India, Aug. 24 -- It's not often that you see a CTO take off his jacket with a flair, and on a peppy background music, at a keynote - only to reveal a new product-flashing t-shirt inside. But that's not the only fascinating and refreshing thing that happened at Cloudera's EVOLVE26 in Singapore. The interesting, and not co-incidental, was the part that he doffed his jacket just a hop away from Singapore's unique attraction- the 'Cloud Forest' at 'Gardens by the Bay'.

When one walks through this forest, one is amazed to see flora of multiple species blooming happily, and without conflicts, under one huge-happy-misty dome. So many herbs, so many shrubs, so many colours, so many sounds, so many trees and so many flowers - all co-habiting wit...