The Author Profile Dr. Pethuru Raj has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro   Technologies, Bangalore. On the educational front, armed with the competitive UGC research fellowship,   he could proceed with his research activities and was awarded the prestigious PhD degree by Anna   University, Chennai, India. He then could acquire the meritorious CSIR fellowship to work as a postdoctoral   researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA), Indian Institute of Science (IISc),   Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST)   to work as a research scientist for 3 years in two leading Japanese universities. Dr. Raj also had a fruitful   stint as a lead architect in the corporate research (CR) division of Robert Bosch, India, for 1.5 years.    Dr. Raj has more than 12 years of IT industry experience. Primarily, he has been a technical architect and   currently he is providing technology advisory services for worldwide business behemoths on the   transformation capabilities of enterprise architecture (EA) in synchronization with some of the emerging   technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) / Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) / Machine-to-Machine   (M2M) Integration, Big Data, Cloud and Service Computing paradigms, Real-time Analytics of Big data   using Cloud-based NoSQL databases, Hadoop framework, etc. and Mobility. He has made use of the   opportunities that came on his way to focus on a few business domains, including telecommunication,   retail, government, energy, and health care.   Dr. Raj has contributed book chapters for a number of technology books that were edited by internationally   acclaimed professors and published by leading publishing houses. Currently he is writing a comprehensive   book with the title “The Internet of Things (IoT) Technologies for the Envisioned Smarter Planet” for a   world-leading book house. The CRC Press, USA has just released his book on “Cloud Enterprise   Architecture” and you can find the book details in the page http://www.peterindia.net/Peterbookpage.html.    The  Author Pethuru Raj PhD Enterprise Architecture (EA) Consultant Wipro Technologies Bangalore, India Email: peterindia@gmail.com