My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

This is one of the best articles about cloud, which explains in simple terms the different between the cloud solutionns and non cloud solutions.  As soon as I read it, I wanted to share it as I found it to be written with a lot of experience in doing up the cloud applications. http://gigaom.com/cloud/what-cloud-boils-down-to-for-the-enterprise-2/?utm_source=%23frankguillen&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign= FrankGuillen +Buzz

Two weeks and two travels to Bangalore for 2 different reasons - an experience in itself.  of course, both on official purposes to attend conferences The first was to Mobile Developer Summit - what a different kind of energy there was in the crowd.  A young crowd of geeks - who took pride in their apps milling around with enthusiasm and very interactive too. The venue was IISC and while things were very professionally handled, it was with no frills. the second was to Nasscom product conclave -  A professional high end kind variety conference right from the venue to the conference rooms, the presentations, etc.  Here also the crowd was going around with enthusiasm and very interactive too. the difference lies in that while it was geek squad, this was the entrepreneiural bug bitten crowd.  It was amazing to hear that in this is the decade of the Indian Products show and there are 4 billion $ products out in the market All made in India. Though the trave...

back to active work after a long time had kept me away from even visiting this site, as once I visit, I cannot resist writing. The next thing was what to write.  There were a lot of things happening around me both in personal, organization and social life around me so every time I would think, a nice subject to blog about, but the work overload would make me to push it to the next day. Ok, after having started back :  Let me term this as a confessions of about Daily5 goal setting.  Let me start with the context :  In our office, we are reading through the Robin Sharma's book :  The leader Who had No Title - a really wonderful book with every chapter, every page, every sentence and every word - a very very meaningful one.  If only we get to practice all those said in the book, then the whole world would be totally a different world.  Anyways, I hope some of us are absorbing at least 10-20% of what he has written - which would by itself create a vast...

Last month I got a promotion in life ..... and it was indeed a momentous occasion for all of us.  I have now become a proud grandmother of a baby girl Shayna, (the beautiful) who has turned one month old today.  What it meant...    It was last year, during the end of one of my trips that I learnt the good news about the upcoming arrival of the baby.  It felt very very wonderful and that meant that my priorities were about to change.   I started preparing a long stay with my daughter to help her during this wonderful time.  So began a long stay options in US.  While the first trip of this year - it was business and family and it became one week of business trip and one week of stay with my daughter.  it was pretty tough doing all these together, but it was worth it from both the ends.  Then I had to go back to Chennai to take care of year end work and other things.  So again, the next trip back here so that i can be...

While my earlier post was about the farmers plight in India, here is another, this time taken from the letters to the editor from The Hindu.  This is about different kind of problems faced by the farmers in Tamil Nadu. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/letters/article2236334.ece I am totally in agreement with this write up and I have seen how in our village the NGERA work is being misutilized with just the sole objective of providing work for the people and no gain from the work for the village.  One day I saw few people cleaning up the road - clearing off the grass and other weeds from the side.  Of course, this would help, but these people were doing in when it was about the rain the next day and also when the farming season was in full swing - where more agricultural hands are needed.  Thats why what is good for one region cannot be applied to other region.  In fact, in Trichy and Tanjore district, there is work on the farm lands year around what with the su...

It was a poignant statement about a mother from a daughter, when asked the question - what is the enduring  memory of your mother  and the daughter replies" More than anything, I would like to remember her when she was not working at all.  When I slept, she was working and when I woke up she was working"    What a statement about a farmer who has committed suicide ( yes I havent written as a woman farmer - because I dont believe the gender has anything to differentiate between the work you do as a human being).  Of course, Sudha mani, the daughter didnt get any state compensation, because the Indian society doesn't recognize woman as a farmer, but only as a farmer's wife.  dont get me wrong, this article is not about the gender inequality.  This article is about the sorry plight of Indian farmers across India, who commit suicides day in and day out.   I was most touched by this documentary in NDTV and wa...

While everybody in India is talking about the corruption in high places, the amount of money (how many zeros will be there to denote the huge amount that is being touted), I found it very refreshing to have met  this young boy last month. A tiny one room on the top of a old building - climbing up the stairs strained with pan spittings on both sides, somebody taking a nap on the landing - Not a definite winner of a Great Place to work.  But this guy  Tanvir was enjoying his work and was so proud of what he and his other coworkers were doing..   "Polishing Silver and Gold articles" Yes this was the profession he was undertaking as a family business and which has been traditionally done by his ancestors - What was refreshing was the pride he had and the happiness he found in this calling.  He was proud of the fact that they were dealing with almost all the major jewellers in TNagar.  So like Robin Sharma talks about  Being the Best in wh...