Anshu Sharma
Vice President of product management & strategy at salesforce.com across applications and platfrom. Previously founded and led Oracle SaaS Platform, and held engineering and product management roles in SOA and Identity Management. Anshu has a B. Tech. (Honors) and M.S. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill respectively. Read his blog here.
Clouds in Boxes – Super Size It – Want Storage and Servers With That?
I was absolutely mesmerized by Larry Ellison’s keynote at Oracle Open World – the winning of the America’s Cup was one of the best short films I have seen. And just as I thought this could be fun, the keynote started with Larry defining Cloud Computing…
Desktopless World: Is Your Email Signature Stuck in Desktop Era?
The world is changing to mobile. Are your email signatures and etiquettes keeping pace? I have been emailing my close friends, one friend at a time, on how their email signatures need to evolve and thought a blog post was over due. But then I came across an excellent post from the GigaOm network by [...]
The Linchpin and The New Polymath – The Indispensable Individuals and Organizations
One of my favorite books of the year is the Linchpin by Seth Godin – it takes you on a journey from how our economy has evolved to a point where its neither necessary nor optimal for you to be a cog in the wheel of a faceless system that treats you as …
VMforce: Why? What? How?
There are a few questions every CIO, developer and business user will ask about VMForce: What is VMforce? Why does it matter to me? How will it work? Will it help me build new kinds of apps that are social and mobile? In simple terms, VMforce service will allow every Java developer to write applications [...]
Life Lessons from Warren Buffett Letter and Seth Godin’s Linchpin
I am an avid fan of Warren Buffett letters, and today is my lucky day because we have a new annual letter. And it comes with not just the update for the year but for the benefit of the new shareholders (due to partial stock deal in acquiring the Rail c…
Days of Our Lives – On IIT Life, Indian Education, and Geekdom
Like to wish all my readers, a very warm happy holidays and merry Christmas. I don’t watch a lot of Bollywood cinema but yesterday I went with friends to go see 3 Idiots – a movie about lives of 3 engineering college students during the four years in s…
Imagining India with Nilekani of Infosys
I am on a 2 week annual vacation to India. I have often written about seismic changes in Indian reality, realty and perceptions. On this trip, I came across Nandan Nilekani’s book – Imagining India. A thick tome but a book that captures how India has t…
Weird Myths in Business – Guest Post by Steve Greene
One of the reasons its fun to work at salesforce.com is the extremely creative, talented people that are willing to question absurdities that other companies quietly accept.
Steve Greene, a colleague and our vice president of program management and A…
Windows 7 Year Gap and Why They Can’t Catch Up
Finally, Windows 7 is out and reviews are mixed but better than Vista – generally seen as vast improvement over Vista (which was accepted by Steve Ballmer as work in progress or worse). But this is not what this post is about. Even if Microsoft built p…
Cloud Computing is Difficult For CEOs To Understand
Over the last week, there has been a resurgence in problems very intelligent people are having with the term ‘Cloud Computing ‘. This problem is likely to worsen this week. So, what’s going on ?Upton Sinclair used to say- “It is difficult to get a man …
