FAonDemand News Letter August 2008

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August 2008

Volume 8

Visit us at Oracle Open World 2008

Come and visit us at Booth 335 (Moscone South).

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Acrophobias Stay Away.
Want to know how it feels to look down Grand Caynon suspended on a glass bridge!. >>

Fun Facts!
Why does wet fabric appear darker?
When fabric gets wet, light coming towards it refracts within the water, dispersing the light. In addition, the surface of the water causes incoherent light scattering. The combination of these two effects causes less light to reflect to your eyes and makes the wet fabric appear darker

Cloud Computing Basics

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) IaaS clouds make it very easy and affordable to provision resources such as servers, connections, storage, and related tools necessary to build an application environment from scratch on-demand. IaaS clouds are the underlying infrastructure of PaaS and SaaS clouds. A common characteristic of IaaS clouds is that they are more complex to work with but with that complexity comes a high degree of flexibility.>>

Comparison Of Cloud Computing Services

InfoWorld’s Peter Wayner delves into the ill-defined realm of ‘cloud computing’, providing a deeper look at four shared services: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, GoGrid, and AppNexus. Offering wildly divergent amounts of hand-holding at various layers in the stack, the services simplify your workload but force you into a set, ‘ball-and-chain-computing’ routine that you may not prefer. Sure, the services allow you to pull CPU cycles from thin air whenever you need to, but they can’t solve the deepest problems that make it hard for applications to scale gracefully, Wayner writes.>>

YASE- Yet Another Search Engine

Cuil (pronounced "cool"), a new search engine created by former Google (NSDQ:GOOG) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) veterans, may succeed where others have failed and give powerhouse Google a run for its money.>>

Customer Highlight - Kriyari

Looking for a special item to buy on the Net?

The Kriyari network powers Web 2.0 style online malls for media, lifestyle, content and social network publisher sites. The network populates the malls with live and interactive storefronts generated from major online stores and brands. Consumers experience a very different browse and discover shopping – one in which the mall dynamically adapts to the consumer’s shopping theme and product interest.>>

About FAonDemand

FAonDemand® provides integrated Business Process (BP) and Information Technology (IT) services in areas of Finance & Accounting, OnDemand Applications such as Oracle, Salesforce.com, Sugar CRM, NetSuite, UBmatrix, Business Objects (NSite, Crystal Reports, Business Intelligence On Demand), and Adaptive Planning. With industry best practices and an onsite, onshore and offshore blended, On Demand, services model, FAonDemand has delivered significant (30-50%) and sustainable savings to its customers.