IBM’s Social Agenda
Last week IBM hosted the annual Lotusphere event at Orlando. Last year, they made a strategic shift and started pushing heavily on the idea of Social Business and followed it up this year by not only brining last year’s announcements into fruition but also moved out of the Lotus brand to remove any legacy tag [...]
SOASTA Ready To Help Enterprises Embrace A Mobile Dominated Future
SOASTA (previous CloudAve coverage), Mountain View based cloud testing company, today announced the availability of performance and functional testing for continuous multi-touch, gesture based mobile applications. It is based on their TouchTest technology and offers precision testing of such mobile platforms while also ensuring stability of automated tests across releases. Right now it is available [...]
Year End Trends In Enterprise Software: HCM Is Hot And Integrated Suites
As the year 2011 is winding down, I am seeing few trends in enterprise software which might generate quite a bit of discussion among the pundits next year. I thought I will do a quick post on it and see if I can get some feedback from industry watchers and practitioners. As the traditional software [...]
BoxWorks 2011: A Recap
Last week Box, the enterprise software company formerly known as Box.net, held their first annual user conference by name Boxworks. With this conference, Box is signaling that they want to be part of the big enterprise software club. Since this is their first attempt, it was a one day event but they are planning a [...]
Poll: Is Google Apps Enterprise Ready?
Google has been pushing Google Apps as a cloud based alternative to Microsoft. Even though they are steadily improving Google Apps to meet the needs of the enterprise customers, there is a widespread feeling that it is not enterprise ready. In the last month alone, I have spoken to almost ten IT managers (including some [...]
pentOS: Why It Is Interesting?
Piston Computing (previous CloudAve coverage), the OpenStack ecosystem player founded by former NASA architect, yesterday announced the release of enterprise grade OpenStack distribution called pentOS (for Piston Enterprise OS). It is an enterprise grade cloud operating system meeting the security and governance needs of enterprises wanting to use OpenStack for their infrastructure services. With this [...]
Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce Not Only Matures But Has Plans For Enterprise Domination
Last week I attended Dreamforce 2011, Salesforce’s (previous CloudAve coverage) annual user conference which exceeded 40K attendees this year, and the blogosphere is already filled with Dreamforce posts. I am adding one more to the mix and I want to apologize straight away for my contribution to the echo chamber. I will try my best [...]
Eucalyptus Bets On High Availability With Their Exclusive Enterprise Focus
Eucalyptus Systems (previous CloudAve coverage), the cloud platform player with a core enterprise focus, today announced the forthcoming release of Eucalyptus 3.0. With this new release, Eucalyptus is taking the “high availability” mantra to lure enterprises when the buzz around the cloud world is the Amazon outage. More than the buzz surrounding the outages, Eucalyptus [...]
Tablets In The Enterprise: Workday and Box Announce Tablet Apps
From the days when we considered iPads in the enterprise as an exciting new trend, we have slowly moved into a world where tablets are a norm from boardroom to IT admins. In fact, it has become a defacto device for many of the top level executives, thereby, forcing cloud application providers to offer a [...]
Cloud SLAs Are Dead?
Today Forrester Analyst Vanessa Alvarez made a tweet that got me thinking about the state of public cloud marketplace. Even though I have been hearing the same about SLAs from people I am talking to, this tweet by Vanessa confirms that it is a broader trend in the enterprise IT as they plot their move [...]
IBM Survey: CIOs Expect A Cloud Boom
IBM recently released the results of their CIO study survey which predicts a boom in the enterprise cloud adoption. As I usually do with any vendor sponsored survey, I take it with a grain of salt. However, this is a trend most of us observe in the industry and I won’t be surprised if this [...]
Google Wants More Of Your Data On Their Cloud But …..
Google today announced that it is opening up their cloud infrastructure to let you store and process your geospatial data. They announced a new web based offering called Google Earth Builder, available in the later part of this year, which will let organizations upload their geospatial data to Google Cloud and let the employees view [...]
ECM Cloud Connect – Box Is Finally Getting Realistic
Yesterday, Box (see previous CloudAve coverage) announced that they are releasing ECM Cloud Connect, a connector for traditional enterprise content management software. This marks a subtle turn around in Box’s strategy, partly due to the recognition of their challenges and, possibly, due to the pressures that came with their recent whopping $48 Million funding round. [...]
Cloud.com Releases New Version And Gains Momentum
Cloud.com (see previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud platform provider formerly known as VMOps, recently announced the new version of their cloud platform, CloudStack 2.2, with some cool features. They have also showcases some of their customers and have promised to showcase more in the coming weeks and months. I have been following Cloud.com [...]
Will Box’s Enterprise Strategy Pay Dividends?
Box (see previous CloudAve coverage), formerly known as Box.Net, continues to push hard on gaining enterprise marketshare. Today they announced a newer version of iPad app that includes not only some of the recently announced #newbox features but also additional security measures aimed squarely at the enterprise customers. Box is trying to project themselves as [...]
