Cloud Vendors Push US Congress For More Data Protection
One of the biggest concerns regarding Cloud Computing is about the privacy of data on third party servers. Along with data thefts that could happen due to bad security policies of the vendors, there is always a threat from overzealous governments trying to use their authority to take anyone’s data out from the third party [...]
Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel: A Clean Break With Redhat?
As a part of Oracle Open World 2010, Oracle made some interesting announcements that is stirring up the tech circles. The first announcement is Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, which are cloudwashed high end Non Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) servers. This is basically Oracle’s attempt to swim with the cloud computing wave. After trying to dismiss [...]
Horses for Sources and the London School of Economics Launch Groundbreaking Study into Cloud Business Services
Phil Fersht is a respected analyst and consultant, fellow Enterprise Irregular, Founder and CEO of Horses for Sources, a blog and research firm focused on all issues related to outsourcing. Because of the importance of his new initiative, I’ll quote his entire post below, with his permission: “Folks – we’re delighted to announce that today [...]
Defrag: Summit or Conference?
I had a really interesting phone call with Sameer Patel yesterday. The last couple of times that we spoke Sameer had taken to describing Defrag as a “summit-y feel” or “more of a summit than a conference.” Yesterday, when he said that again, I asked him exactly what he meant by that (and now I’m [...]
Lowering Risk at Decision Points
I’ve actually got the chance to catch up on a little blog reading this morning, and I just got to digest Sameer Patel’s wonderful post entitled, “Innovation 1.0, served here.” The bit that really hit home was this (emphasis mine): “By organizations embracing and encouraging innovation, that really doesn’t equate to every factory worker walking [...]
Cisco Planning To Acquire Skype To Target Consumer Market?
Mike Arrington has made a post talking about a possible acquisition of Skype by Cisco. According to him there are talks to acquire Skype at a price near $5 Billion before they complete the IPO process. Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype before they complete their IPO process, says one of our more [...]
Nimbula Raises 15 Million Series B Round To Shore Up Private Cloud Offering
Nimbula, the company founded by two engineers who were part of the original Amazon EC2 team, today announced that they have raised 15 Million in Series B round of financing. This round was mainly lead by Accel partners. Nimbula was launched in last Structure conference and offers private cloud with Amazon like scalability. This round [...]
Software Is The New Hardware
Today Intel announced that it is buying McAfee for $7.7 billion. This acquisition made people scratch their heads. Why McAfee? The obvious arguments are that Intel has hit the growth wall and organic growth is not good enough to satisfy the shareholders. But this argument quickly falls apart from margin perspective. Why dilute their current [...]
Box.Net Adds Offline Support But How Many Really Use It?
Box.Net, the cloud storage provider turned cloud content management platform for businesses, yesterday announced a new feature for their mobile apps which will let users store documents offline. In a blog post today, Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net, wrote about the new feature. Today’s workplace has exploded beyond the office walls and into coffee shops, [...]
Will Google's Net Neutrality Stance Affect Its Brand?
Yesterday, Google and Verizon announced a joint policy proposal to regulate the internet. In short, they have called on FCC to assume control over the internet and regulate it to keep it “open”. Even though I am supportive of any proposal to keep the internet open, this pact between Google and Verizon is not only [...]
Tapping The Cloud To Tackle Oil Spill
As the workforce becomes more distributed, organizations are faced with daunting tasks with respect to workforce management, security, etc.. Location services and SaaS come very handy for organizational managers to manage their mobile workforce in a centralized way. As more and more organizations of all sizes and shapes start using smartphones, organizations can tap into [...]
What’s the Next Casualty After Google Wave?
When Google announced that it is going to kill Wave, my first reaction was – wait, what will happen to Google Wave in Google Apps? So I looked for a post on Google Enterprise Blog. The post basically echoed what was mentioned in their official blog post . It didn’t clearly say if it’ll discontinue [...]
Are We Nearing The End Of Google Wave?
Techcrunch has a post talking about the possible demise of Google Wave, its much hyped real time collaboration platform. Even though it is not completely unexpected, it is a bit of a shocker for me personally. Maybe it was just ahead of its time. Or maybe there were just too many features to ever allow [...]
Innovating Around Restrictions – PlayOn Story
When talking about the capping of data for iPad by AT&T, I argued that such restrictions presents opportunity for others in the market to innovate When AT&T unexpectedly announced its plan to kill the unlimited plan with a spin on the savings for most of their data plan users, many in the tech blogosphere were [...]
Cloud Vendors Plead For Uniform Regulations In Europe
I have been covering the European cloud computing market a little bit here at Cloud Ave. One of the reasons for the failure of public cloud providers in that market is the strict privacy laws that requires the cloud providers to keep the data within the borders. Even though AWS has support for EU region, [...]
