
Google Cloud Platform : Good Times Ahead
The tech behemoths Amazon, Microsoft & Google are established players in one of the battes that will change the future of customers view and investments of computing. This is an area with a potential hundred billion dollars plus that can be secured for the vendors – a lucrative space that each one wants to corner […]

The Cloud Economics : Emerging Signals
Over the weekend, I finished reading the recently released Microsoft paper on the “Economics of the cloud”. As I head to Denver today for participating in the defrag panel on the impact of cloud computing in the enterprise irregulars track, I just…

Cloud And New Roles For Players
It’s often widely acknowledged that all players in the software ecosystem needs to make adjustments and put efforts to embrace the world of cloud. We saw in the earlier posts the nature of issues that need to be confronted by buyers, IT service providers/Outsourcing firms, internal IT . Now lets look at some issues to […]

The Transient Nature Of Private Clouds
An interesting thread hes been going on within the enterprise irregulars group on what constitutes private clouds –as again very enlightened discussion therein. The issue that I want to talk about is if private cloud do indeed exist, then what is their adoption path ? Lets start from the beginning : the issue is can […]

Friday Fun: Survival Kit For Microsoft Employees Owning iPhone
Yesterday, Todd Bishop of TechFlash, while covering the Microsoft’s annual meeting at Safeco field, talked about an incident involving Steve Ballmer and a Microsoft employee holding an iPhone. As the story goes, it happened when Ballmer was making his big entrance — slapping hands, running around, and generally whooping things up, as is his tradition […]
GlueCon – It’s All About the User
What am I doing blogging at 2am? Preparing for my panel tomorrow which, although entitled “Platforms and Clouds: Building Out Web Apps in the Sky”, we’ll subvert to a different theme. The panel includes; Sam Charrington from Appistry Peter Coffee from Salesforce.com Jeff Collins from Intuit Jeff Fedor from Parkvu I met with some of […]