Rackspace Offers Windows Cloud Servers
Today, Rackspace announced the release of Windows based Cloud Servers to compete with Amazon EC2 Windows instances and Windows Azure. According to Rackspace, the new service delivers a highly scalable environment ideal for Windows-based hosting, testing and developing applications and supporting the high levels of traffic required for launching online gaming platforms or the next [...]
Did We Get The Cloud Infrastructure Business Wrong?
The conventional wisdom among the pundits covering Infrastructure services is that cloud infrastructure business is a high volume low margin business. Some pundits even dismissed Amazon Web Services because they are not going up the stack to differentiate themselves unlike, say, Salesforce.com. Amazon probably isn’t going all that far in it [cloud]. It’s got great [...]
UBS Analysts Try To Unravel Amazon Mystery
Even though cloud computing is few years old now and Amazon Web Services is considered as the poster child of public clouds, pundits and others were deeply mystified about the size of Amazon’s cloud computing efforts. There were conflicting opinions about the size of Amazon cloud, almost turning into a religious war between AWS fanboys(girls) [...]
Skytap Adds Enterprise Features During Their Evolution Towards Cloud Automation
Skytap, the Seattle based company which was originally focussed on Lab automation, has announced some features more suitable for enterprise customers. Enterprises today are much more open to cloud adoption than, say, one year back. Slowly, companies focussing on infrastructure are adding more and more features that will make their offering more attractive to enterprises. [...]
Rapportive Shows Social CRM Space Is Heating Up
Increasingly, we are seeing trends that point out to Social CRM becoming the next hot thing in the application world. Unlike the traditional CRM apps, social CRM mines the data in your social network to offer more relevant information regarding your contact or potential customer. Even though the traditional CRM vendors are slowly waking up [...]
Google Apps Shapes Up Nicely In Spite Of Noise Around City Of LA Bungling
The noise surrounding Google App’s City of LA deployment doesn’t appear to be dying down anytime soon. Yesterday, another article highlighting Google’s failure came up on the basis of a leaked email from the City of Los Angeles. The April 13 letter, addressed to L.A.’s information technology and government affairs committee from City Administrative Officer Miguel [...]
Simon Wardley’s Prophecy: Is Openstack The Small Guy Going To Disrupt Amazon’s Dominance?
When I wrote about Openstack last week, I talked about the disruptive potential of an Openstack.org and how it can make the market by empowering the smaller players. Many people who dismiss Openstack.org as a non-starter fail to understand that it is just a start. Openstack.org doesn’t claim it has the miracle pill for all [...]
Bitrock Makes Cloud App Deployments Easier With BitNami Studio
Bitrock, the company that provides tools and services to package, deploy and update software, has announced the release of Bitnami Studio, a self service GUI based platform to package and deploy applications to the clouds. It offers choice from the underlying operating systems to middleware/runtime to applications to the users so that they can easily [...]
Morph Labs Gets Ready To Take On The Competitive Marketplace After A Series B Funding Round
MorphLabs, the company that helps enterprises and service providers build private clouds announced a $5.5 Million Series B funding. This funding round is led by Global Gateway Investment Group (G2iG) with new investor, Frontera Group LLC, joining existing investors CSK Venture Capital Co. Ltd. and AO Capital Partners Ltd.. After gaining lots of traction in Japan, [...]
Groundwork Open Source Getting Ready For Private Clouds
Image via CrunchBase Recently I wrote about Groundwork Open Source, an enterprise level network monitoring tool built on top of Nagios. Today I am hearing that they are preparing themselves to target enterprises who are using private clouds. They are pretty close to offering a monitoring solution for Eucalyptus clouds. We all know that Eucalyptus [...]
IT Management Made Simple With Zendesk And GroundWork Open Source
Image via CrunchBase Zendesk (see Ben’s previous coverage of Zendesk at Cloud Ave), an elegant and simple on-demand helpdesk tool, is now bundled with GroundWork Open Source (GWOS), a network monitoring appliance built on top of Nagios, to offer an enterprise ready IT Management tool. Enterprises are still reluctant to embrace SaaS wholeheartedly. However, we [...]
Alcatel-Lucent Empowers Developers With A Sandbox On The Cloud
Mobile platform is getting hotter and hotter for developers. After iPhone turned the user behavior of mobile devices upside down, a gold rush began for developers. The huge success of iPhone platform has made mobile very attractive for everyone from users to developers to, even, enterprises. The success of Android platform and the excitement created [...]
Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Digging A Bit More
I recently revisited my “open source as a SaaS endgame” theory quoting a news about another web app releasing their code under an open source license before shutting down the shop. As I do with many of my posts here in Cloud Ave, I was wearing my evangelist hat and it resulted in the crux [...]
Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Storytlr Joins The Elite Group
Many societies believe in the idea of Afterlife. As far as the human life is concerned, I do not believe in this supernatural concepts. However, when it comes to software “lives”, I believe in eternity (a life without death). I believe that a software can live eternally without the death faced by the lesser mortals, [...]
