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 [...]
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 [...]
Sun Rethinking Its Cloud Strategy?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife When Sun Microsystems announced its Cloud Strategy, I was one of the few who got really excited about it. One of the reasons was that the soundbites from the Sun had the term “openness” used again and again. It was my strong belief that such an approach could lead [...]
Zuora – Doing some of the Heavy Lifting for SaaS Vendors
At the recent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco I met with Tien Tzuo, CEO of Zuora, a provider focussing solely on billing solutions for SaaS vendors. Tien was part of the earliest days of salesforce.com and has seen the massive amounts of work, both initial and ongoing, that billing crates for SaaS vendors. While [...]
Open Federated Clouds And Sun’s Cloud Announcement
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Last week, Sun Microsystems announced their Cloud Computing plans. I spent some time thinking about their offerings and its impact on Cloud Computing. If we remove the chatter around the rumored IBM’s acquisition of Sun and proceed with the assumption that Sun remains an independent entity, I get some [...]
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 [...]
