Commerce In The Networked World: Mashery leads The Way
Mashery (previous CloudAve coverage), the enterprise-grade API provider, today announced the availability of Distributed Commerce, an API platform that takes the commerce to the doorsteps of modern day networked users. In this era of smartphones, tablets and social networks, users expect vendors to bring commerce to where they are than going to an e-commerce website. […]
Apigee Asks: Is Your API PCI Compliant?
Apigee (previous CloudAve coverage), the API management company formerly known as Sonoa Systems, yesterday launched PCI-Compliant API management solution in the cloud. As we move into an increasingly platform based world where APIs are the key, the next important issue we, as an industry, have to tackle is security. Already companies like Apigee, Mashery, etc […]
India’s First Full Fledged Cloud Infrastructure Offering
Tata Communications, India’s leading service provider, announced an expansion of their cloud offerings, making it the first comprehensive India based cloud solution available for customers. Today, they announced the addition of Instacompute and Instaoffice to their list of offerings. The launch marks the company’s expansion in the cloud space to deliver self-service, pay-as-you-use IT application […]
Cloud Vendors Push US Congress For More Data Protection
One of the biggest concerns regarding Cloud Computing is about the privacy of data on third party servers. Along with data thefts that could happen due to bad security policies of the vendors, there is always a threat from overzealous governments trying to use their authority to take anyone’s data out from the third party […]
Cloud Vendors Plead For Uniform Regulations In Europe
I have been covering the European cloud computing market a little bit here at Cloud Ave. One of the reasons for the failure of public cloud providers in that market is the strict privacy laws that requires the cloud providers to keep the data within the borders. Even though AWS has support for EU region, […]
Google Partners With Tata Communications To Take Google Apps To Indian Businesses
Google has been successful in pushing their hosted office suite with businesses in USA. Even though they are nowhere closer to dislodging Microsoft in this space, they are slowly but steadily eating away the Microsoft marketshare. I think their move to target the CIOs of the future by luring the educational institutions (which Microsoft did […]
Rainstor Addresses Data Retention And Retrieval Needs For Big Data
Rainstor, formerly from UK with the name Clearspace Software Ltd., is announcing the release of new version of their product called Rainstor 4. With this release, the currently San Francisco based company is positioning themselves as a big player in the data retention and retrieval market for Big Data. With their expertise in online information […]
Vindicia Builds a Tunnel to Relaxation
PCI compliance is hard. Hard, expensive and time consuming. Third party subscription and billing vendors have attempted to remove as much of the burden of PCI compliance from their customers but one barrier remains – any business that wants to allow customers to enter their credit card details in their own site, and in familiar […]
Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players – Not So Fast
This is the second post on the topic I have been emphasizing on many different forums. My earlier post, Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players – A Shortsighted Idea, laid out philosophical and economic reasonings against the idea of the emergence of handful of infrastructure providers. This idea is a pet theme for many cloud pundits. […]
Sonoa Systems – The Gatekeeper To Your Cloud Services
From time to time, we profile companies in the Cloud Computing space. In this edition, let us check out Sonoa Systems, a provider of software/virtual appliance to manage SaaS APIs and other webservices. Sonoa Systems, founded in 2004, is based in Santa Clara, California with offices in Bangalore, India. The company is backed by some high profile investors including Norwest Venture Partners, Bay […]
Cloud Vendors Should Act Now
The Star Tribune from Minneapolis-St. Paul carried an article, few days back, on the issues related to keeping the data on the clouds. The author clearly identifies the issues we face in the society as we move further into the adoption of cloud computing technologies The danger is less that the cloud will be a Wild West than that […]
