Dell Takes On Proprietary Clouds With An OpenStack Solution
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 […]
Tibbr 3.0: Making The Activity Streams Actionable
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 […]
Right Scale And Zend Announce Portable PHP PaaS
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 […]
TIBCO Nails It With Tibbr
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 […]
Looking Back 2010: Netflix’s NY Times Moment
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 […]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Orangescape Helps Business Users Design Applications On Cloud
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 […]
Survey Says Large Enterprises Are Already Active In The Cloud
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 […]
Gartner Forecasts 16% Increase In Enterprise SaaS Revenue During 2011
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 […]
CloudSwitch Releases New Version With Enhanced Enterprise Features
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 […]
Letting Enterprise Users Live In Harmon.ie
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 […]
Google Is Trying To Get Exchange Users Through Backdoor
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 […]
rPath And Collabnet Partner To Add Agility To Cloud Deployments
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 […]
Enterprise Cloud Computing And Wikileaks Saga
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 […]
Mindtouch Wants To Be The Nerve Center Enabling Social Business
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 […]
Big Jump In SaaS ERP Interest
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 […]
