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[Some of] what you need to know about the cloud for 2013
Towards the end of last year, David Linthicum and I joined GigaOM’s Adam Lesser on a skype chat to take a look back at cloud successes and failures in 2012, and forward to cloud opportunities in 2013. GigaOM released the conversation as a podcast this morning. Amazon, Rackspace, Google, OpenStack, DropBox, and more get a […]

Three Cloud Visionaries in 2012
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 […]

Build 2012: Microsoft Takes The First Step Towards A Coherent Platform Strategy
This week I had a chance to spend some time at the Build 2012 conference, Microsoft’s developer conference. Though I didn’t get a chance to attend the keynotes or any briefings, I spent time talking to Microsoft employees, developers and partners attending the event. I thought I will share my take on Microsoft’s platform strategy based […]

Pre BoxWorks Thoughts: Box To Play Best Of Breed Game?
I am on the plane to attend BoxWorks 2012, the annual user conference of Box. Before hearing anything from Box, I am trying to make sense of Box’s strategy based on what I heard in the past 3 weeks during Salesforce and Tibco events. It will be interesting to hear from Box in the next […]

Dreamforce 2012: Betting On Social Enterprise
Dreamforce 2012 was held last week at San Francisco with large number of attendees from all over the world. If the conference numbers are any indication of market performance, Salesforce is giving a tough fight to Oracle but they rarely indicate anything significant other than showing enthusiasm among their users. With master showman Marc Benioff […]

OS Bridge 2012 :: Day #1 :: How I Got Here…
Today was the kick off of OS Bridge 2012. I jumped aboard my trusty steed (bicycle) for the mighty 6 block rider to the conference. Yeah, I could have just walked, but I just felt like getting their the fastest way possible. After arriving I was immediately faced with two great greetings. The first one …

Win A Free Ticket To Forecast 2012 Conference And/Or Deploycon 2012
Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) (previous CloudAve coverage) is running a conference called Forecast 2012 to shape the future of cloud computing. This is an enterprise focussed panel with some interesting keynotes and engaging panels. Check out the agenda for yourselves. ODCA has agreed to give away one ticket to the event for CloudAve readers. […]

IBM PureApplication Systems: It Is Not PaaS. Period. But
IBM Impact has been going on at Las Vegas and the buzz around the event is IBM PureSystems. I see a lot of excitement around PureSystems both from IBM side and their customer side. However, I also see some confusion around the messaging. IBM has been sending ambiguous signals around IBM PureApplication Systems which is […]

Predictions For 2012 – Cloud Expo Edition
I know it is too early for 2012 predictions and let us consider this to be the preview of what will come towards the end of this year. Cloud Expo is round the corner and Jeremy Geelan asked me to send him five predictions for 2012 as a part of Cloud Expo preview. They have […]