This book would not have been possible without my wife Priya, who supported me on all those weekends and managed my work and life together. I would like to thank my children, Pritika and Vishnu, my mother Saraswathiamma, and my brother Reji for supporting my efforts in writing this book. I also thank my co-author and dear friend, Jaswant Singh for his contribution, support, and confidence throughout the writing process.

Jaswant Singh brings over 16 years of experience as an Executive Information Technologist with multiple industry verticals. Jaswant presently assists Fortune 1000 CXOs in creating, implementing, and managing technology strategy and roadmaps to gain efficiencies over existing capabilities and build new capabilities economically. As a CTO, he has co-founded Suchna!, a web portal linking people worldwide.

Jaswant has expertise in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), cloud computing, big data, middleware technologies, and web architectures. He is also an expert in Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR), Data Center migration and consolidation, and web applications security. He is known for building and leveraging cross-functional working relationships, mentoring, and problem solving for large global multi-organization environments across Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America.

Jaswant has been a recognized industry leader on emerging technologies at various professional trade conferences, companies, and educational institutes. He has been bestowed upon with various awards for outstanding performance, top talent, technological innovations, and technical publications. Jaswant blogs at http://techblog.baghel.com.

Jaswant received his CIO Certification from Federal CIO University, General Services Administration, United States. He received his M.S. degree in Technology Management from School of Management, George Mason University, and his M.S. degree in Mathematics with specialization in Operations Research and Statistics from Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He served as the President of a cultural student body at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.