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Krishnan Subramanian

Krishnan Subramanian

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Director, OpenShift Strategy at Red Hat. Founder of Rishidot Research, a research community focused on services world. His focus is on Platform Services, Infrastructure and the role of Open Source in the services era. Krish has been writing @ CloudAve from its inception and had also been part of GigaOm Pro Analyst Group. The opinions expressed here are his own and are neither representative of his employer, Red Hat, nor CloudAve, nor its sponsors.

From Red Shoes To Red Hat

From Red Shoes To Red Hat

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 24, 2013

I have been advocating cloud and services based architecture for several years. I come to cloud evangelism and analyst role with some ops background. The first thing I learned about cloud is that we cannot take anything for granted. Before I came into IT, I was a Physicist by training and was doing research in […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Misc | Tagged announcement, job, Jobs, krishnan, Krishnan Subramanian, red hat, redhat | 4 Responses

Quick Note: Dropbox - Mailbox Marriage Is A Hail Mary Pass

Quick Note: Dropbox – Mailbox Marriage Is A Hail Mary Pass

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 15, 2013

This morning an acquisition news got techies excited about Dropbox buying the iOS app with lots of buzz but few invites, Mailbox. In short, this is a hail mary pass after Google announced that you can now attach large attachments with Google Drive integration in Gmail. Dropbox had to react and they reacted by buying […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged dropbox, m&a, mailbox app | 1 Response

On Robustness And Resiliency - Part 1

On Robustness And Resiliency – Part 1

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 25, 2013

When you talk about cloud computing with the enterprises and tell them how cloud requires a different approach to designing applications, I get the biggest pushback from them. Since most of the large enterprises are used to the idea that expensive and powerful hardware that seldom fails is the only way to build robustness into […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, design for failure, DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS, RESILIENCE, ROBUSTNESS, sla

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New Meme: Business Users Are The IT

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 23, 2013

For the past two years, I have been advocating PaaS as the future of cloud services and how developers are the face of the IT in the PaaS era. I have long argued that as PaaS takes over the IT infrastructure in the organizations, we will see a shift in who holds the key to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged business, business users, developers, devops, insights, IT, ops, services | 1 Response

PaaS Pivot: Big Data At The Core Of Platform Services

PaaS Pivot: Big Data At The Core Of Platform Services

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 17, 2013

As we go into 2013, I keep thinking about the evolution of the Platform as a Service and wonder what is in store for this segment this year. As Platform Services are one of my core focus areas of research, I thought I will start off this year with a post on this topic. For […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Cloudfoundry, Continuuity, insights, intelligent platforms, paas, paasv2, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms

OpenStack Infighting: Will It Affect The Project?

OpenStack Infighting: Will It Affect The Project?

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 16, 2013

It has been 2+ years since OpenStack was launched and the project is slowly maturing as organizations are exploring the use of OpenStack for their private cloud needs. As money gets into the ecosystem, it is natural for bickering to start among the ecosystem players. In fact, naysayers of the project has been saying this […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged briefs, iaas, open source, opensource, openstack | 7 Responses

Open Source Metrics: Let Us Get Realistic

Open Source Metrics: Let Us Get Realistic

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 8, 2013

Recently a blogger wrote an article comparing the mailing list interaction in the communities around major open source infrastructure projects. It is a personal project by a blogger using various data sources available in the internet. But the post kickstarted discussion among the punditry talking about whether OpenStack or CloudStack is the top ranking infrastructure […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloudstack, engagement, eucalyptus, insights, metrics, open source, opensource, openstack, popularity | 6 Responses

IBM SmartCloud Docs Enters The Market But Does It Still Matter?

IBM SmartCloud Docs Enters The Market But Does It Still Matter?

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 4, 2013

Last month IBM released SmartCloud Docs (formerly called IBM Lotuslive Symphony) at a pricing competitive to other offerings in the market like Google Docs or Microsoft Office 365. It is free for existing SmartCloud Advanced customers and $3 per user per month for SmartCloud Standard customers. It is based on Apache OpenOffice and offers solid […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged google docs, IBM, IBM Connections, insights, Microsoft Office 365, office suite, office365, smartcloud docs | 2 Responses

Three Cloud Visionaries in 2012

Three Cloud Visionaries in 2012

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 3, 2013

2012 is over and blogosphere is buzz with post-mortem and predictions. I thought I will jump in and write about three people in the cloud computing space who inspired me with the work they are doing. Let me make it clear that there are many others who had an impact in the space but these […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2012, amazon, cloud, cloud computing, insights, jonathan murray, Mike Hoskins, pervasive, visionaries, visionary, warner music group, werner, werner vogels, wmg

Why CloudFoundry Spin Off Is Interesting

Why CloudFoundry Spin Off Is Interesting

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 4, 2012

The rumors are true with VMware publicly announcing that CloudFoundry will be spun off as a separate organization along with EMC’s Greenplum and VMware’s vFabric. This unit will be headed by Paul Maritz, former CEO of VMware. This leaves VMware to focus on their Software Defined DataCenter initiative which they announced during last VMworld. I […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged big data, bigdata, Cloudfoundry, emc, paas, paas v2, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, vmware | 3 Responses

Social Silos: Is Suite The Answer?

Social Silos: Is Suite The Answer?

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 29, 2012

The cloud is supposed to help organizations embrace best of breed applications for their needs. Cloud is supposed to make suite based approach to software consumption irrelevant. Cloud is supposed to enable best of breed without the integration mess of the traditional software era. But it looks like the opposite is happening, especially when it […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged bestofbreed, insights, silos, social, Social Business, Social Enterprise, social silos, suite

Eucalyptus' AWS Bet

Eucalyptus’ AWS Bet

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 27, 2012

Yesterday Eucalyptus announced the new version of their software and, in the process, more closely aligned with AWS. It is not surprising given the ground realities of cloud infrastructure market. I would even argue that it is a smart bet by Eucalyptus which could help them as enterprises are seriously considering AWS off late. Before […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, eucalyptus, eucalyptus 3.2, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, insights | 4 Responses

CloudFoundry Core May Not Be Important But CloudFoundry Is Important

CloudFoundry Core May Not Be Important But CloudFoundry Is Important

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 26, 2012

Two weeks back I wrote a post arguing that CloudFoundry Core is not important. I had argued that even though CloudFoundry Core is done with an intention to make application portability seamless across various CloudFoundry deployments, the business considerations of PaaS vendors in the ecosystem will ensure that application portability is not a given. The […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Cloudfoundry, cloudfoundry core, insights, open source, opensource, paas, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, vmware | 1 Response

Why CloudFoundry Core Is (Not) Important?

Why CloudFoundry Core Is (Not) Important?

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 16, 2012

On Tuesday, VMware’s CloudFoundry project announced the availability of CloudFoundry Core, a baseline to test if an application is compatible to CloudFoundry’s core open source release. The CloudFoundry Core is based on a set of components that forms the baseline for the definition of core. Right now, they have limited set of programming languages and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged application portability, Cloudfoundry, insights, open source, opensource, paas, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, portability, tier 3, tier3, vmware | 3 Responses

Conference Report: Workday Rising

Conference Report: Workday Rising

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 12, 2012

Last week I attended the analyst event organized along with Workday Rising 2012 conference. Workday Rising is Workday’s (previous CloudAve coverage)(Disclosure: Workday is the sponsor of CloudAve and this is my own personal opinion but they paid for my travel and stay) user conference and it was their attempt to interact closely with their customers […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged #wday, Analytics, big data, bigdata, ensw, Enterprise, enterprise software, insights, Technology, technology summit, workday, workday analytics, workday recruit, Workday Rising, workday rising 2012

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