ForeThought - RCV Innovations

Ideas are are like channels on Radio/TV. They are on air 24/7. All you need is the sensitivity to tune in to them. Once in tune encourage the torch bearers. Walk with them for couple of rounds of execution. This is a story of innovation that impacts the bottom of the pyramid. Our team is proud to be part of simple yet critical innovation that continues to improve healthcare for millions of below poverty line patients. About One and half year ago...We had opportunity to work with a organization called aarogysri (www. aarogyasri.org). We had won a contract to provide a email platform for this initiative. Providing a email platform was nothing more than a product sale, however we started engaging with different stake holders and over casual conversations. We understood the Business Model where Aaroagyasri trust(funded by government) pays a contracted amount to third party insurance company on behalf of below poverty line family, each hospital provides services to pat

One of my friends Karthik and I were talking about Cloud Marketplaces and his boss/my friend Raj Buyya (www.buyya.com) has written academic view on Cloud Market place. I had worldview that was grounded in reality of today's state of the art in cloud technology. In Today's Cloud Providers are very weak in providing B2b interfaces, there is no single window for: Uniform API's or Standards for Provisioning for SaaS, PaaS and IaaS Monitoring and Management frameworks Delegated Administration portals or mature Reseller Relationships Model for ISV relationships for Pay-per-use deployment of Applications Model for Engaging Consulting and SME' resources Model for Management platforms and Managed Service Providers Promotion and Adoption models - Monitization of Assets in Muliple Business Models(Free, Fremium, Ad-Supported, Premium, Concierage) Training and Certification Federated Identity Management Comprehensive Services Catalog A Practical approach is to Create a Cloud service

The Cloud Announcement of Sify did not come as a big bang one shot deal...It has lot to do with the Sound strategy, Business acumen and Persistent Execution of our Business Team. At the the outset there is a lot of hardwork and confidence of various technical teams to pull it off...There are several things that were done on the technology camp(Network, Storage, Servers and Data Center teams) for over two years that culminated into facing this deployment with conviction, courage and grace... The Major emphasis in cloud computing environments on how to execute the key processes such as Fulfilment(order processing and Provisioning), Assurance(monitoring, managment & SLO/SLA's) and Billing (usage reporting and Billing) with as as much automation as possible. These process famework has been established with our early SaaS initiatives. The First forray in to building a SaaS platform came about somewhere around March 2007. This was just before I joined sify... the leadership saw the v

Amozon EC2 is probably the most widely adopted User Centric API for cloud services. Google, SalesForce and other Providers expose api for transfer users and information into their own cloud platform. There are approaches such as simple cloud api from Zend to focus on helping the development of cloud native (php) applications using resources available in the public cloud. VMware created a comprehensive vCloud API to cover both user centric and provider centric functions of the cloud. vCloud API provides the necessary abstraction for automation of subscription/management activities by medium to large enterprises and forming inter-cloud relationships. The User centric API elements available in vCloud API include: Inventory Listing Catalog Management Provisioning Application Configuration In addition to the above, The API includes Service Provider activities for managing Organizations, Users, Roles and Product Catalogs. There is a need for open standards to evolve and cover S