Dell Takes On Proprietary Clouds With An OpenStack Solution
Last week at OSCON 2011, Dell unveiled Dell OpenStack Cloud, its OpenStack based solution to go against the likes of IBM targeting both the enterprise and service provider markets. While talking about Dell’s attempts against the unified computing efforts by IBM, Cisco, HP and Oracle, I highlighted how Dell is taking a more “open” approach [...]
OSCON Week: Two Approaches To Enterprise PaaS
This is yet another video from OSCON 2011 talking about cloud providers with open source cred. In this post, I am going to present two different PaaS providers taking two different approaches to offering PaaS targeting the enterprises. Both these offering falls into what I call as Federated PaaS offerings but VMware takes a more [...]
OSCON Week: Piston Cloud Computing, Redhat Of OpenStack
Earlier this month, Piston Cloud Computing Inc. was launched with $4.5 Million funding from True Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Divergent Ventures and others. It was founded by lead architect at NASA’s Nebula Cloud infrastructure, Joshua McKenty, along with Chris MacGown, formerly from Slicehost. Piston Computing is a typical example of what an open source project [...]
OSCON Week: Eucalyptus Systems
I was at OSCON 2011 for two days. Like last year, OpenStack was garnering the media attention this year too. I thought I should check out the other open source cloud platform (open core, to be precise), Eucalyptus Systems, and see how they are doing. I spoke with Brady Murray, Director of Alliances at Eucalyptus [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudBees Secures Series B Funding
CloudBees (previous CloudAve coverage), the Java based PaaS provider, yesterday announced an additional round of funding worth $10.5 Million. Regular readers of this blog know that I am bullish on the fact that PaaS is the future of Cloud Services and this funding news only confirms that investors also believe in this trend. CloudBees was started by [...]
Cloud Apps – (MindTouch) Help Is On The Way
MindTouch (previous CloudAve coverage), who morphed from a Wiki provider to Help 2.0 solution provider, last week announced a new feature to their MindTouch TCS platform, their flagship Help 2.0 solution. Called MindTouch Contextual Help, this helps vendors add contextual help features to their web or cloud based apps. Even though I have been following [...]
Acquia Gets Another Round Of Funding: Commercial Open Source Is Still Strong
Acquia (previous CloudAve coverage), the commercial company behind open source Drupal content management software, announced the completion of Series D round of funding worth $15 Million Dollars. This round was funded by Tenaya Capital along with significant follow up participation from their existing investors, Northbridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. Acquia will tap into this [...]
SOASTA Makes It Easy For Anyone To Do Enterprise Class Performance Testing
SOASTA (previous CloudAve review), the California based performance testing provider, today announced a free version for their enterprise class CloudTest platform. If your organization uses consumer facing mission critical application, ensuring a high performance in the application becomes a necessity. It becomes crucial to test the application for various load conditions, network conditions and geographical [...]
Adobe Acquires Echosign
Adobe System Incorporated announced a few hours back that they have acquired EchoSign (see their blog post), the Palo Alto based company offering electronic signature solution. According to the company, EchoSign’s solution will be part of the Adobe document exchange platform for exchanging documents for universal access, review and approval. The solution will also be [...]
Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue To Grow 21% This Year
Gartner, the leading research firm, said SaaS will grow by 21% this year with CRM leading the way. Based on the trends we have been observing in the recent years, this is pretty much expected. After the initial FUD and maturation of cloud based technologies, enterprises are looking beyond the security and privacy issue to [...]
Microsoft Adds Co-Authoring Support For Online Word App
After dismissing realtime co-editing feature as too difficult to implement, Microsoft has made a turn around and implemented it on their cloud based Word application. This reversal of stance comes after Microsoft has realized that one of the reasons why users are attracted towards web based office suite is the idea of co-editing. Zoho Office [...]
Google Says Google+ Is Not Ready For Brands
Ever since Google+ was launched, I am playing around with it both for personal use as well as for professional use. I see Google+ eventually replacing Facebook for me (provided I convince my family and friends to start using Google+ and their throttling of invites is not helping my cause) on the personal side. Already, [...]
Heroku Supports Clojure
Heroku (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS poster kid acquired by Salesforce.com last year, today announced that they are officially supporting Clojure, a Lisp like language taking a more functional approach, and it is now available in public beta. Clohure is the third language supported by Heroku after Ruby and Node.js. We’re very excited to announce [...]
RIP: Google Health
Old time readers of CloudAve know how myself and Zoli are very interested in the online health records and we both expected Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault to solve these pain points (for our posts on this topic, click here). After the initial buzz, Google Health faded off from the radar of many people. Now [...]
Box Counters Office 365 With Deeper Google Integration
Box (previous CloudAve coverage), Palo Alto based cloud content management solution provider, yesterday announced their readiness to take on Office 365 (previous CloudAve coverage), Microsoft’s comprehensive online office solution including Sharepoint, which will be generally available next week. They announced a tighter integration with Google Docs, clearly a credible option to go against Sharepoint inside [...]
