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Software Load Testing: A Perfect Match for the Cloud

Software Load Testing: A Perfect Match for the Cloud

By Ofir Nachmani on December 22, 2014

The cloud has allowed modern, web-scale IT companies, like Airbnb and Netflix, to grow and flourish into booming enterprises all over the web. With its flexibility and efficiency, it supports the demand of an organization’s growth from zero to millions of users, allowing them to prepare for this potential growth, as well. Before the cloud, […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Technology, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Acceptance testing, Alon Girmonsky, Amazon Web Services, Apache JMeter, application testing, BlazeMeter, business, cloud computing, Cloud Workloads, mobile app, open source, Quality assurance, Scalability, Software testing

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

Who are you, Cloud Broker?

Who are you, Cloud Broker?

By Ofir Nachmani on July 17, 2013

Cloud brokers were recognized and described by Gartner analysts as the `Intermediary services that support fast cloud adoption`. From their customers’ perspectives cloud brokers are the system integrators (SI) or the `cloud enablers` that support fast adoption and maintenance of cloud technologies. For example, the independent software vendor (ISV) can benefit greatly from a cloud […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged accenture, amazon, amazon cloud, Amazon Web Services, business, cloud, Cloud Broker, Cloud brokerage, cloud computing, Cloud Ecosystem, gartner, IT MSP, managed services, reuven cohen, system integrator | 1 Response

Awarding Enterprise Adoption of Cloud Computing

Awarding Enterprise Adoption of Cloud Computing

By Guest Authors on July 9, 2013

One of the longest-running criticisms of enterprise cloud computing is the dearth of publicly referenceable implementation case studies. Thankfully, this is starting to change. Indicators such as speaking at industry events and talking to reporters about what works and what doesn’t in cloud migration suggest that enterprises are starting to open up and share. There […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged business, cloud computing, cloud connect, Cloud Connect Chicago, innovation, Scott Bils

What Makes Cloud Transformation So Hard?

What Makes Cloud Transformation So Hard?

By Guest Authors on May 20, 2013

Transformation is not a new concept, and has been around a long time before cloud and big data.  It has always been a pretty nebulous term, but generally has referred to the fundamental reinvention or redesign of a business or function.  From an enterprise-wide perspective this typically has meant redefining everything from target markets, products […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Strategy, Technology | Tagged big data, business, Business transformation, cloud computing, rackspace | 1 Response

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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

Why You Should Kill Your Competitor in SaaS

Why You Should Kill Your Competitor in SaaS

By Jason M. Lemkin on December 5, 2012

IMHO, most SaaS CEOs/founders aren’t Killers.  They can’t be.  They’re Builders.  In fact, the two jobs of a founder/CEO are antithetically opposed to zero-sum and attack thinking.  First, at a strategic level, the founder/CEO has to see the future, a positive future, that is 100x bigger than today.  Focused on putting the internal pieces together […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged business, competition, echosign, market, saas

Cloud Architecture And Best Of Breed

Cloud Architecture And Best Of Breed

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 10, 2012

As cloud computing becomes all the more pervasive, people are rethinking the idea of buying software and hardware suites in favor of best of breed approach. In a way, cloud architecture makes it easy to avoid the integrated stack lock-in as interoperability through open APIs is taken for granted in most cases. At Boxworks 2012, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged api, bestofbreed, box, boxworks, boxworks 2012, business, cloud architecture, insights, legal, suite, Technology | 2 Responses

What's Cloud Management ?

What’s Cloud Management ?

By Ofir Nachmani on May 21, 2012

This last year has been immensely interesting for me as I watched the shaky cloud market mature. The change in people’s state of mind was rapid. The discussion advanced quickly from “the cloud will not prosper” to “Can we trust its security?”, and on to the current mood – “the cloud is here to stay”. […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged business, cloud brokers, cloud computing, cloud management, Independent software vendor, platform as a service, Service level agreement, software as a service, Systems Management, wikipedia

Tier 3 Brings Out The Heavy Guns!

Tier 3 Brings Out The Heavy Guns!

By Adron Hall on February 21, 2012

There are cloud offerings and then there are cloud offerings. As of today, Tier 3 just loaded up some big guns. Over the years Tier 3 has provided an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) play using various geographically located data-centers with high level disaster recovery, high availability (99.999%), utility compute, and high speed storage to […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, General, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged .NET Framework, business, cloud foundry, CloudComputing, Cloudfoundry, e-commerce, federated cloud, iron foundry, Jared Wray, platform services, vcloud, vmware

Geoloqi, CivicApps, and TriMet API/SDKs

Geoloqi, CivicApps, and TriMet API/SDKs

By Adron Hall on November 17, 2011

I’m heading off on yet another coding adventure this coming weekend. I can never get enough hackathons, startup weekends, and such. The energy, creativity, and learning is unbeatable at these types of events. This adventure will be mashing up a plethora of APIs (SDKs) and other capabilities to build something cool against. What it may […]

Posted in Application Software, Mobile, Open Source, Platforms | Tagged Application programming interface, business, conferences, Geoloqi, ideas, Meetups n' Such, My Updates, portland, Portland Oregon, Public transport, TriMet, Washington

Google Says Google+ Is Not Ready For Brands

Google Says Google+ Is Not Ready For Brands

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 6, 2011

Ever since Google+ was launched, I am playing around with it both for personal use as well as for professional use. I see Google+ eventually replacing Facebook for me (provided I convince my family and friends to start using Google+ and their throttling of invites is not helping my cause) on the personal side. Already, […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged brands, briefs, business, google, Marketers, social, social computing, social networks

8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

By Mark Suster on February 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “Time is the Enemy of all Deals.” When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t. So how should […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Eric Ries, Fundraising, Investor, Startup Advice, startups, vc funding, venture capital, venture funding

Why is Quora Censoring our Questions and Answers?

Why is Quora Censoring our Questions and Answers?

By Mark Fidelman on December 27, 2010

Answer: They are too smart for their own good and not smart enough for everyone else’s. Molly Ivins once quipped, “The strongest human emotion is neither love nor hate.  It is one person’s desire to f#ck with another person’s copy” Well we’re not talking Farenheit 451, more like a quarter of that temperature but complaints […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged business, censorship, facebook, Mark Cuban, Quora, twitter | 25 Responses

Cloud Computing Through the Eyes of 10-year-olds

Cloud Computing Through the Eyes of 10-year-olds

By Zoli Erdos on December 2, 2010

Oh, the typewriter.  Is it: A business machine? A museum artifact? If you are my generation, there was a time when you called it a business machine.  You typed letters (OK, perhaps your assistant did),  folded them, stuck them in envelopes, mailed them and waited a few weeks for the response. Yes, it was possible […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged business, cloud computing, digital generation, millenials, Typewriter

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