Microsoft, Apprenda And Service Providers – An Analysis
Microsoft (previous CloudAve coverage) and Apprenda (previous CloudAve coverage) yesterday made some announcements focussing on service providers at #wpc12 and it generated lots of buzz in the tech community. Even though there were lot of talk about the VMware angle in the story and about Microsoft planning to push Azure as the cloud OS of [...]
Microsoft Offers Hosts Another Cloud to Chose From–White Labels Azure
Microsoft this week announced a new program that will allow hosting service providers to use existing data centers to deliver a white-label version of Azure. This is a progression from the announcement last month that Microsoft was giving developers the ability to achieve symmetry between public and private PaaS with .NET as this announcement heads [...]
Silicon Angle Interview–What’s New and News in the Cloud
While I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago I took the opportunity to sit down with Alex Williams, Cloud editor of Silicon Angle, and Stu Miniman from Wikibon, to film a video interview. The interview cam at an interesting time – in the space of 24 hours we’d seen some large Cloud-related announcements [...]
Microsoft, Apple And The Competition In The Post PC Era
After Microsoft announced their beautiful Surface tablet and positioned it as a tablet that bridges the gap with the PC, there was some discussions on whether we are heading into the post-PC world dominated by tablets or we are going to see a new form of device that is neither tablet nor PC. Some even [...]
With Yammer, Microsoft Begins Its Journey From Collaborative To Social
Confirming what we already knew, today Microsoft announced they are acquiring Yammer for $1.2 billion in cold cash. Here’s a blog post by David Sacks, the CEO of Yammer. Microsoft doesn’t report a revenue breakdown for their individual products but SharePoint is believed to be one of the fastest growing products with annual revenue of [...]
Microsoft Buys Yammer- A Two Minute Analysis
So Microsoft has confirmed the rumored acquisition of Yammer for $1.2B. Here’s my thoughts; Potentially this is a great opportunity for MSFT to create a fabric that spans their different enterprise products (Dynamics, Office, SharePoint) that’s a big big opportunity but I believe technology and platform hurdles will push that possibility well into the future [...]
Quick Thoughts On Microsoft Surface
Yesterday, Microsoft announced their tablet strategy with Microsoft Surface, a well designed tablet going head to head with iPad and Android Tablets. I thought I will add my quick thoughts on this announcement. In spite of all the positives about Surface, what stands out is that Microsoft is clueless about the availability and pricing. If [...]
Microsoft Does It Right And Oracle Claims They Are Right
This week saw cloud related announcements from two software behemoths from the traditional era, Microsoft and Oracle. Microsoft rebooted Windows Azure making it more palatable to modern day developers and started playing nice on the interoperability game. Oracle re-announced their public cloud strategy and, in the process, tried to convince users that they should see [...]
The Big Opportunities in the Cloud
Recently I was invited to take part in a series of private briefings where large financial institutions sat down with one or two industry analysts to “pick their brains” about what they’re seeing as broad trend in the sector. In an attempt to democratize what could otherwise be information kept within a walled garden, I [...]
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 [...]
Office Applications, Cloud Office Applications: An Open Letter
Alright, there are a dozen office suites out there that sit in various places on one’s computer, in the cloud, can do X, Y, and Z and the list goes on. However, I don’t want to talk about any of those suites. I want to talk about the suite we all want, the suite that [...]
Using the Cloud for personal productivity with Evernote
I’ve just made a significant switch in one of the main tools I use for my own personal productivity which highlights a key trend for the industry and all of us – the personal cloud. Whether it is for work or our personal lives we use desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, media players and tablets [...]
New Book on Cloud Computing
In case you have been wondering what has been keeping me busy, the InfoSec Institute out of Chicago has requested that I write down everything I know about Cloud Computing, and this is turning into an interesting project. As I am nearing my deadline, and finishing up the book on Advanced Cloud Computing for ISI, [...]
YouSendIt Moves Focus from Send to Share
One of the companies that has, until now, been left behind amidst all the attention given to the file collaboration and sharing vendors is YouSendIt. While the charismatic founders of Box and DropBox, Aaron Levie and Drew Houston respectively, articulate a vision of interconnectedness and the end of emailing files between collaborators, YouSendIt has quietly [...]
Next Iteration Of PaaS: Microsoft Game Plan
In January, I proposed a simple model for the next iteration of PaaS, called Intelligent Platforms, which is centered around data. As we move into a world dominated by Big Data with mobile and various sensors churning out data several orders of magnitude more than even the petabyte scale, data is the new oil for [...]
