Author name: Pavan Gumaste

Pavan Rao is a programmer / Developer by Profession and Cloud Computing Professional by choice with in-depth knowledge in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform. He helps the organisation figure out what to build, ensure successful delivery, and incorporate user learning to improve the strategy and product further.

Business Continuity plans(BCP) and Chennai floods

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In wake of the incessant rains in south India and the resultant flooding organizations had to put their ‘business continuity plans’ (BCP) into action. No sooner did the rains lash the relatively dry area did the city know of a new natural disaster that was getting unleashed. Coping with this new type of natural disaster required a BCP (business continuity plans) for most organizations in Chennai. What is BCP? ‘Business continuity’ may be an InfoSec professional’s domain of expertise but it was the need of the hour in Chennai. ‘Business continuity’ is planning to continue businesses at another location after disaster […]

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Tor – The Onion Router

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Social media keeps us all firmly wrapped in its arms and life is as usual on the net oblivious to the many “virtual eyes”. Customer data is another new gold and grabbing it is the necessity of the day. “Deep web” or the “Dark net” is the place where there is no Internet surveillance. The “Deep web” was earlier only associated with criminal activities but that may be changing with a new set of extremely privacy conscious individuals who also seek anonymity while surfing. This is possible with browsers like Tor, Freenet, I2P and Tails. In addition, ‘The Deep web’

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MongoDB: The Benefits of Hiring Top Remote DBA Experts

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NoSQL solutions like MongoDB are gaining popularity over traditional table-based relational database management systems (RDBMS) like MySQL. The greatest benefits of NoSQL over RDBMS are: With RDBMS, you need a string in the query language (SQL or Structured Query Language) parsed by the DB system. This is dangerous as it exposes your database to SQL injection attacks. NoSQL, on the other hand, is object-oriented, meaning you pass a document with an explanation of what you are querying. There is no parsing. You will not be responsible for defining the schema when using NoSQL like MongoDB. You only need to drop

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Data warehousing concepts

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Long before Hadoop and Big Data made a big splash on the IT stage, the necessity for “Data warehouses” was growing in the business world. There was disparate data on Excel sheets, flat files, data bases and there was no single understanding of this data. We have seen all this and more in our previous blog post. “Data warehouses” were created and a well designed data warehouse comprised of cleaned data from different sources that enables an organization to make critical business decisions.  We dig deeper into Data warehousing by discussing the Father of Data warehousing followed by the different

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Whizlabs Announces Six Sigma Black Belt Online Course

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With carrying over 14 years of experience in the Technology and Project Management fraternity, Whizlabs is a renowned global leader that offers online courses and certification programmes to more than 2 million users till now. The mission statement of Whizlabs clearly states: ‘To get everyone certified nobody left out’. Since its existence from over a decade and a half ago, every possible effort is being made to offer certification programme in several domains viz. Oracle Java, Project Management, Big Data and Apache Hadoop Online Course along with Six Sigma certifications. Amongst the aforesaid, Whizlabs has launched a certification programme in

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Net Neutrality in India – what will happen?

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Now that ‘Net Neutrality’ or ‘NN’ is on everyone’s mind and it is creating a flurry of outbursts and supporters, this post aims to provide a brief overview of what is meant by net neutrality and what will happen if it is not enforced. The term ‘Net Neutrality’ itself was created by Tim Wu, a Columbia University professor in 2003(who wouldn’t have dreamt that it would be the point of high interest worldwide!) Overview: The whole debate on net neutrality began in earnest in India when one of the big   telecom companies decided to charge more for consumers using Skype

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Mobile security

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Look around you and you will see the world crouching and twiddling its thumbs on a rectangular electronic device or speaking on a bigger than normal handset with a faraway look- the “smart phone”! No longer is the phone just considered a “phone” for oral communication purposes but it is used for other purposes as well – like bill payment, online shopping, chatting, social networking, instant messaging, playing games and so on. “Smart phones” or “mobiles” have become cheap and much more affordable enabling the world to slowly but surely move from a strictly desktop society to a more mobile

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‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) – Bane or Boon?

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The Internet age has helped us tackle the mundane activities of paying bills, traditional shopping, making reservations all seem easy. Whether it is checking weather forecasts or stock prices – they are now performed by the click of a mouse without physically leaving the desk. This shows the true power of the Internet age. Our day-to-day life has become much easier and standing in queues, jostling through the crowds and the traffic has become passé for these activities. To add to all this luxury, now just imagine a world of smart homes with smart doors(amongst other things) and smart appliances

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Whizlabs Announces Six Sigma Green Belt Online Course

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Acclaimed as the global leader in providing professional certifications courses in Technology and Project Management domains to participants across 125+ countries over a period of 16 years, Whizlabs has catered to the needs of over 2 million users. Looking at the ever-increasing demand for certified set of professionals this initiative was taken-up a decade and a half ago. Going by its mission statement -“To get everyone certified nobody left out”, Whizlabs has recently announced yet another certification course under the Six Sigma Certification category. Just like any other certification, Six Sigma is a quality certification course that certifies the confirmation

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Information Security program for organizations– is it necessary?

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In an age when most of us spend most of our time online, a great amount of business and personal information is being generated. ‘Information Security’ is defined as securing that business or personal information by using varied programs, software and concepts. ‘Information is power’ goes the popular adage and securing it in today’s world is one of the most pressing issues facing InfoSec professionals today. In the current business scenario, “security” should never be an afterthought and should always be incorporated into the corporate strategy according to the size of the organization. For most of us, unknowingly, security is

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