Top Five Challenges Facing Enterprise Application Developers
Several common themes have emerged from discussions with a broad array of enterprise developers. In this post, I’ll share some of what I’ve been hearing. I would love to get your feedback. 1) Cloud Apps are Hard to Get Right – While abstraction of infrastructure has helped agility and application management, it doesn’t make it [...]
New Meme: Business Users Are The IT
For the past two years, I have been advocating PaaS as the future of cloud services and how developers are the face of the IT in the PaaS era. I have long argued that as PaaS takes over the IT infrastructure in the organizations, we will see a shift in who holds the key to [...]
Build 2012: Microsoft Takes The First Step Towards A Coherent Platform Strategy
This week I had a chance to spend some time at the Build 2012 conference, Microsoft’s developer conference. Though I didn’t get a chance to attend the keynotes or any briefings, I spent time talking to Microsoft employees, developers and partners attending the event. I thought I will share my take on Microsoft’s platform strategy based [...]
What Can Microsoft Do To Attract Youtube Generation Developers?
Recently, I had a chance to talk to some Microsoft folks on how they can reach out to Youtube generation of developers. It is not a problem for Microsoft alone but it is the case with many companies with legacy tag on them, like IBM, but it stands out in the Microsoft case because of [...]
IBM Makes Rational Software More Palatable To Developers With Green Hat Acquisition
IBM (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced their intent to acquire the London based software quality testing solution, Green Hat. With this move, IBM is preparing Rational Software for the hybrid era where enterprises will have complex environments including cloud based infrastructure. This is an interesting move considering the fact that Rational Software already has Rational [...]
HP Opensources WebOS: My Quick Thoughts
HP (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that they are opensourcing their WebOS mobile operating system. After their initial plan to shed WebOS completely, there was a rethink once Meg Whitman took over as CEO. They were dillydallying for many weeks before making this smart move. HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to [...]
What If Every Developer Focused On Lifestyle Businesses?
I recently ran across this post from Justin Vincent, where he argues that entreporn–the overwhelming focus on chasing “the next big thing”–holds developers back from their full potential. Instead, he writes: “The absolute truth is that each and every one of us can build a business that can support us.” That’s bullshit. While Vincent makes [...]
Apigee Opens Up API Console To All
Apigee (see previous CloudAve coverage), formerly known as Sonoa Systems, last week announced that they are opening up their API console to all the providers. They initially started off with API console supporting Twitter and Facebook. Over a period, they started working with LinkedIn, Paypal, etc.. Last week, they finally announced that any provider offering [...]
Appirio CloudSpokes – For The Cloud, On The Cloud, By The Cloud (Provider)
Two weeks back, the cloud based systems integrator Appirio announced a new developer community called CloudSpokes. This is an attempt by Appirio to crowdsource cloud development work on public cloud platforms. They already have a good group of developers inside USA and have an offshore partner in India. They are trying to build a community [...]
Deciphering Amazon’s Android App Store Strategy
Last week, Amazon unwrapped a marketplace for Android Applications pitching it as a credible alternative to Google’s own Android Marketplace. This move has generated both excitement and concerns from pundits. There are some who wonder about this move by Amazon and there are others who worry about how the fragmentation of marketplace will affect the [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudBees Acquires Stax Networks To Accelerate Their PaaS Strategy
CloudBees, founded in early 2010 with developers in US, Europe and Australia, today announced the acquisition of Stax Networks, the Java Application platform running on top of EC2. This acquisition accelerates CloudBees’ RUN@cloud PaaS strategy which is slated for release in January 2011. Regular readers of this blog know that I am strongly pushing the [...]
AWS Free Offering: Not Enough
On Thursday, Amazon Web Services announced their free cloud offering for developers and this news sent many in the cloud community dizzy. Whether AWS expected such a round of free marketing or not, the tech media gave them a round of applause for this move. As far as I am concerned, this fell in the [...]
Developers Confirm That Cloud Computing And Mobile Platforms Are The Future
The 2010 IBM Tech Trends Survey, conducted by IBM DeveloperWorks with 2000 developers, throws up some interesting trends in the coming years. The survey highlights the growing importance of mobile platforms and cloud computing among the developers, a clear indication that cloud computing is very well beyond the inflated peaks resulting from marketing campaigns. If [...]
Rackspace Cloud Makes It Easy For .Net Developers
After releasing Windows Cloud Servers last month, Rackspace is now focussing on getting .NET developers use their cloud. When they released their Windows cloud servers, I was skeptical of developers moving to their servers instead of using Azure platform. In my opinion, their Windows based offerings may fill the gap in catering to their existing [...]
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 [...]
