Acknowledgement

Next Generation IT Architecture – A compendium of technical articles on future IT architecture was a ‘dream come true’ for the editors and authors. This project would not have been possible without the immense support of Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO, Infosys Technologies Ltd. We are highly grateful to T. V. Mohandas Pai, Director and Head – Administration, E&R, Finacle, HRD & ILI for his encouragement and support.

We also would like to thank Srikantan Moorthy, Senior VP and Head – Education & Research for his constant support throughout this project.

We would like to thank Prof. Sheel Nuna, Director – South Asia, Queensland University of Technology for his help on the expert speak column. We are grateful to Prasad Joshi, VP, SETLabs, Naveen Kumar, Principal Technology Architect, MTC, Jitendra Pal Thethi, Principal Technology Architect, MTC, Gnanapriya, Associate VP and Technology Focus Group Head, CME for their help on the expert speak column. Special thanks are due to Krishnamoorthy Ananthasivam (Kichu), VP and Delivery Head, RETL for his motivation and support. We would like to thank Sridhara N. R., Head, Corporate Quality Audits for the Connect Architecture initiative support

Rajasimha S, Principal – Brand Experience Design, CDG and Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan, Senior Creative Design Lead, CDG have contributed to this project. Their timely and valuable support in graphic and template design has helped us tremendously. Our sincere thanks to Sarma KVRS, Lead Principal, E&R for his help and support on Intellectual Property related details. Thanks are due to Chandan Malu, Manoj Deshmukh, Nitin KL and Mahalakshmi who helped in previewing the manuscripts. We would like to acknowledge the timely help from Sanjay Purohit, VP and Group Head – Corporate Planning, Aditya Nath Jha, AVP and his Corporate Marketing team. We would also like to acknowledge the timely help from Shobhit Agarwal, AVP, Commercial and his purchase and procurement team for their help.

Special thanks are due to the entire team at Pearson including Srinivasan, Publishing Manager, Thomas Mathew Rajesh, Editorial Director and Sojan Jose, Acquisition Editor for working closely with us for releasing this compendium on time.