Splunk Makes Monitoring Clouds Easy
Even though cloud makes provisioning of IT resources just a click away, it is only the beginning of the game. Cloud infrastructure is not a miracle pill that completely eliminates any need for IT. The typical IT management problems of the traditional computing world is carried forward to the cloud based world too. The biggest [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
Amazon Takes Necessary Steps Towards Luring The Enterprises
Amazon Web Services is on a roll lately. They have been announcing variety of features, both big and small, and they even announced their datacenters in Asia-Pacific. Being a runaway leader in marketshare and poster boy for cloud computing, AWS has been receiving lot of positive press and some flak. Usually, the criticism is about [...]
Cisco Just Kicked iPad Out of Enterprise Market With Cisco Cius
Cisco Live is going on at Las vegas and I just watched the keynote by John Chambers, their CEO. The turn around by Cisco is impressive and they are really onto something with their video strategy. Today Cisco announced their new tablet strategy bringing telepresence to the reach of Joes and Janes like myself and [...]
What is next for computing when people have gone mobile?
Image via Wikipedia If you own an Iphone, an Ipad, an Android phone, or any of the other highly connected mobile devices, you get a very good idea of where computing is going. The problem is that we are still stuck on the same paradigm when it comes to services and work. Chained to a [...]
Enterprises Sneaking Into Public Clouds?
Image via CrunchBase There is a widespread opinion among pundits and cloud practitioners that enterprises are running away from public clouds. Part of the reason for this impression is the real security concerns about the cloud and the rest is due to the misinformation campaign unleashed by vendors who have a lot to lose in [...]
Separated from Your Parade
You’ve seen it all in your career, your certain of it. It’s not often that you’re surprised by events or actions taken by Executives or Boards of Directors. Certainly not when you’ve always been a top performer. But there’s always those outliers. Outliers like when you accepted a new job at a new company. A [...]
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 [...]
Boomi’s Spring Momentum: Enterprise SOA To Cloud And Rightnow Integration
Image via CrunchBase Boomi, the Pennsylvania based SaaS integration provider, is continuing the momentum they created with the Widget Challenge contest during Dreamforce ‘09 with a slew of new announcements this spring. Last week they announced the new release of their platform, AtomSphere Spring ‘10, that could extend the enterprise SOA to the cloud. Today, [...]
Social CRM – the new rules
There are changes underway across the worlds of social media marketing, social media applied inside business (what some people would call enterprise 2.0) and where these tools connect (or not) to the business processes in (Cloud based) CRM and ERP systems. Products like Salesforce are adding Chatter, and Twitter connectivity. Enterprise 2.0 tools that started [...]
SherpaTools, Channel Strategies and Google Apps Management
Cloud Sherpas is a systems integrator and application developer that almost exclusively deals with Google Apps (they’re a high performing Google Apps Partner having moved over 80000 users to Google Apps to date). I spent a bit of time talking to Cloud Sherpas CEO Michael Cohn about life as a reseller in a cloudy world. [...]
Is the Cloud term an asset or just marketing hype?
A few things came together for me this week around the Cloud term. I spent time with one of my best customers discussing online accounting, what we should do to improve the product we represent in the UK, and how we should position to beat the incumbent in the small business market, Sage. But the [...]
The Machiavellian Guide to Enterprise 2.0
This is not a blue print for how to be a ruthless employee, rather some sound, in-your-face examples from the best of the Enterprise 2.0 crowd. This article is for internal champions who have aspirations of of getting ahead and making a name for themselves in their company. In January 1503, Machiavelli began to work [...]
2.0 Adoption Warfare – can military tactics help?
A few weeks ago, as part of Social Media Week, Alan Patrick and I ran the very well received Social Media in Enterprise event (which we’ll run again!). It provided 8 different perspectives on collaboration in the enterprise using the new tools. Amongst the many issues raised in a night of some great discussion and [...]
