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.
CloudBees Adds HA To Jenkins Enterprise Edition
CloudBees (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS company behind the Open Source Jenkins project, today announced that they are offering a high availability plugin to their Jenkins Enterprise product. They made this announcement at the Jenkins User Conference at New York City. This plugin will help in better uptime and improved governance/oversight along with increased productivity. [...]
IBM SmartCloud By The Numbers
IBM’s foray into public cloud services is through their IBM SmartCloud portfolio. It is targeted at enterprises wanting to move legacy applications into the cloud. It helps them optimize the IT costs and add organizational agility through self provisioning and other features. Yesterday, IBM announced some numbers on the SmartCloud which will give us some [...]
Flexiant Releases New Version Targeting The Service Provider Market
Flexiant yesterday announced the release of Flexiant 2.0, the updated and highly polished version of their cloud software. Flexiant is a UK based cloud software provider with their heritage from the hosting market. With this Flexiant is telling the world that they are a serious competitor in the Federated Cloud Ecosystem and they are going [...]
On The Issue Of Standardization Around AWS APIs
I am an vocal opponent of the idea of standardization around AWS API *at this point of time*. I think that it is too early to standardize and too risky especially when Amazon has not released the APIs under one of the open licenses like Creative Commons. Stephen O’Grady from Redmonk highlights the second part [...]
HP’s AWS Strategy
HP yesterday announced that they are releasing their public cloud in public beta. During the media blitz preceding the announcement, Zorowar Biri Singh SVP and GM for HP Cloud Services (disclosure: a friend of mine from before he joined HP) told Business Insider about how they plan to compete with AWS. He told them that [...]
Pervasive Software Wants To Put Utility In The Cloud Applications
Pervasive Software (previous CloudAve coverage), Austin based Data Integration company, had their user conference Pervasive IntegrationWorld 2012 last week to talk about their customer stories, roadmap, etc.. During my visit to the conference, I had an opportunity to see one of the prototypes they were showing off and got me excited. It is about a [...]
Google+ Hangouts On Air and SMBs
Yesterday Google unwrapped the Google+ Hangouts on Air to general public with relatively little fanfare. This is part of Google’s social strategy but the product has the potential to disrupt many startups in the space, especially the ones targeting consumers and SMBs. Google could flex their Youtube muscle to literally shove them away. Google+ hangouts [...]
Win A Free Ticket To Forecast 2012 Conference And/Or Deploycon 2012
Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) (previous CloudAve coverage) is running a conference called Forecast 2012 to shape the future of cloud computing. This is an enterprise focussed panel with some interesting keynotes and engaging panels. Check out the agenda for yourselves. ODCA has agreed to give away one ticket to the event for CloudAve readers. [...]
IBM PureApplication Systems: It Is Not PaaS. Period. But
IBM Impact has been going on at Las Vegas and the buzz around the event is IBM PureSystems. I see a lot of excitement around PureSystems both from IBM side and their customer side. However, I also see some confusion around the messaging. IBM has been sending ambiguous signals around IBM PureApplication Systems which is [...]
Red Hat Releases The Source Code For Openshift
Red Hat today announced that they are releasing the source code of their Openshift PaaS platform. Red Hat announced that Openshift is open source at the time of release but they didn’t release the source code till now. There are two reasons for this delay: Since Openshift came through Makara acquisition, it is important for [...]
CloudFoundry On OpenStack: PistonCloud Makes It A Reality
Remember BOSH? The open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and life cycle management of very large scale instances of Cloud Foundry, announced a few weeks back? They initially released it with support for VMware infrastructure and Amazon EC2. Since it was open source, there were expectations that others will build the necessary interface for [...]
Does Your Organization Face Data Obesity Problem?
Recently, I wrote a report for GigaOm Pro (behind Paywall) commemorating their Structure:Big Data conference and introduced a term which is going to hurt many organizations in a big way in the near future. I thought I will write about it here and get the thoughts of practitioners and vendors on the problem. In the world [...]
Tier 3′s Approach To PaaS
From time to time we add videos of services and products offered by vendors. Yesterday, I attended a local event where Jared Wray, CTO of Tier 3 (previous CloudAve coverage), talked about their approach to PaaS. I had my video camera handy and recorded it to share with public. Here is the video of his presentation. [...]
Salesforce Unveils Government Cloud
US Federal government is one of the largest IT buyers in the world and this clout gives them to dictate terms with the vendors and suppliers. One of their requirements is that the technologies the government agencies use must be compliant to Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements. In simplistic terms, the services offered by [...]
OpenStack Momentum Is Amazing
Last week I was at OpenStack Analyst Day held on the sidelines of OpenStack Design Summit and Conference at San Francisco. I had a chance to talk with OpenStack people, partners, developers and, even, some users. If I can sense something out of the conference, it is the excitement shared by the community and their [...]
