Welcome to my Web site. I am Anura Gurugé -- and most people just call me  'Anu'.

This site portrays my professional activities and academic interests. On the professional front the six broad categories of work that I am involved with are:

   1. high-tech consulting & analysis

   2. technical writing for corporations &
       publications

   3. publisher & editor at large of "IT In-Depth"

   4. teaching

   5. Web site design and implementation

Big IBM systems (in which I have dabbled in since 1974) continue to be my first love when it comes to IT. Consequently I focus on large data center issues. Given my legacy as “Mr. SNA,” I can’t really get away from large data center related topics.

In July 2008, my academic interests (a.k.a. 'my hobby') got a bit more prominence with the publication of my first non-IT book: "Popes and the Tale of Their Names." [Read review by Catholic News Agency.] That I was very interested in Church history and Cathedrals was never a secret -- particularly on this Web site. After five dense books on technology, that I would write my sixth on papal history is somewhat of a departure from the norm. But it was exciting. It was a rare opportunity to do some original research. In my mid-50s I have to concede that I am, per family tradition, a workaholic. So if there is a lull in IT work, as is increasingly the case, I have to keep myself occupied with something ... and that has become papal history. I now have a few papal history related BLOGs. If you are interested start with this one. They are all listed in the LINKS page.

The primary technology areas that I now deal with can be summarized as being:

	►	large data center issues	►	mainframe-centric solutions
	►	XML Web services	►	grid computing
	►	Web-to-host and EAI	►	corporate portals
	►	IBM POWER5-based solutions	►	open source initiatives

For more details of my background and activities please go to the “Biography” page on this Web site.

Here are the seven books I have written to-date. I edited a few more but you can find those on Amazon etc. You can get details on these books and even order them directly from  the Amazon "box" below. Go to the "Documents" page on this Web for some of my other publications.

2004. 384 pages		2002. 332 pages		1999. 428 pages
1996. 604 pages		1984. 568 pages		Russian version of Portals book, 2004
2008. 168 pages		2008. 40 pages