The Social Revolution Has Just Begun
Depending on whom you ask, 2011 was either the year of the iPad or the year of social. The truth is that they were and are equally weighted because they are catalysts for each other, and while each can exist without the other, imagining such a thing is like trying to imagine a world where [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Apprenda And Redhat Update Their Platforms
As we march towards a future dominated by PaaS, we are seeing companies ramping up their offerings. Today Apprenda (previous CloudAve coverage), the .NET PaaS provider, and Redhat (previous CloudAve Coverage), with their Openshift PaaS (previous CloudAve coverage) offering, made announcements about updates to their respective platforms. Apprenda announced the release of Apprenda 3.0, newer [...]
AppFog Announces Java Support – What The Heck Is Happening In PaaS Space?
Yesterday AppFog (previous CloudAve coverage), formerly known as PHPFog, announced that they are adding support for Java. With the addition Java support, they can now target enterprise developers who still believe in Java over the modern day languages. Along with Java, AppFog now support PHP, Ruby and Node.js. AppFog has a dual strategy in the space. [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: PHPCloud, Zend’s PHP PaaS Offering
Zend (previous CloudAve coverage), the company behind the popular PHP web application development framework, today announced the release of their PHP PaaS offering called PHPCloud.com, emphasizing on increased developer productivity. It is a clever packaging with strong ties between Zend Studio, Zend Framework and the elastic nature of cloud. As we see PaaS to be [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Engine Yard Opens Up Platform Services
Engine Yard (previous CloudAve coverage), one of the earliest PaaS players, today announced the launch of Engine Yard Platform Services. This is a partner program with more than 40 cloud vendors offering their services for Engine Yard platform. This is more like an appstore for Engine Yard Platform customers so that they can easily use [...]
10gen Announces $20 M Funding And MongoDB 2.0 Is Out
10gen (previous CloudAve coverage), the company behind open source MongoDB database (previous CloudAve coverage), today announced a new round of funding worth $20 Million backed by Sequoia Capital with the support of existing investors, Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures. 10gen has raised $31 Million since their inception in 2007. This will help 10gen to expand [...]
Loss Of Control And Transparency In The Cloud Era
One of the biggest worries organizations have about cloud computing is the unexpected outages and the impact of associated disruptions. In fact, some of the traditional vendors use this very issue to push FUD among their customers so that they can lock them in for the foreseeable future. Similarly, if anyone evangelizing cloud tells you [...]
Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce Not Only Matures But Has Plans For Enterprise Domination
Last week I attended Dreamforce 2011, Salesforce’s (previous CloudAve coverage) annual user conference which exceeded 40K attendees this year, and the blogosphere is already filled with Dreamforce posts. I am adding one more to the mix and I want to apologize straight away for my contribution to the echo chamber. I will try my best [...]
Shrinking Balls
In my last post, I wrote about the sentiment analysis of the Super Bowl and how brands are impacted by the real-time stream. That stream stimulates a Mean Girls phenomenon that causes people to be more passionate and start to bully as they become more popular. I know some analysts…
Drupal On The Cloud, Beyond Content Management
Drupal is widely recognized as a great content management system, but we strongly believe that Drupal offers a lot more than that – a framework, a platform, and a set of technology – to build and run enterprise applications, specifically on the cloud. This post is an attempt to explore the benefits and potential of Drupal on the cloud.
Salesforce.com’s $212 Million Acquisition of Heorku – A Sparkling Gem In Radiant Future Of Cloud And PaaS
I met James Lindenbaum, a founder of Heroku, in early 2009, at the Under The Radar conference in Mountain View. We had a long conversation on cloud as a great platform for Ruby, why Ruby on Rails is a better framework than PHP, and viability of PaaS as…
Suite vs Best of Breed – Let the Battle Begin (Yet Again)
A month or so ago I sat in a room with a small group of bloggers discussing the enterprise software space with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson and one sentence he said stuck in my mind: The same was is playing out in this space all over again. And just like last time, the suite’s will [...]
Summer Fun – Rant Redux #2
In an attempt to sleigh dragons and battle demons (or maybe that’s the other round) I often go into battle to try and get some sense and scale into the marketing messages that I hear from PR. 2009 seems to be destined to be remembered as the year of the Platform – when every startup [...]
SharePoint 2010 vs. MindTouch the Battle of the Platforms
(Editor’s note: we typically ask guest bloggers to refrain from promoting their own products and services. However we feel that this is not a promotional piece but a well-written comparative review which should be valuable to our readers, but with the caveat that Mark works for MindTouch. We encourage anyone and especially Microsoft to comment [...]
Jive Software vs. MindTouch – a Guide for Decision Makers
(Editor’s note: we typically ask guest bloggers to refrain from promoting their own products and services. However we feel that this is not a promotional piece but a well-written comparative review which should be valuable to our readers, but with the caveat that Mark works for MindTouch. We encourage anyone and especially Jive Software to [...]
