Apigee Shows Momentum And Launches CDN Equivalent For APIs
Apigee (previous CloudAve coverage), the API infrastructure company formerly known as Sonoa Systems, today highlighted momentum in their business and announced a new service called API Delivery Network (API-DN), which can be simplistically defined as CDN equivalent for APIs. In January of this year, I pointed out to Apigee processing 16 Billion API calls per [...]
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 [...]
SOASTA Delivers CloudTest Pro. What Can We Learn From Them?
SOASTA, the California based performance testing provider, yesterday announced the release of SOASTA CloudTest Pro, an appliance based service targeted at enterprises and startups wanting to test the performance of web and mobile applications. This is available as an appliance for an annual subscription along with their existing solutions like CloudTest On-Demand (public cloud service) [...]
IBM Study Predicts Collaboration, Analytics And Cloud Computing As Drivers Of Growth In Midmarket
Image via CrunchBase Recently, IBM released a study that talked about how midmarket organizations view IT in 2011. As US and rest of the world emerge from one of the worst economic troubles they have ever encountered, organizations are opening up their wallets for spending. IBM tried to find out the purchasing patterns, business issues [...]
Gluster Platform Adds Elasticity And Automation Making It Cloud Ready
Gluster (see our previous coverage), the open source storage platform vendor, today announced a new version of their storage platform, Gluster 3.1, that adds elasticity and automation needed for today’s dynamic cloud world. According to Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, co-founder and CTO of Gluster, “The new capabilities in Gluster Storage Platform allow us to better [...]
Open Source And Cloud Computing: Amazon Micro Instances Can Be Boon To SMBs
Earlier today, I wrote about Amazon’s announcement on the availability of the new Micro Instances and their aggressive pricing strategy. The surprising factor for me is their competitive pricing. Their on-demand instance is only 2 cents per hour for Linux and 3 cents per hour for Windows. A 24/7 usage of a Linux Micro Instance [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rackspace Increases Profits With Help From Cloud Computing
Rackspace, the San Antanio based Cloud Infrastructure provider, announced on tuesday that their profits for the fourth quarter has surged by 32%, increasing from rom $6.8 million to $9 million. Rackspace, which was started in 1998, claims to have 70,000 customers now with over 51,000 cloud computing customers. Even though it is not clear how they arrived [...]
Joyent Ups The Ante In Enterprise Game
Joyent, the San Franscisco based company offering enterprise class cloud computing solutions, is shifting focus to completely concentrate on enterprise customers. I wrote about Joyent in the early months of Cloud Ave and Joyent has, ever since, prioritized their offerings towards enterprise customers. The tech blogosphere is always buzzing with news about various Amazon cloud [...]
Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players – A Shortsighted Idea
Some commentators in the field of Cloud Computing like to promote the idea that there will be a single (or a handful) monopoly player(s) in the Cloud infrastructure market. The biggest reason quoted to justify this claim is the high cost of building and maintaining the datacenters. The supporters of this school of thought argue that not many companies can [...]
SaaS and Religion: the Tenancy Debates. Do Customers Care?
(Warning: this is a long post. Only read it when sitting in a comfortable chair. Or a pool lounge, holding your CrunchPad.) Two recent posts by Enterprise Social Software vendors Jive and Atlassian set up a huge debate amongst my fellow Enterprise Irregulars. Here’s the money-quote from Jive: It’s not so long ago that it [...]
Things You Can Learn at the Glue Conference
I’ve been working on an agenda update, and in doing so, I found myself re-discovering all of the things that I can learn about a Glue. Here’s a partial list: How Facebook is opening up their platform Why REST is the foundation for web oriented architecture Where identity is heading, and why it has to [...]
Sun Microsystems Plans To Compete With Amazon Web Services
Image via Wikipedia Sun Microsystems will be making some announcements on Wednesday regarding their Cloud offerings. Here at Cloud Avenue, we got a chance to talk to the folks at Sun, in advance, about their announcement and I am going to share it here on this post. So far Sun has been talking vaguely about their plans [...]
USA Leading the Broadband Connectivity Index. Really?
Common wisdom is that the US is way behind developed Asian and European countries in Broadband (and also Mobility). Not quite so – says Professor Leonard Waverman of the London Business School, who published a study on the World’s Connectivity Scorecard. His key thesis is that penetration and connection speed is not enough to [...]
