Bought vs. Sold (Why Jive is a dinosaur & Dropbox is the future)
Both Dropbox and Jive are successful companies that are much in the news recently. Jive just filed its S1 for its IPO, while Dropbox raised its first major round of funding at a $4 billion valuation. What’s most interesting to me is that they represent polar opposites in terms of business models. They illustrate the [...]
GigaSpaces Brings Java to Azure
The last few months have seen a mass move from PaaS players to move from single language/framework to support to being all things to all peopple. From PHPFog renaming itself AppFog and adding new languages, to Heroku rolling out Java to CloudFoundry going Node.js, multi language is the way of the future it seems. One [...]
Following Good Practice, The Negative Bits About Windows Azure First, But Gems Included! :D
Ok, I’ve used Windows Azure steadily over the last year and a half. I’ve fought with the SDK so much that I stopped using it. I decided I’d put together this recap of what has driven me crazy and then put together something about the parts that I really like, the awesome bits, the parts [...]
Microsoft Sky Drive now worth checking out
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Homomorphic Encryption for Cloud Computing
Those boffins over at Microsoft have shown that homomorphic encryption can go beyond theory and have developed a couple of limited proofs of concept. This is the cool part, this kind of encryption goes well beyond what we are thinking of privacy for personal data, if you can processed encrypted data, then over time [...]
Cloud Outages: Design For Failure Or Enterprise Clouds?
Last weekend saw Lightning taking out datacenters associated with Amazon Cloud and Microsoft BPOS. It affected one Availability Zone (AZ) in AWS Europe. Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge has detailed information on the incident. Amazon said that lightning struck a transformer near its data center, causing an explosion and fire that knocked out utility [...]
Happy Birthday, Personal Computer. Rest in Peace.
Business Insider reminds us that today is the 30th birthday of the original IBM PC: the computer’s brain was a 4.77Mhz Intel 8088 processor (for my younger readers, it’s Mega not Giga) and it had a grand total of 256K RAM (again, it’s not 256 GB, not even MB, but Kilobytes). Yet it was a [...]
OSCON: Talking Shop With HP, Heroku, ForgeRock, Open Source For America, and More!
Today and yesterday I specifically aimed to meet and interview a number of sponsors and companies attending OSCON. My big quest I’d assigned myself was to determine who was doing what, where, when, and why in the Open Source Community. Of course I wasn’t going to get to every company, but I was going to [...]
A Cloud a Risin’
Is the Cloud OS going to replace traditional server operating systems? Are the days of server based Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, UX, etc. over? Last week: Citrix acquires Cloud.com VMware announces vSphere V In terms of enterprise voice, we are starting to see the trend of centralization – hosting branch offices off a centralized voice [...]
Windows Live Microsoft Word Document UX vs. Google Docs UX
Before even getting to the point of writing a document, there are very distinct user experiences (UX). I have my own preferences, but I am very curious what others think. When somebody decides to create a new Microsoft Word Document in the Windows Live Site on their Skydrive they’re presented with this interface. Windows Live [...]
Citrix Acquires Cloud.com: An Analysis
Citrix (previous CloudAve coverage), the virtualization player who is gaining some decent traction recently, today announced the acquisition of Cloud.com (previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud platform player with considerable traction on the side of Telcos, Service providers and even enterprises. Initially, Citrix will push the Cloud.com product lines and Citrix branded versions will [...]
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 [...]
Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle Org Chart
AMZN, MSFT, GOOG, and other org Charts (Click for full size) Image credit: Bonkers World. (Cross-posted @ Composite Code)
Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries
In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. Specifically, Amazon has changed our entire industry in profound ways often not attributed strongly enough [...]
Evernote Celebrates Birthday by Joining the Billion Dollar Club (Really?)
Evernote has recently celebrated their third birthday. I also recently had my 21st birthday – it feels good to be able to legally grab a drink finally. (Hey, if Evernote can lie about their age, so can I…). Joke apart, I have no idea why a company would pretend to be half as young as [...]
