ThoughtWorks, Nasscom host second Webinar in Master Class Series

Bangalore: ThoughtWorks, in association with Nasscom, hosted the Master Class Series of Webinars on May 13th 2009, for the second time in two months. The event was a great success with close to 300 attendees ranging from software developers, project managers, quality analysts, database administrators and senior technical team leads. Over 1200 people registered for this interactive webinar to hear more about the new computing paradigm - Cloud Computing.

Cloud computing has brought about a new approach to developing, deploying and managing applications at scale. With its unique and efficient on-demand and elastic capabilities it can level the playing field for companies from start-ups to large corporations.

The speaker of this Webinar, Viswanathan K, who was most recently Vice President of Engineering and CIO at Yahoo! India R&D said, "This is an exciting phase for new technologies such as Cloud Computing and I am thrilled with the response to this webinar and the interest shown by the Indian developer community." He has over 20 years experience in the IT industry in Internet, Brokerage, Financial Services and Telecom verticals. About 14 years of his professional career was spent in the US working for large multinationals.

Some of the topics that were covered:

* How to significantly compress the time taken to build and deploy Internet scale applications.
* How companies can re-wire or transform their technologies, which in turn can help businesses develop game changing products and services.
* How this transformation can eventually lead to new business models.
* Challenges in this new model and change in paradigm.
* Why companies are investing a lot of effort in research.
* How innovation in the open source community will help drive change.

The Master Class webinar series is a monthly event featuring leaders from the IT industry. This series is a great way for you to interact with industry experts on various topics of interest.