Gartner Says SaaS Is Growing Big In Enterprise Application Software Markets
SaaS is slowly gaining adoption not just in the small and mid market range but also in big enterprises. According to a new Gartner report “Software as a Service 2009-2014″, the SaaS revenues within the enterprise software market will grow in 2010 by 14.1 percent from the 2009 revenues. In 2009, the revenues were $7.5 billion [...]
Amazon Takes Necessary Steps Towards Luring The Enterprises
Amazon Web Services is on a roll lately. They have been announcing variety of features, both big and small, and they even announced their datacenters in Asia-Pacific. Being a runaway leader in marketshare and poster boy for cloud computing, AWS has been receiving lot of positive press and some flak. Usually, the criticism is about [...]
Openstack Joins Cloud Audit
When Openstack project was announced on Monday, there were two reasons for my excitement. The foremost being its open source licensing with a potential to disrupt the industry. The second one was the tweets by Chris Hoff (@beaker) whose initial reaction was positive and his thinking that Openstack and CloudAudit can work together. Whether we [...]
OSCON Week: Microsoft And Interoperability
Using Microsoft and Interoperability in the same sentence makes me chuckle every time. Well, partly it could be due to my open source bias and I am not denying that. Off late, Microsoft has been making half-hearted attempts to embrace open source. I use the term “half-hearted” here because they do show some serious willingness [...]
When Startups Grow, They Also Grow Out Of The Cloud
More than one and a half years back, I made a tweet asking people When startups grow, do they stay in the cloud or move to their own datacenter? I got multiple responses with some saying that they will continue to stay in the cloud as they don’t have to incur Capex and they can [...]
OSCON Week: Cloud Summit
The highlight of this year’s OSCON is a stronger focus on issues related to cloud computing. This was evident from a full day event in the form of Cloud Summit on this topic. This event was organized by Simon Wardley, formerly of Canonical and now a researcher at Leading Edge Forum (CSC), and John Willis [...]
Google Buys Freebase – This is Huge
Today, Google shocked the pundit world by announcing that they have bought Metaweb, the company behind one of the largest structured database Freebase. Over time we’ve improved search by deepening our understanding of queries and web pages. The web isn’t merely words—it’s information about things in the real world, and understanding the relationships between real-world [...]
Why Windows Azure Is Not Available For On-Premise Deployments?
When Microsoft announced Windows Azure appliance few days back at PDC10, I was critical of their plans to sell the technology bundled with hardware from their partners. What I expected from Microsoft was the availability of Azure stack to be used with the existing infrastructure, something like what one can do with Eucalyptus, for example. [...]
The Planet Takes The First Step Towards Keeping Their Customers In Their Cloud
Around the time of Structure 2010, the leading hosting provider The Planet announced their plans for cloud based servers. Even though the news is somewhat old, I got a chance to talk to them only recently and I thought I will offer my thoughts in this post. Earlier, they offered what they call as Cloud [...]
SugarCRM Releases Sugar 6 And Ties Up With Cloud Vendors
SugarCRM, the open source CRM company founded in 2004, has announced the release of their latest version, Sugar 6. With this release, SugarCRM is trying to focus on making it easier and flexible for users to use CRM systems. In fact, many users are completely lost when it comes to using CRM. The complexity and [...]
After Dilly-Dallying For A While, Microsoft Jumps Into Private Cloud Business
After sending confusing signals for some time, Microsoft firmly jumps into Private Cloud game with their “Azure Appliance” announcement today at their Worldwide Partner Conference at Washington DC today. In June this year, I quoted an interview given by Bob Muglia to CNET and ranted that Microsoft’s use of the term cloud for a combination [...]
When You Can Innovate With browser, Why Do You Need Native Apps?
Browser based apps or native apps? I am going to harp on the same topic I touched yesterday again but from the desktop angle. I apologize if it appears to be repetitive but I want to drive home this point again. To begin with, let me give some background on the debate and go on [...]
Open Philosophy: Innovating Around Roadblocks
I have been advocating mobile apps over native apps in this space. In my opinion, mobile apps based on open standards help us overcome the restrictions thrown on our way with proprietary vendors wanting to influence control over their customers. Even though these restrictions are anti-competitive and, in some cases, goes against the very essence of [...]
Company Profile: Cloupia Jumps Into Crowded Private Cloud Space With Rich Features
Cloupia, a startup based in Santa Clara with a development center at Hyderabad, India, is another entrant in the crowded private cloud space. Founded by veterans from Cisco and other companies, they are trying to differentiate themselves with a rich set of features. The Cloupia Unified Service Platform is targeted towards enterprises, service providers and ISVs with complete [...]
Is SaaS Dead?
There is a meme going on in the tech world about whether SaaS has lost its charm and it is on the way to extinction. This is based on Gartner’s recently published report on the need to re-evaluate the rationale for SaaS. SaaS may not have delivered on its early grand promises – of the [...]
