Startups and the Cloud Chain Reaction

Plan for the talk

India sucks Startups as key to future Indian success Unsolicited startup advise Great computing convergence Services Ocean Model Startups and Cloud – Potent combo for

disruption Conclusion

Why I am talking here?

• Because I am an analyst• 30000 feet view• No emotions

(Ideally)• Activist analyst?

India Sucks

Wasted Talent

Stop Reinventing Wheel

Startups As India’s Future

Unsolicited Advise

Think big Fail fast and often Disrupt yourselves Hire Imagineers – Say NO to engineers Distributed architecture FTW Forget humans and think APIs

Think Big

Fail Fast And Often

Disrupt Yourselves

Imagineers NOT Engineers

Distributed Architecture FTW

Easy to failEasy to disruptEasy imagineering

Forget Humans Think APIs

Great Computing Convergence

Understanding Cloud

Imagine cloud to be the

“infrastructure” for data (where

the action happens)

Understanding Social

• Social is not about relationships and conversation

• Social is about relationship between data

• Social is a data source

Understanding Mobile

• Mobile is not just an interface• Mobile is also a

sensor and a source of data

Big Data

Today

Great Computing Convergence

• Services, Services, Services

• Large scale automation

• Complex Adaptive Systems

Internet Of Things

Services Ocean Model

World is full of services: Infrastructure Services, Platform Services, Services around data (called Apps in the previous era), Sensors as services, Data services, Intelligence as a service, etc.

Services interact via APIs Services are also consumed through APIs Service plumbers (Ops), Service Devs

(Developers) & Service Consumers (Biz Users)

Startups And Cloud

Startups And Cloud

Cloud lets you think big Cloud lets you fail fast and often Cloud lets you disrupt yourself more easily Distributed architecture is in the cloud DNA Cloud is part of the Services Ocean and

forms the basis for higher order services Cloud levels the playing ground for startups

Conclusion

My Coordinates

Work: Principal Analyst, Rishidot Research and Editor, CloudAve.comEmail: krishnan@krishworld.comTwitter: @krishnanWebsite: www.rishidot.comBlog: www.cloudave.com/author/krishnan/Slides: www.slideshare.net/rishidot