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 [...]
Reactions to AmEx’s Acquisition of Revolution Money
Karen Webster of Market Platform Dynamics asked me to share some quick reactions on the announced acquisition of Revolution Money by AmEx this morning. As a result, my thoughts are cross-posted on PYMNTS.com. Karen asked me to address the following questions/issues: What was your initial reaction to the news? My initial reaction was that AmEx move to purchase [...]
Box.net – Another Frontal Assault on Microsoft
You’ve got to hand it to box.net (read about ‘em here), fresh from their last campaign which squarely put them head to head with Microsoft (see the evidence here) Box is today announcing that it is launching an application on the salesforce.com app exchange. While this may be a seemingly boring announcements, digging deeper into [...]
Leveraging Platforms
Disclosure – I was assisted in attending the recent Enteprise 2.0 conference in Boston by Intuit – however, while they are mentioned in the post, this is not a look at Intuit in particular, rather generally at platform plays. After spending time talking to Intuit about it’s Partner Platform a few weeks ago, and getting [...]
Cloud Computing Risks – EDOS
Enterprises are still worried about the security on the Clouds. Recently, in his Thanksgiving Day post, Christofer Hoff raises the possibility of another level of vulnerability that could affect anyone, not just the enterprises, using the utility nature of Cloud Computing infrastructure to scale. He calls this kinda “attack” as Economic Denial of Sustainability. Let me rephrase his description of [...]
