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 host access and thus still do a fair amount of work on the Web-to-host fronts. Working with host integration it was inevitable that I would end up having to master XML Web services. This, as reflected by my last two books, has led me to do more and more work on Web services, particularly in relationship to corporate portals.

Given IBM’s involvement it was destined that I would end up looking at autonomic computing and grid computing technologies. I started to write a book on these technologies but realized that this information is too dynamic to be of use in book form.  So I try and get it out in Web form on "IT In-Depth" and in print in where I can.

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 five 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