Many thanks to S.D.M College of Engg & Tech's Management, Principal - Dr. S. Mohan Kumar, Head - CSE - Prof. J V Vadavi and Prof. Dr. U P Kulkarni, Prof. Ravindra G Dastikop who permitted me to attend this 2-week AICTE sponsored Staff Development Programme on "Openstack, Eucalyptus -
Setting up Private cloud for Academic Institutions" from Jun 3rd to Jun15th
at K.S.R College of Technology, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, India.
Many thanks to the Management of K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, Lion Dr K S Rangasamy - MJF, Founder & Chairman, KSR Group of Institutions, Mr. R Srinivasan - Secretary, KSR Group, Dr. K Thyagarajah - Principal, Dr. R Sasikala, H.O.D, Prof. Balu and Prof. Shaktivelu of Department of Information Technology for conducting such an excellent workshop.
Many thanks to AICTE, Govt. of INDIA for sponsoring this workshop. It was totally free - registration, travel expenses, accommodation, kit, lunch.
The sessions (demo + hands-on) were on:
Day - 1 & 2:
Introduction on Private Cloud for Academic Institutions by Mr. Rajgopalan Vardhan, Founder & Head, EDcellence, Chennai.
Virtualization Technologies, Open Source tools like Meghdoot by Mr. S Kailash, CDAC, Chennai -
Sessions on VMware , Virtual Box
Day - 3 & 4:
Session on Xen Apps by Mr. Bala & Mr. Vignesh - IITM interns.
Day 5:
Session on Openstack - by Mr. Marimuttu, NITK, Surathkal.
Day 6:
Session on Mongo DB - by Dr. Sasikala, Head of IT Dept, KSR College.
Day 7 & 8:
Session on Hadoop by Mr. Senthil of Cognizant. This was excellent session compared to all other sessions.
It was demo and hands-on.
Day 9:
Session on Openstack & Eucalyptus - Subbanna & Karthik,NITK, Surathkal.
Day 10 & 11:
Session on Cloudstack and Google App Engine - by Madhan, Revathy, Deepak of Infosys.
Day 12:
Session on HBase: by Prof. Senthil.
Also had a demonstration of LabVIEW System Design Software
Many thanks to my room-mates Prof. Elango and Prof. Seetharaman for being a great company.
Many thanks to all the participants of Tamil Nadu, who created a very friendly atmosphere during my 2-weeks stay at Tamil Nadu:
Prof. Sudhakaran,
Prof. Bala Karthikeyan,
Prof. Sarvanan,
Prof. Srinu,
Prof. Dharmaprakash,
Prof. M.Saravana Karthikeyan,
Prof. Karthikeyan,
Prof. Vishal,
Prof. Rajeshwari madam, and others.
A Google group is created for these participants @ ksrcloudaicte2013@googlegroups.com by Prof. N Vijayraj
Visited Madhurai, Ramesharam and Ardhanareeshawaram and many other temples during my stay.
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