Last week we saw a lot of new features introduced in Windows Azure Platform. We also saw that all of these new features can be accessed either via new and improved Windows Azure Portal or using Service Management REST API (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee460799). In fact, … [Read more...]
Updates to Windows Azure Storage – Reduced Transaction Pricing and Geo Replication
June 8, 2012 by 1 Comment
[UPDATE] This is an updated post. When I initially published the post earlier today, I was under the impression that before yesterday’s announcement you paid lesser price for storage and with geo-replication feature (details below), you would pay a higher price. I WAS WRONG. I have since corrected … [Read more...]
Updates to Windows Azure Service Management REST API
June 7, 2012 by 4 Comments
Today, 7th of June 2012 is a big day for Windows Azure. A lot of new features are coming (IaaS, Support for Non-Windows Operating Systems, Windows Azure Websites etc. etc. [I could go on-and-on with the new features]). Check out Windows Azure website at https://www.windowsazure.com for more details. … [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...]
Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage
June 1, 2012 by 6 Comments
Taking a break from my personal and emotionally charged Cerebrata Story (https://gauravmantri.com/tag/cerebrata/) , I thought it would be nice to write a comparison between Google App Engine storage offerings and Windows Azure Storage offerings as some of the readers asked for it. So here I’m, … [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 work … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story–Return To India
May 23, 2012 by 27 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...]
Cerebrata Story – A Prologue
May 22, 2012 by 3 Comments
Before we start talking about my experience running this company, let me share some of my experiences before Cerebrata which led to some of the decisions I made when we built products at Cerebrata. Not very many folks know but back in the dot com boom era, me and a friend of mine started a company … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story
May 22, 2012 by 2 Comments
In case this is your first time on my blog or you haven’t had a chance to go through my self-gloating “About” page , I started Cerebrata in Udaipur a few years ago. Built a few products (successful I might say) and then sold the company (or rather products and IP) to Red Gate last year (2011). I … [Read more...]