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Dell Takes On Proprietary Clouds With An OpenStack Solution

Dell Takes On Proprietary Clouds With An OpenStack Solution

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 1, 2011

Last week at OSCON 2011, Dell unveiled Dell OpenStack Cloud, its OpenStack based solution to go against the likes of IBM targeting both the enterprise and service provider markets. While talking about Dell’s attempts against the unified computing efforts by IBM, Cisco, HP and Oracle, I highlighted how Dell is taking a more “open” approach […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, cloud computing, crowbar, dell, dell openstack solution, enterprises, iaas, Infrastructure services, openstack, oscon, oscon 2011, private clouds, public clouds, service providers, video | 1 Response

Tibbr 3.0: Making The Activity Streams Actionable

Tibbr 3.0: Making The Activity Streams Actionable

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 28, 2011

Tibco, the enterprise infrastructure software company, today announced an upgrade for their enterprise social networking product Tibbr (previous CloudAve coverage). I was very impressed with Tibbr when they launched in January because they brought together people, process and context in a way to drive efficiency in the enterprise workflow. With this release, they are taking […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged collaboration, enterprises, insights, social, social computing, social networks, tibbr, tibco

Right Scale And Zend Announce Portable PHP PaaS

Right Scale And Zend Announce Portable PHP PaaS

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 19, 2011

RightScale (see previous CloudAve coverage), one of the leading cloud management companies, and Zend (see previous CloudAve coverage) have announced a solution to deploy and manage business critical PHP applications in the cloud. In this era of open federated PaaS, pushed into prominence by VMware last week, this is RightScale’s way of jumping into the […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged briefs, enterprises, federated clouds, federated paas, open paas, paas, rightscale, zend

TIBCO Nails It With Tibbr

TIBCO Nails It With Tibbr

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 26, 2011

TIBCO, the enterprise infrastructure software company, this week announced their foray into Social Computing when they announced the GA of Tibbr, their attempt to crack the enterprise social collaboration market. Tibbr is a social computing tool for enterprises which will let employees, customers and partners to interact with each other and, also, with information and […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged collaboration, enterprises, insights, social, social computing, social networks, tibbr, tibco | 6 Responses

Looking Back 2010: Netflix's NY Times Moment

Looking Back 2010: Netflix’s NY Times Moment

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 29, 2010

This is my third post in the Looking Back 2010 series where I highlight important cloud related events in this year. After OpenStack and Salesforce.com’s Heroku acquisition news, the third important news from my point of view is Netflix’s embrace of AWS for all their IT needs. This is very important for the validation of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2010, amazon, aws, enterprises, lookingback2010, Netflix | 3 Responses

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Orangescape Helps Business Users Design Applications On Cloud

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Orangescape Helps Business Users Design Applications On Cloud

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 22, 2010

Orangescape is an India based PaaS provider offering a higher level of abstraction for business users to design applications without any programming knowledge. They are clearly targeting a group of users who want to develop apps based on the business logic without getting their hands dirty in code. I recently had a chance to talk […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged apaas, BUSINESS APPLICATIONS, business apps, enterprises, India, orangescape, paas | 1 Response

Survey Says Large Enterprises Are Already Active In The Cloud

Survey Says Large Enterprises Are Already Active In The Cloud

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 20, 2010

On the sidelines of Dreamforce, I had a chance to talk to two people who have their hands dirty in the enterprise IT. During our conversation, one of them mentioned to me that he wouldn’t be surprised if an analyst firm comes out and says that all the enterprises are active in cloud computing in […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged ca technologies, df10, enterprises, IT, large enterprises, private clouds, public clouds, survey | 1 Response

Gartner Forecasts 16% Increase In Enterprise SaaS Revenue During 2011

Gartner Forecasts 16% Increase In Enterprise SaaS Revenue During 2011

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 18, 2010

Gartner has released a forecast that predicts a 16.2 percent increase in SaaS revenue in the enterprise application market from 2010. The SaaS revenue in the enterprise application software market in 2009 was $7.9 Billion and, according to the analyst firm, it is forecasted to increase to $9.2 Billion in 2010, a solid 15.7 percent […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, enterprises, forecast, gartner, predictions, saas | 4 Responses

CloudSwitch Releases New Version With Enhanced Enterprise Features

CloudSwitch Releases New Version With Enhanced Enterprise Features

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 13, 2010

CloudSwitch, Burlington based company founded in 2008 to make life easy for enterprises to extend their datacenter to the cloud, today announced the release of version 2 of their software with enhanced enterprise features. This release quickly follows version 1 of their software released about 6 months ago. With CloudSwitch, enterprises can easily run their […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon vpc, Cloudswitch, datacenters, enterprises, network bridge, public clouds, VPC | 1 Response

Letting Enterprise Users Live In Harmon.ie

Letting Enterprise Users Live In Harmon.ie

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 10, 2010

Yesterday at the GigaOm Net:work event, one of the Launchpad finalists was an interesting company called Harmon.ie (known as Mainsoft since 1993 and see Ben’s previous coverage here). The event itself was focussed on how collaboration happens today and how we will work in the future using the newer technologies that are pushing the envelope […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged collaboration, enterprises, GigaOM, gmail, google apps, google docs, harmon.ie, lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, network 2010, sharepoint | 3 Responses

Google Is Trying To Get Exchange Users Through Backdoor

Google Is Trying To Get Exchange Users Through Backdoor

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 9, 2010

One of the interesting acquisitions by Google, in my point of view, was their 2007 acquisition of Postini. In fact, it was the main driving force behind somewhat successful push of Google Apps into the enterprises. Today, Google is wearing the Postini mask again as it attempts a long term strategy to get more exchange […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged business continuity, email, enterprise email, enterprises, exchange, google apps, google message continuity, postini | 2 Responses

rPath And Collabnet Partner To Add Agility To Cloud Deployments

rPath And Collabnet Partner To Add Agility To Cloud Deployments

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 30, 2010

rPath (see previous CloudAve coverage), the North Carolina based company offering deployment and maintenance solutions across physical, virtual and cloud environments, has partnered with Collabnet, whose popular platform is used for distributed software development, to bring in agility to cloud application deployment. They announced their partnership today with the hope that they can deliver an […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged agile, agility, cloud computing, Collabnet, devops, enterprises, ops, rpath

Enterprise Cloud Computing And Wikileaks Saga

Enterprise Cloud Computing And Wikileaks Saga

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 29, 2010

In my previous post, I argued about how public clouds will eventually dominate the enterprise IT scene though better economics. I also pointed out that it is not going to happen anytime sooner because of concerns about security and compliance. Many of the public cloud advocates dismiss such enterprise concerns immediately and some even want […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged enterprises, private clouds, public clouds, Security, wikileaks | 4 Responses

Mindtouch Wants To Be The Nerve Center Enabling Social Business

Mindtouch Wants To Be The Nerve Center Enabling Social Business

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 18, 2010

Last week I attended Enterprise 2.0 conference and I saw the enthusiasm among businesses to leverage the Social Business tools to greatly increase the productivity within the organization. In my opinion, these social business tools should have the following three essential characteristics (well, there are few others but these are the ones I consider to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged collaboration, Collaboration tools, dachis group, enterprise 2.0, enterprises, mindtouch, open source, Social Business, social computing, social media, technical documentation, wiki | 5 Responses

Big Jump In SaaS ERP Interest

Big Jump In SaaS ERP Interest

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 15, 2010

ERP has been considered the last frontier for SaaS and we have seen tremendous resistance from even organizations who were otherwise open to the idea of SaaS. Part of the reason was that SaaS ERP offerings were not robust enough for deployment, unlike say CRM applications. The most important reason for the resistance is that […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged 2010, Aberdeen group, enterprises, erp, research, research report, saas, saas erp | 7 Responses

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