New Relic Tells Us Mac Firefox 4 Beats Windows Chrome 11 In Performance
New Relic (previous CloudAve coverage), the SaaS based application performance monitoring solution provider, recently added a real user monitoring feature as a part of their SaaS solution. The idea is to offer a solution to track the user experience of the application in real time. It tracks vital performance metrics like Browser response time Slowest […]
GDrive, Rackspace Cloud Drive, Syncplicity Drive – It’s a Veritable Driving Range up in the Clouds
Anyone who contends that we’re not reaching some kind of critical mass with complete solutions from cloud services should really look at what’s going on behind the scenes. Initially used for just point solutions by way of SaaS, and then infrastructure plays (Gmail replacing exchange, Amazon Web Services for hardware), we’re now rapidly getting to […]
When Browsers Are Just as Bad as Your OS
As any good Cloud evangelist worth his salt will tell you, a browser beats operating system hands down for all the usual reasons, e.g. platform agnostic, reduced complexity etc. etc. However, I get the feeling sometimes that browsers have gone the way of most operating systems lately. Let me explain. Quite often in recent days, […]
Mozilla Is Too Big To Fail
Larry Dignan at ZDNetmakes an important point about the financial future of Mozilla Foundation. In his post, he points to Mozilla’s over reliance on Google and wonders if it is good for its future. The financial for 2008 didn’t show any downward trend. Rather, they showed a consolidated revenue of $78.6 million, up 5 percent […]
Video: Chrome OS Explained
Today Google is holding an event to introduce Chrome OS. Here is a video explaining in simple terms the concept behind Chrome OS. Here is my skeptical post about Chrome OS immediately after the announcement and Zoli’s post on how Google takes a Microsoft kind of approach to their release.
Sony VAIO PCs Have Been Selling with Google Chrome as Default Browser for Quite a While
Several blogs report the “news”, based on a Financial Times article that Sony VAIO PC’s will soon be selling with Google’s Chrome browser as default browser in the US. Nice, and it will no doubt help Google’s browser which still has less than 2% market share. But it’s not exactly news. A month or so […]
Google's Chrome Strategy And Lessons For SaaS Vendors
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, Ars Technica pointed us to Google’s Chrome strategy. Google has revealed plans for a Chrome cloud service that will allow users to synchronize browser data with their Google accounts. The synchronization framework, which is still at an early stage of development, will arrive in Google’s open source Chromium project later this […]
Google Chrome OS: Pre-Announcement in Classic Microsoft-style
Image via Wikipedia There’s hardly anything to add to the actual announcement– the whole world is talking about it, and I don’t just mean TechMeme entirely taken over: when Reuters, The New York Times and just about all mainstream media reports it, you know there’s something big – but is it nuclear? We’ll have to […]
Adding to the ChromeOS Deluge…
The last thing I want to do is add to a meme – here at CloudAve we pride ourselves on having a modicum of insight and not just regurgitating press releases. Krish’s post this evening is a case in point – while most of the world is jumping up and down with excitement about the […]
Firefox 3.5 Dowload Day Progress – Google Gears, Mozilla Prism Missed Launch
Download Day for Firefox 3.5 is decidedly more understated than 3.0 was. A lot less hype prior to the release, no spectacular outages, and a respectable 1M+ dowloads so far, which is nice, but way behind Firefox 3.0’s Guiness Record. Blog visitor stats are very biased metrics, they tend to lean towards the “new and […]
Opera Unite: Do You Really Want to Run a Web Server on your Computer?
The little browser that could … was how the Opera browser was often referred to around 1996-98. The best browser packed with innovative features that Internet Explorer and Firefox were forced to copy: tabbed browsing, popup-blockers, saved sessions, zooming, mouse gestures to name a few. The fastest browser that did everything out-of-the box that Firefox […]
Google Keeps the Gates to the Clouds Open to Hackers
Image via CrunchBase, source unknown If you are a security professional or someone who has done a course on computer security, you will know that the security of your computing environment is as strong as the weakest link in the network and/or users. A single user in your network who is careless about the passwords […]
Google Chrome is a Failure… Surprised?
Last month Google released its Chrome browser to the public and as usual it made a lot of PR noise (and a comic book) and got lots of favorable reviews When combined with Gears, which allows for offline access, Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on […]
