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Cloud Model 2014: Hybrid, Google, Brokerage, Startups and The Enterprise

Cloud Model 2014: Hybrid, Google, Brokerage, Startups and The Enterprise

By Ofir Nachmani on December 26, 2013

2013 has been incredibly eventful for the cloud industry, mostly for making itself an eminent presence in the mainstream IT market. Businesses of all sizes have made their ways to the cloud, confirming my 2013 predictions. Government agencies worldwide take the cloud seriously, as demonstrated by the CIA’s contract switch over to Amazon from IBM. […]

Posted in Analysis, Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, General, Infrastructure, Strategy, Technology | Tagged aws, azure, business, cloud computing, google, IBM, microsoft | 4 Responses

Don't Count Microsoft Out of the Public Cloud Race Just Yet

Don’t Count Microsoft Out of the Public Cloud Race Just Yet

By Guest Authors on April 21, 2013

Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Azure Infrastructure Services.  This marks a notable course correction for Microsoft, which initially provided Azure solely through a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model.  While many market observers assume that public cloud IaaS in the enterprise is now a three horse race between Amazon AWS, Rackspace and Google, they may […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, General, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged Amazon Web Services, azure, cloud computing, google, IBM, microsoft, platform as a service, rackspace | 1 Response

Build 2012: Microsoft Takes The First Step Towards A Coherent Platform Strategy

Build 2012: Microsoft Takes The First Step Towards A Coherent Platform Strategy

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 1, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged 2012, azure, build, build 2012, developers, insights, microsoft, office365, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, sharepoint, windows8 | 2 Responses

Microsoft, Apprenda And Service Providers - An Analysis

Microsoft, Apprenda And Service Providers – An Analysis

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 11, 2012

Microsoft (previous CloudAve coverage) and Apprenda (previous CloudAve coverage) yesterday made some announcements focussing on service providers at #wpc12 and it generated lots of buzz in the tech community. Even though there were lot of talk about the VMware angle in the story and about Microsoft planning to push Azure as the cloud OS of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged apprenda, azure, federated cloud ecosystems, federated clouds, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure services, insights, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, platform, platform services, service providers

AppFog, Apprenda And Azure: The Future Of PaaS Is Getting Defined

AppFog, Apprenda And Azure: The Future Of PaaS Is Getting Defined

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 6, 2012

Three news from three different vendors came out today but they are interconnected with one another. More interestingly, this has the potential to redefine PaaS landscape empowering the end users by helping them avoid infrastructure lock-in. AppFog and Apprenda have announced interoperability with Windows Azure which itself is undergoing a revamp (you can learn more […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged appfog, apprenda, azure, insights, lock-in, lockin, paas, paasfuture, platform, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, windowsazure | 4 Responses

Next Iteration Of PaaS: Microsoft Game Plan

Next Iteration Of PaaS: Microsoft Game Plan

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 5, 2012

In January, I proposed a simple model for the next iteration of PaaS, called Intelligent Platforms, which is centered around data. As we move into a world dominated by Big Data with mobile and various sensors churning out data several orders of magnitude more than even the petabyte scale, data is the new oil for […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged azure, azure marketplace, bigdata, hadoop, insights, intelligent platforms, microsoft, paas, paasfuture, paasv2, platform, platform as a service, platform services

Reality Distortion Field : 17 Companies’ Sitrep

Reality Distortion Field : 17 Companies’ Sitrep

By Adron Hall on December 12, 2011

I’m sitting on the bus this morning. As happens almost every day of the week. I’m flipping pages, sort of, it’s an eBook on my Kindle App. I’m reading about Steve Jobs taking over the Macintosh Program at Apple. How things started to fall into place for Apple, for the Macintosh, and how Jobs saw […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Open Source, Platforms, Strategy, Technology | Tagged Amazon Web Services, appfog, appharbor, Apple, aws, azure, cloud, cloud computing, Cloud Speak, cloudability, Cloudbees, Cloudfoundry, engineyard, heroku, howard hughes, Joyent, Macintosh, mongohq, mongolabs, nodejitsu, nodester, opscode, phpfog, Puppet Labs, steve jobs, The Future, utility computing | 3 Responses

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Apprenda And Redhat Update Their Platforms

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Apprenda And Redhat Update Their Platforms

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 15, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged .NET, .net paas, apprenda, azure, Cloudbees, Cumulogic, insights, java, java paas, microsoft, openshift, paas, paasfuture, platform, platform as a service, platform services, redhat

High Availability From Non-High Availability: OpenStack, Dell, Crowbar, Private Clouds, and Moving the Enterprise Forward…

High Availability From Non-High Availability: OpenStack, Dell, Crowbar, Private Clouds, and Moving the Enterprise Forward…

By Adron Hall on November 1, 2011

The Environment Recently a conversation came up about high availability in a traditional Enterprise Environment. Let me paint the picture for this environment; “This environment has several hundred servers, and several hundred applications. These application range in simple client server applications to n-tier applications strung across multiple services and machines. Some are resilient, some are […]

Posted in Infrastructure, Open Source | Tagged architecture, aws, azure, Cloud Speak

Following Good Practice, The Negative Bits About Windows Azure First, But Gems Included! :D

Following Good Practice, The Negative Bits About Windows Azure First, But Gems Included! :D

By Adron Hall on September 7, 2011

Ok, I’ve used Windows Azure steadily over the last year and a half.  I’ve fought with the SDK so much that I stopped using it. I decided I’d put together this recap of what has driven me crazy and then put together something about the parts that I really like, the awesome bits, the parts […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged access control, azure, cloud, cloud compute, cloud computing, Cloud Speak, cloud storage, microsoft, rants, reviews, service bus, windows azure | 1 Response

Citrix Acquires Cloud.com: An Analysis

Citrix Acquires Cloud.com: An Analysis

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 12, 2011

Citrix (previous CloudAve coverage), the virtualization player who is gaining some decent traction recently, today announced the acquisition of Cloud.com (previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud platform player with considerable traction on the side of Telcos, Service providers and even enterprises. Initially, Citrix will push the Cloud.com product lines and Citrix branded versions will […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged abiquo, acquisition, azure, azure appliance, citrix, cloud platform, cloud.com, cloupia, federated clouds, iaas, insights, m&a, microsoft, nimbula, open source, opensource, openstack, System center 5, vcloud director, vmops, vmware | 13 Responses

Big News on Day #3 of OS Bridge

Big News on Day #3 of OS Bridge

By Adron Hall on June 23, 2011

Microsoft announced today that they’ll be supporting an effort to get Node.js working on Windows. Mary Foley picked it up quick, but also so did Node creator Ryan Dhal. This, being the explosion of support for Node.js, is excellent news. This further enables JavaScript for the whole stack, on any operating system stack. Getting a […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged azure, CYGWIN, Google Chrome, Javascript, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, My Updates, node, node.js, operating systems, windows, windows azure

Fujitsu Launches Their Platform Using Windows Azure Appliance

Fujitsu Launches Their Platform Using Windows Azure Appliance

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 8, 2011

Fujitsu (previous CloudAve coverage), the Asian giant starting to focus on cloud computing, yesterday announced the launch of Global Cloud Platform powered by Windows Azure (previous CloudAve coverage). This is important not just from the Fujitsu point of view but also from Microsoft’s point of view. This is the first official production release of the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged azure, azure appliance, briefs, fujitsu, microsoft, windows azure, windowsazure

Cloud Failure, FUD, and The Whole AWS Oatage…

Cloud Failure, FUD, and The Whole AWS Oatage…

By Adron Hall on April 25, 2011

Ok.  First a few facts. AWS has had a data center problem that has been ongoing for a couple of days. AWS has NOT been forthcoming with much useful information. AWS still has many data centers and cloud regions/etc up and live, able to keep their customers up and live. Many people have NOT built […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, architecture, aws, azure, Bob Warfield, cloud, cloud computing, Cloud Speak, Frédéric Bastiat, PSA, rants | 2 Responses

Microsoft Showcases Toyota As A Big Azure Win

Microsoft Showcases Toyota As A Big Azure Win

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 6, 2011

Ever since Azure was released to public, Microsoft has been trying hard to showcase adoption trends. In spite of their best efforts, they couldn’t slow down the momentum Amazon Web Services has in the cloud services space. Even though they highlighted some customers during last PDC, pundits are skeptical about the kind of impact Azure […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged azure, briefs, microsoft, microsoft SQL Azure, telematics, toyota, windows azure | 2 Responses

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