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Enterprise Grade Cloud Enabled by the Ecosystem

Enterprise Grade Cloud Enabled by the Ecosystem

By Ofir Nachmani on May 30, 2013

While investing in building new data centers all over the world and creating the management overlay in order to be able to sell their hardware, IaaS operators are also relying on their ecosystem to support the evolving enterprises that go to the cloud (e.g. the “Enterprise Grade Cloud”). API First – The move to the […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, APIs, Application programming interface, aws, cloud computing, ecosystem, Network Attached Storage, Newvem

Why I Think Office 365 Is Not (Yet) Ready

Why I Think Office 365 Is Not (Yet) Ready

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 12, 2012

Earlier this week I had a Tweetbate with few folks who have a soft corner for Microsoft products on whether Office 365 (previous CloudAve coverage), Microsoft’s cloud based productivity suite, is a credible player in the modern cloud business applications space. When I say modern cloud business applications, I expect them to have, at least, […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged android, api, applications, cloud applications, cloud apps, ecosystem, enterprise software, google, insights, iOS, microsoft, mobile, office suite, office365, openapis, saas, social, wp7 | 4 Responses

AWS, VPC And Impact On The Ecosystem

AWS, VPC And Impact On The Ecosystem

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 21, 2011

No, this is not yet another post about Amazon’s new VPC announcement. Christian has already done a great job from the technical angle. This is about the chatter that came out from Clouderati immediately after the announcement from Amazon. During Cloud Connect 2011, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels went extra mile to emphasize how ecosystem is […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon vpc, aws, Cloudswitch, cohesiveft, ec2, ecosystem, insights, VPC | 2 Responses

Can We Ever Have Too Many Startups?

Can We Ever Have Too Many Startups?

By Chris Yeh on March 14, 2011

My recent post on the diatom bloom in the startup ecosystem prompted calls for me to dig deeper and provide more data. Far be it from me to disappoint!Chris Tacy asked, are we seeing too many startups? It’s a loaded question, but a good one.My instin…

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged bubble, ecosystem, investing, startups, VC

AWS CloudFormation: Poaching The Ecosystem?

AWS CloudFormation: Poaching The Ecosystem?

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 25, 2011

Amazon Web Services (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced AWS CloudFormation, which lets developers and system admins use recipes to create and provision resources in Amazon cloud. This is conceptually similar to Opscode’s Chef Recipes which lets ops folks configure some aspect of the systems in their ecosystem. Clearly, AWS must have seen how Chef […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, aws, aws cloudformation, bitnami, Cfengine, chef, cloudformation, ecosystem, insights, puppet, rightscale | 6 Responses

SaaS And Inverted OEM Channels

SaaS And Inverted OEM Channels

By Chirag Mehta on February 23, 2011

One of the things that I love to do: keep meeting the entrepreneurs to better understand the market and the challenges that they face. Recently, I met an entrepreneur that I highly admire. His company has SaaS components that other ISVs would OEM. Let’s say, you are an ISV that would OEM his components and […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged channels, cloud computing, ecosystem, escrow, OEM, saas, sass escrow

Heroku Ramps Up Its Ecosystem Play

Heroku Ramps Up Its Ecosystem Play

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 14, 2010

Heroku (See our previous coverage of Heroku here), the poster child of PaaS, has taken steps to ramp up their support for 3rd party service offerings by making it very easy for these providers to offer their service as add-ons to the Heroku platform. In this cloud based world, the very success of a cloud […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged Addons, cloud computing, ecosystem, heroku, paas, platform services

An Investors View on Twitter’s Announcements – I’m not Abandoning the Ecosystem

An Investors View on Twitter’s Announcements – I’m not Abandoning the Ecosystem

By Mark Suster on May 27, 2010

I have read much commentary on my Twitter stream (ironically) and in the press about how investors are going to abandon investments in the Twitter ecosystem because they seem to appear hostile to ecosystem partners.  Let me be the first to say that I don’t agree with this notion. Let me explain. 1. Regarding protecting […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged adly, ads, ecosystem, investments, Start-up Advice, twitter, twitter ads, vc funding

FUD in the House of SaaS – More on Suites

FUD in the House of SaaS – More on Suites

By Zoli Erdos on April 26, 2010

Recently I wrote about the evergreen Best-of-breed vs. Integrated All-in-One Suite debate again, arguing: Call me “old school”, but I also believe in the value of having one tightly integrated system for most business needs, and I believe it’s true not only for large corporations but much smaller businesses.  I don’t have CIO’s to back […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged all-in-one, application suites, Business ByDesign, business suite, ByD, collaboration, CRM, ecosystem, enterprise software, erp, fud, innovation, integration, mrp, netsuite, peoplesoft, pr, rootstock, saas, saas sales, SaaS suite, salesforce.com, sap, suitecloud, suitecloud10, suiteflow, unstructured data, wikis, workday

Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

By Mark Suster on April 12, 2010

So Twitter is buying and building Twitter clients.  I don’t find this surprising at all.  In fact, I said as much in September 09 at a Twitter conference in LA on a panel that Guy Kawasaki was moderating.  I said in the following video that I thought Twitter would by Seesmic, the company that makes one of […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged acquisitions, business model, chirp, ecosystem, social media, Tech Market Analysis, twitter

App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

By Mark Suster on February 18, 2010

Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced.  These phones were so over hyped.  They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.”  Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged android, app store, Apple, ecosystem, lock-in, Tech Market Analysis | 3 Responses

If it Swims Like a Duck and Quacks Like a Duck, then it Probably is a Duck. The Anti-SAP Duck.

If it Swims Like a Duck and Quacks Like a Duck, then it Probably is a Duck. The Anti-SAP Duck.

By Zoli Erdos on December 6, 2009

Two SAP-related conferences will run literally next door to each other in Boston next week.  One, which I am attending is the SAP Influencer Summit where analysts and the media get to meet SAP execs – the other is what some of us quickly dubbed the Anti-SAP Conference.  The Sapience conference  is focused on “Alternatives […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged anti-sap, baan, conferences, ecosystem, enterprise advocates, influencers, netsuite, peoplesoft, saas, sap, sap summit, sapience, siebel, software tco, sofwtare maintenance | 3 Responses

Distributing Innovation

Distributing Innovation

By Guest Authors on August 20, 2009

In case it’s not obvious by now, you get a lot of differing perspectives at Defrag. You’re just as likely to run into a guy that runs a hedge fund, as a gal that’s responsible for a multi-million dollar budget around “social software,” as a pair of co-founders who are barely legally able to order […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Marketing | Tagged conferences, defragcon, ecosystem, innovation, silicon valley, startups, talent pool

SAP Does Not Do Your Laundry

SAP Does Not Do Your Laundry

By Zoli Erdos on May 7, 2009

I found a hilarious story @ The Daily WTF (thanks Devan for introducing me to the site) Except for the dryers being infamous for not performing their most basic task – drying –students at the Sogn Student Village near the University of Oslo were happy with how the laundry system worked. Just swipe your laundry […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged ecosystem, eductaion, enterprise software, erp, erp integration, interface, laundry, management consulting, oslo, sap, system integrators, university, web apps | 3 Responses

Services, The Very Critical Part of the On Demand Ecosystem - Appirio

Services, The Very Critical Part of the On Demand Ecosystem – Appirio

By Guest Authors on December 4, 2008

Yesterday I had a great conversation with one of the founders of Appirio, a new age services organization founded in 2006. They are an 80-person company with an additional 20 people offshore through a partner. Their original investors include Salesforce.com along with a couple of angels. More recently Sequoia capital invested in them. Appirio is […]

Posted in Enterprise, General, Strategy | Tagged accenture, appirio, CIO, ecosystem, infosys, on-demand, paas, saas, services2.0

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