Cloud Computing And Android Apps For The Indian

Dr. Sanjay Chitnis Prayukti Solutions Sanjay dot chitnis at gmail

Cloud computing with access from smartphones/netbooks is now a reality

Micro-IT revolution is in the making (just like micro finance) with Apps for multiple mobile platforms, notably for Google Android enabling to do “almost anything”!

Micro does not mean cheap, it means doing wonderful computing at affordable cost

Indian masses can use the computing power on-the-go to take our standard of living and of life to the next level

There is potential for collaboration across various sections of society to enable micro-IT revolution

Providing IT services in “micro” chunks

The needs do not substantiate use of conventional computers

Sporadic need

No expertise to manage

.

There are other micros than microfinance/ microblogging

Microlearning

162 million smartphones sold in 2008

surpasses notebook sales for the first time (Source: Informa)

about Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs)

“ half computers”?

How many need full computers anyway?

Are they only for use on the move?

Connectivity is expensive?

Connectivity for Kindle: Included for life

As a Municipal utility

(Source: Wakoopa.com) Indicates action is out there!

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers“ (misquoted for Thomas J Watson)

Is becoming true today:

“ Around 20 per cent of all the servers sold around the world each year are now being bought by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Amazon.” (Source: Microsoft research chief Rick Rashid)

Cloud: Ecosystem Packaged Apps

an area that contains organisms interacting with one another and their non-living environment.

Symbiotic relationships

Competition

Plants: Information generators

Birds/Animals: Information consumers

Bacteria: Startups 

Scavengers?

Non-living environment: Humans 

Ecosystems can be of any size

Forest: Internet Cloud

Meadow: hybrid Cloud (with migratory birds)

Log: Private Cloud

“” if the cloud overloads (or goes down), users can outsource CPU cycles to a different cloud. IBM and Juniper Networks will demonstrate how a hybrid cloud could allow enterprises to seamlessly extend their private clouds to remote servers in a secure public cloud, as high priority applications are given preference over the lower priority ones when resources become constrained... Once installed, IBM and Juniper could seamlessly roll client workloads from Beijing to Silicon Valley to Sao Paulo to ensure that clients never miss a service level agreement.”

(From: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=707508 )

(Source: Markus Klems Blog based on Merrill Lynch report)

RICHARD STALLMAN

LARRY ELLISON

simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time.

"It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign”

includes everything that we already do

"fashion-driven" and "complete gibberish".

Even free software has significant cost of ownership And sometimes just not feasible due to technical needs

GOOD FOR CLOUD

GOOD FOR PACKAGED APPS

Reusability

Scalability

Manageability/ Maintainability

Cost

Support Niche market segments

Anywhere usability

Reliability (??)

Security (managed applications)

Privacy

Ownership

Testability

Availability (??)

Security (??)

Performance (??)

Both forms will coexist for long time to come

Web 2.0, 3.0, …..

Virtualization

SOA

Grid Computing

Source: Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0

On demand licensing

Central Management

Network access

Can be provided from ‘portal’ (Web 1.0)

Suitable for commodity apps?

Implementations typically include the following layered components:

Service level agreements (optional)

Utility computing billing (eg per instance hour)

Platform virtualization environment for running client specified virtual machines

Computer hardware (typically set up as a grid for massive horizontal scalability)

Computer network (including firewalls, load balancing, etc.)

Internet connectivity

(Source Wikipedia)

Shared Mobile, MID, Thin clients, Browsers (Adapted from Wikipedia)

support the complete life cycle of building and delivering web applications and services

Data Mashups

Service Mashups

Combines services from multiple clouds

ReferMyFriend links salesforce to facebook

Has facebook app

(Source: Nova Spivack)

From a network of separately siloed applications and content repositories to a more seamless and interoperable whole.

Ubiquitous connectivity, broadband adoption, mobile Internet access and mobile devices;

network computing , software-as-a-service business models, Web services interoperability, distributed computing, grid computing and cloud computing;

Open technologies , open APIs and protocols, open data formats, open-source software platforms and open data (e.g. Creative Commons, Open Data License);

Open identity , OpenID, open reputation, roaming portable identity and personal data;

The intelligent web , Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, GRDDL, semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores;

Distributed databases , the "World Wide Database" (enabled by Semantic Web technologies); and

Intelligent applications , natural language processing[2], machine learning, machine reasoning, autonomous agents.[3]

Symbian

Win Mobile

LiMo

BlackBerry OS

Apple’s OS X iPhone

Android

Palm’s Web OS

Let’s face it, the cloud is the future, and while Apple has struggled (cough- MobileMe -cough) with that future, Google owns it . Google Search. Gmail. gCal. Google Docs. Google Maps. YouTube. Knol. Chrome . And the list goes on and on (and on).

If they can flip the switch and truly, seamlessly integrate everything, not only between applications but across desktop, laptop, and handset, it will make for perhaps the most compelling offering ever on the market.

(Source: theiphoneblog)

Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of components

Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices

Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine

Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional)

SQLite for structured data storage

Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)

GSM Telephony (hardware dependent)

Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and WiFi (hardware dependent)

Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware dependent)

Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for the Eclipse IDE

(Source: Android dev guide)

Activity: a single screen

Service: code that is long-lived and runs without a UI (E.g. Media Player)

Intent Receiver: Executes in reaction to an external event such as Phone Ring

Content Provider: an application's data to be shared with other applications

Only the masses know!

Let the market place decide

Collaboration between potential users, academics and industry to get clarity into how to direct the micro-IT revolution

How do needs of Indian masses are special and difference compared to current smartphone owning Elite.

Specific case studies of current applications

What more may be needed (discussion)

These will be submitted to google for future releases

Aayah/Child Caretaker

Use Cases

Logistics Management

Subcontract/Services Management

Invitations, RSVP management

Good Hosting

Ceremonies

Gifts, Blessings

Social Chatter, interaction, Tweets

Knowledge sharing 

Taking care of emergencies

Cloud computing with access from smartphones/netbooks is now a reality

Micro-IT revolution is in the making (just like micro finance) with Apps for multiple mobile platforms, notably for Google Android enabling to do “almost anything”!