In this post about my journey with Cerebrata, I will talk about team management (erstwhile known as Human Resource Management or at times in India as Personnel Management). Our team management policies are built around one simple principle: Karma is a bitch! You mess with karma and in time karma … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story – Azure Management Cmdlets
December 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Continuing Cerebrata journey, in this blog post I will describe how we built our 3rd product – Azure Management Cmdlets. In short this product contains a number of PowerShell Cmdlets for managing Windows Azure. Why Did We Build It? Only reason I could think of regarding building this product was … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story–Azure Diagnostics Manager
September 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Continuing Cerebrata journey, in this blog post I will describe how we built our 2nd product – Azure Diagnostics Manager. History During the public beta phase of Cloud Storage Studio (CSS) before PDC 2009, a number of our users asked us the build the capability of visualizing their cloud … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story – Marketing
August 28, 2012 By 2 Comments
In the previous post about Cloud Storage Studio, I walked you through our experience about building a product and making it commercially available. Now we were left with a gigantic task – How to market the product? In this post I will talk about what all things we did for marketing our products … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story–Cloud Storage Studio
August 21, 2012 By 3 Comments
In the last post about our Cloud Storage Studio/e product, I mentioned how we stopped working on that product in favor of a desktop based product. In this blog post, I will write some details about building a product which turned out to be the flagship product for Cerebrata – Cloud Storage … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story–Cloud Storage Studio/e
July 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In the last post about Cerebrata, I spoke about our first product Omega.SDSClient and how in a period of 4 months that product completed it’s lifecyle. You can read that post here: http://gauravmantri.com/2012/06/05/cerebrata-story-omega-sdsclient/. In the post, I will continue from where we … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story-Omega.SDSClient
June 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
So we had a product (Omega.MSSQL) which can be used to manage SQL Server databases through a browser based interface. Around the time I came back to India, Microsoft announced Windows Azure and one of the component there was SQL Data Services (SDS, code named Sitka). It was presented as SQL Server … [Read more...]
Dear prospective employees, here’s what I ask of you and what you can expect in return
May 26, 2012 By 8 Comments
NYTimes written a nice open letter to Indians Graduates and Post Graduates which touches upon nice things. You can read that article here: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/an-open-letter-to-indias-graduating-classes/. Then there was an equally good rebuttal from an employee perspective, … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story-First Few Months
May 24, 2012 By 6 Comments
It was July 2008 and I was back in India with absolutely no clue as to what I will be doing. I didn’t even had an office at that time. Had absolutely no clue as to how I am going to hire, and even if I am going to hire folks, what will they be working on. The only sane thing at that time from … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story–Return To India
May 23, 2012 By 12 Comments
This post is for all my friends settled abroad and harboring the wish to return to India. I don’t mean to preach or encourage or influence them in any way to come to India. It’s a very personal and important decision considering how much time you have spent abroad. I just want to share my … [Read more...]