Solve Your Scaling Problem With Scalr
Scalr, the Palo Alto based cloud startup, focuses on solving one problem and does it well. This service makes your scaling problem go away. Scalr is the low cost, open source alternative to Rightscale, the leading cloud broker used by companies wanting to use cloud infrastructure. Along with scaling, Scalr also takes care of fault [...]
Jitterbit Moves Their Integration Platform To Clouds
Image via CrunchBase Jitterbit, founded in 2004, offers integration solutions to enterprises ever since they released their first integration product in 2006. Last week, they announced the support for Jitterbit on Amazon EC2. Basically, their users can now pick up the Jitterbit AMI and run the integration platform on Amazon Web Services. [...]
Rainstor Addresses Data Retention And Retrieval Needs For Big Data
Rainstor, formerly from UK with the name Clearspace Software Ltd., is announcing the release of new version of their product called Rainstor 4. With this release, the currently San Francisco based company is positioning themselves as a big player in the data retention and retrieval market for Big Data. With their expertise in online information [...]
AT&T’s Tiered Plans: Killing Of Mobile Innovation Or Opportunity For Others
Image by Getty Images via @daylife AT&T shocked the iPad users this week with an announcement that it will eliminate the unlimited data plan they offer now. In fact, this unlimited, no contract plan was one of the reasons many people, including me, bought iPad 3G in the first place. Even though many will not [...]
StorSimple Simplifies The Use Of Cloud Storage
Cloud based storage is very hot in the market right now. The highly scalable and elastic nature of the cloud storage makes it very attractive for businesses of all sizes and shapes. However, there are certain issues crucial to the large scale adoption of cloud based storage. They are Latency Issues Lower cost Better integration [...]
Twitter is No Longer a Platform
Twitter no longer deserves the label “platform”. There, I said it. Its recent decision to lock out third-party ad networks, combined with its clear move in to the edge application space fundamentally alter what Twitter is. It is no longer a platform for application developers to productize around core stream functionality and monetize the edge [...]
Relevance Of Open Source In A Cloud Based World: Boto And Google Storage
The Clouderati are still busy debating whether open source has any relevance in the cloud based world. This video is one such debate which you might be interested in watching. As I have told in the past, there are two schools of thoughts. One, lead by folks like Tim O’ Reilly, advocate the importance of [...]
What is the Real Value of Social CRM (SCRM)?
I was originally going to write this post to cover the fact that Social CRM is also the customers’ responsibility and not just the companies’. Then I realized that at the end of the day most customers don’t really care about what their responsibilities are, they want their needs and demands met and that’s all [...]
Why I think Facebook Has Gone Rogue
The last few days were filled with blog posts about Facebook going rogue. Many pundits are upset that Facebook treats users’ privacy with complete disdain. There are a few who feel that Facebook has done nothing wrong and those who don’t like their new policies should leave it and go elsewhere. After all we live [...]
VMOps Reboots As Cloud.com
Image via CrunchBase Regular readers of CloudAve know that I am a sucker of federated clouds and I have been pushing the idea of regional clouds hard. In this context, I have been talking about enablers like VMOps and regional cloud providers like Reliacloud and Scaleup Technologies . Today, VMOps announced that they are rebranding as [...]
Riptano, Cloudera For Cassandra
Riptano , a new company launched recently can be considered Cloudera of Cassandra project. This company was started by two ex-Rackspace employees (disclaimer: Rackspace’s Email Division is a client of Diversity Analysis) to provide support services for Cassandra much like how Cloudera was started to offer support services for Apache Hadoop. When I wrote about [...]
Red Hat Takes Another Step Towards Cloud Computing
Redhat, the poster child of open source and maker of most popular Linux distribution in the enterprise market, took another step into the cloudy future. Redhat recently released version 5.5 of their popular Enterprise Linux distribution. They followed it up with an announcement focused mainly on the hybrid nature of the enterprise cloud adoption in [...]
Standards Or Openness?
Lew Moorman writing on GigaOm (warning: two weeks old post) suggests that openness is more important standards because it gives more options to consumers. Many suggest that standards are the key to encouraging broader adoption of cloud computing. I disagree; I think the key is openness. What’s the difference? In the standards approach, a cloud [...]
Old media, new media and presentation skills changing the face of British Politics
A complex equation of old media influence, new media influence, and plain old fashioned presentation skills are in the process of changing British Politics forever. I don’t usually get in to political issues here (and please note my disclosure at the end), but there are some important lessons to learn from the UK’s first General [...]
Dachis Acquisition Machine Reaches the 2.0 Adoption Council
Emerging Enterprise 2.0 Consultancy the Dachis Group has just acquired The 2.0 Adoption Council. I have mixed feelings about the deal. On one hand I am happy for Susan Scrupski, fellow Enterprise Irregular and E2.0 evangelist / thought leader. On the other hand I would have preferred to see the Council remain independent – I’ve [...]
