Walk down the Cloud Avenue with us

On monday, a new blog dedicated exclusively for cloud computing, called Cloud Avenue, will be launched. I am joining the team of bloggers from all over the world, including Zoli Erdos and Ben Kepes. Zoli has written a detailed post about this new initiative. Zoho, a major player in the SaaS, is sponsoring the blog totally and there will be no ads on it. Even though Zoho is sponsoring the blog, we, the editors, will have full independence and we will be critical of any shortcomings we see in Zoho, just like any other company in the marketplace.

I am pretty excited about this blog as it gives me an opportunity to write about hot topics that are pushing the envelope of computing to a whole new level. Even though this blog is more about opensource, I have written a few posts on the topic of cloud computing. Now I will write about cloud computing exclusively on the new blog and use this blog to talk about issues related to opensource. I am also excited about working with Zoho folks as they are a company with a base in my home town (in India). I have bumped into Zoli on and off at various blogs, social networks, etc.. This is the first time I will be working closely with him. It was a great pleasure to get introduced to Ben and other folks in the Cloud Avenue team. The most interesting part is that we are spread all over the world and we use the SaaS apps to collaborate and diminish any effect of this geographic distribution. This is the advantage we can derive by moving the computing away from our desktop to the clouds. I am pretty sure this team will make Cloud Avenue a one stop shop for everything cloud computing.

I also want to point out that our company in India consults clients on the advantages of moving their operations to cloud. We have seen how small businesses in India and Asia-Pacific regions have benefited from cloud computing. The experience I gain(ed), by being part of the team working in India, will also help me refine my posts but I will not promote anything that will benefit our company in my posts on the Cloud Avenue blog.

The blog will be launched on monday but it shouldn’t stop you from subscribing to the feed today itself. Come on over and walk with us down the Cloud Avenue.

Update: The site is live now.