Hardware, Databases, Front/GUI API etc).
Flash forward to 2008 & we are already seeing great support to Cloud or "Platform as a Service" models giving breather to groups of innovators who have been delaying the efforts due to failed teams or expensive resources, personally I have been involved with metadata based applications & support the cloud model by heart, have always tried to project that companies do not need a team of IT developers to design/develope/maintain day to day business applications, Amazon EC2/S3 & other upcoming data storage as well as PaaS Services will make it easy & cost effective for all to build/deploy/ & maintain applications in cloud with minimal IT resources/teams.
contact me on vshintre@definee.com if you are looking for a cloud/PaaS application developer

Metadata based application design

Have been instrumental in designing & developing metadata based enterprise applications. Now that SaaS & PaaS services are being offered by major vendors we are moving away from traditional product development models.Given the cost advantage along with the application infrastructure maintenance benefits I feel cloud computing is here to stay, so enterprise on demand is a reality.From CRM, Email, to hosted data services like Amazon s3 building a product offering seems like a click away, which I think will boost greater innovation & bring more competitive vendors in the market giving cost advantage to clients. So 3 cheers to metadata & multi tenant platforms, I feel the multi tenant should extend to multi technology so that 1 is not bound by the platform limitations, though the integration seems open ended via web services & xml the end user should have a choice to deploy the app using PaaS while choosing the technology he wants. that way he has the option to keep his product development both in sync on & off PaaS/SaaS frameworks.
Contact me if you are looking for a Web Services & metadata expert on vshintre@definee.com