Krishnan Subramanian
Research Analyst
Krishnan Subramanian (a.k.a Krish) is the founder and Principal Analyst of Rishidot Research LLC. He was formerly an editor at CloudAve and now he is focussed only on Rishidot Research and Cloud Fieldnotes.
Hardware, Cloud And Cloud Washing
Yesterday, under the shadows of OSCON 2012, Portland based cloud cost management company Cloudability ran a future of cloud fireside chat in which myself and fellow CloudAve blogger and Analyst Ben Kepes participated. The chat was moderated by TechCrunch blogger Alex Williams. We discussed various topics and where the industry is heading. During our discussion, we [...]
Envisioning A Services Based Future
I have been arguing how the future of IT is going to be dominated by services around big data and have even proposed a model for the next generation of PaaS. I started thinking towards this direction after a chat I had with Mike Hoskins, CTO of Pervasive Software, when we met at the sidelines [...]
Microsoft’s “Modern” Office: Quick Thoughts
Microsoft (previous CloudAve coverage) today unveiled the new Office software with emphasis on Windows 8, Cloud and Social. They have built the new version of Office to take advantage of Windows 8 UI to offer touch and ink based gestures. The other interesting part was the Yammer integration with Sharepoint and Microsoft Dynamics. “We are [...]
Microsoft, Apprenda And Service Providers – An Analysis
Microsoft (previous CloudAve coverage) and Apprenda (previous CloudAve coverage) yesterday made some announcements focussing on service providers at #wpc12 and it generated lots of buzz in the tech community. Even though there were lot of talk about the VMware angle in the story and about Microsoft planning to push Azure as the cloud OS of [...]
Why Google Compute Engine Is The Right Move
Two weeks back at Google I/O, Google announced the release of their infrastructure services offering called Google Compute Engine. This is a pretty interesting move from Google who is late in the infrastructure game compared to Amazon Web Services or, even, Microsoft Azure. The last two weeks were filled with posts from pundits and I [...]
Microsoft, Apple And The Competition In The Post PC Era
After Microsoft announced their beautiful Surface tablet and positioned it as a tablet that bridges the gap with the PC, there was some discussions on whether we are heading into the post-PC world dominated by tablets or we are going to see a new form of device that is neither tablet nor PC. Some even [...]
Video: Forecast 2012 Panel On Cloud Transparency
Last month Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) held their first conference by name Forecast 2012. I had an opportunity to moderate a panel on Cloud Transparency. Cloud Transparency is still a new idea for people but a vital one needed to build the much needed trust for organizations wanting to move their workloads to cloud. [...]
Social Media Hysteria
Yesterday, after the Amazon outage, I tweeted a comment highlighting the difficulties faced by AWS customers (applicable, in general, to all public cloud customers) when there is an outage. It was a tweet meant to highlight how desperate the situation becomes for AWS customers as well as AWS employees. I compared the situation after such [...]
Cloupia Expands Beyond Flexpod As They Update Their Offerings
Cloupia (previous CloudAve coverage), the Santa Clara based company offering automation and orchestration solutions, announced last week that they are enhancing their product to meet the needs of today’s enterprises and, also, signaled their intent to move beyond Flexpod in the converged infrastructure space (see previous story about Cloupia Flexpod validation). Now their powerful orchestration [...]
Quick Thoughts On Microsoft Surface
Yesterday, Microsoft announced their tablet strategy with Microsoft Surface, a well designed tablet going head to head with iPad and Android Tablets. I thought I will add my quick thoughts on this announcement. In spite of all the positives about Surface, what stands out is that Microsoft is clueless about the availability and pricing. If [...]
Who Will Disrupt AWS?
Last week Amazon Web Services (previous CloudAve coverage) announced that they are lowering their support costs and also introducing a free plan. The AWS Support program just got even better! We have added features, lowered prices, and created a new free support plan that includes immediate access to customer service and technical support for AWS [...]
Microsoft Does It Right And Oracle Claims They Are Right
This week saw cloud related announcements from two software behemoths from the traditional era, Microsoft and Oracle. Microsoft rebooted Windows Azure making it more palatable to modern day developers and started playing nice on the interoperability game. Oracle re-announced their public cloud strategy and, in the process, tried to convince users that they should see [...]
AppFog, Apprenda And Azure: The Future Of PaaS Is Getting Defined
Three news from three different vendors came out today but they are interconnected with one another. More interestingly, this has the potential to redefine PaaS landscape empowering the end users by helping them avoid infrastructure lock-in. AppFog and Apprenda have announced interoperability with Windows Azure which itself is undergoing a revamp (you can learn more [...]
Intelligent Platforms – PaaS For The Internet Of Things
Recently, I travelled to India to give a talk at Cloud Connect conference in Bangalore. The talk is based on the Intelligent Platforms model I have been advocating in this space. It is similar to what I spoke at the Pitney Bowes Data Day event with little modifications. I have embedded the slides below. Intelligent [...]
Oracle PaaS Speculations
Oracle has scheduled a webcast this Wednesday where their CEO, Larry Ellison, and President, Mark Hurd, are going to make some announcements regarding Oracle Cloud and platinum support services. There are widespread expectations that Oracle will talk about their PaaS offerings, especially their pricing strategy around Java Cloud Service and Database Cloud Service. PCWorld has [...]
