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 [...]
EMC Shows That It Understands Enterprise BI/Big Data Game With Greenplum Acquisition
Today EMC surprised the industry with its announcement that it is acquiring the privately held California based Greenplum Inc., a leading player in data warehousing space with a successful big data platform with superior business analytics. EMC is planning to use this acquisition to form a new data computing product division within EMC’s Information Infrastructure [...]
Are We Ready To Write Obituary For eBook Readers?
Ever since iPad was released, there are murmurs about the eventual death of specialized ebook readers. Already, we saw some of the much hyped ebook readers going down the drain. With the release of iPad, people are slowly realizing the usefulness of multifunction devices over specialized devices just for reading ebooks. The e-Ink technology of ebook readers [...]
Cloud Computing On The Way To Gain Some Traction In The European Market
European industry is very slow to adopting cloud computing compared to their counterparts in US. In my previous posts about the European scene, I have pointed out to the lackluster adoption by the European organizations. I asked them about the European cloud market and what kind of traction they are seeing in the market. Christoph told me [...]
Spiceworks Reaching Out To Cloud Players
Spiceworks, the provider of IT Management software for small and medium businesses, has announced a new partner program with which they are reaching out to cloud vendors to let their users use Spiceworks management interface to manage their cloud services. With supposedly 1,000,000 IT professionals from SMB sector using their software, this presents a good opportunity [...]
iTunes On The Cloud Is A Necessity
Today, tech world was going gaga based on a rumor that Apple might move iTunes to the cloud and offer wireless syncing between the devices. According to Boy Genius Report, the new capabilities are broken down into three groups. Streaming music and movies from Apple’s servers to your computers, devices, etc. Streaming music and movies from [...]
Scaleup Offers Regional Cloud Storage
Scaleup Technologies, the germany based cloud provider, is offering an Amazon S3 like storage solution with data residing inside Germany (See previous Cloud Ave coverage of Scaleup here). I have been long advocating that consolidation of IaaS players will not happen due to the diversity in the world and their diverse requirements. Especially in Europe, [...]
Hadoop Summit: Appistry Targets HDFS Market
Appistry, the platform player based out of St. Louis, is positioning itself to target companies considering HDFS (See our previous coverage of Appistry here). Yesterday, Yahoo hosted Hadoop Summit 2010. Appistry made an announcement about some strategic alliances they have built with some of the important players in the Hadoop ecosystem. It is pretty clear [...]
Cisco Just Kicked iPad Out of Enterprise Market With Cisco Cius
Cisco Live is going on at Las vegas and I just watched the keynote by John Chambers, their CEO. The turn around by Cisco is impressive and they are really onto something with their video strategy. Today Cisco announced their new tablet strategy bringing telepresence to the reach of Joes and Janes like myself and [...]
Structure 2010: Public-Private Cloud Flareups
Last week GigaOm organized the third edition of their famous Structure conference. This is one of my favorite conferences because of their focus on Infrastructure topics. Unfortunately, I had to drop out in the last moment as I went down due to a viral attack. Still I managed to catch up with the sessions live [...]
Northscale Pushes Open Source Membase Into The Crowded NoSQL Market
Northscale, the company founded by leaders of open source Memcached project, yesterday announced that they have joined with Zynga and NHN (a Korea based game and search services company) to establish the open source Membase project (See our previous coverage of Northscale here). Membase is an elastic NoSQL database that is fully compatible with Memcached. This [...]
Eucalyptus Now Supports Windows Virtual Machines
Eucalyptus Systems, the open source academic project now shaking the private cloud market, has taken another step to go deep in the enterprise cloud market (See Cloud Ave’s previous coverage of Eucalyptus here). Last year, I wrote a post about the release of Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition and I pointed out how it makes interoperability between [...]
