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This is the day 13 years ago, I joined IBM. My dear friend Senthil Chandramohan had an important role to play in bringing me from Minnesota to sunny California. 13 years in the same company in silicon valley might seem odd to most of millennial workers  but its pretty common for IBMers in the development lab where I work. So what are the reasons kept me at IBM last 13 years? The legacy - The company who invented the first dial recorder in 1888 which later became the foundation for Tabulating and recording devices. The history keeps repeating.  The Vision - 100+ years of visionary ideas and breakthrough in technology. Look at the vision, IBM researcher H. P. Luhn had in 1958 and what he envisions about a Business Intelligence System is so true and relevant even today.  Innovation - What IBM has given to the world starting from 1880 till today is unmatched. Invention of Tabulating machine for Census Beauro in 1890, the electronic recording machine in 1920s to...

Today IBM is announcing early access availability of BLU Acceleration for Cloud. Its a big deal for me and my team. We have been working extremely hard last few months to bring this easy to use analytic solution powered by BLU acceleration in the cloud. The cloud enables us to offer our Line of business users a solution using which they can create their warehouse (without any IT and DBA skills), load the data and get it up and running in less than an hour. No up-front cost or commitments, not need to depend on IT procurement, long approval, or hard to find cloud virtualization skills. Take a look at this introductory video and join early access preview at  http://bluforcloud.com/ Also, learn 7 big Ideas behind BLU Acceleration technology , which powers BLU Acceleration for Cloud. You can also join a Linkedin discussion group and start discussing your ideas, opinion and experiences.