A one-day conference on the challenges of scaling up from a single-server software development model to a multi-server model, titled “Scaling PHP in the Cloud”, is being held at the Dharmaram College, Christ University Campus, on July 9. The conference is being organised by Has Geek, a Bangalore-based organisation that conducts events for technology enthusiasts.
It is an event for hands-on programmers, with sessions conducted by other programmers on how they do it. The leading sessions will be from Flipkart on how they write and deploy software on the hundreds of machines that power their e-commerce website; Zynga on their use of Membase and on risk management; MobStac on how you can use Amazon EC2 to scale; and a number of other notable developers from the community.
For more information, call 99452-35123.
Cisco announces ECDS
Networking firm Cisco announced the Cisco Enterprise Content Delivery System (ECDS), a set of video distribution products that work together to address IT leaders' growing challenge of delivering the highest-quality live and on-demand video content to end-users anywhere, anytime.
Today, enterprise IT leaders are facing rapidly rising demand for video on already overloaded networks. ECDS provides a seamless way to manage the video load on the wide area network (WAN) and, at the same time, help control the cost of extending video applications across the organisation, a press release from the firm stated.
As a key video infrastructure component of the Cisco medianet architecture, ECDS consists of hardware appliances and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) virtual blade software. Network managers can flexibly deploy ECDS in any appliance-based or existing virtualised environment at almost any place in the network.
Gender inclusivity
A panel discussion on how companies can rebalance the workplace, was organised by the Diversity and Sustainability Office at HCL Technologies in collaboration with Nasscom.
The panel discussion touched upon key issues such as gender inequalities in the Indian corporate sector, inadequate number of women in the senior management and a quota system that will help companies rebalance gender ratios.
The panellists included eminent speakers from across sectors such as Lisa A. Donnelly (managing director) from Goldman Sachs, Geetha Kannan (consultant) from Diversity and Inclusion (D&I), Venkat Pullela (senior director) from Cisco Systems, Sucharita Eashwar (regional director) from Nasscom and Satish Chandrasekaran (senior vice-president) from HCL Technologies.
