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New Meme: Business Users Are The IT

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 23, 2013

For the past two years, I have been advocating PaaS as the future of cloud services and how developers are the face of the IT in the PaaS era. I have long argued that as PaaS takes over the IT infrastructure in the organizations, we will see a shift in who holds the key to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged business, business users, developers, devops, insights, IT, ops, services | 1 Response

PaaS Pivot: Big Data At The Core Of Platform Services

PaaS Pivot: Big Data At The Core Of Platform Services

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 17, 2013

As we go into 2013, I keep thinking about the evolution of the Platform as a Service and wonder what is in store for this segment this year. As Platform Services are one of my core focus areas of research, I thought I will start off this year with a post on this topic. For […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Cloudfoundry, Continuuity, insights, intelligent platforms, paas, paasv2, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms

Open Source Metrics: Let Us Get Realistic

Open Source Metrics: Let Us Get Realistic

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 8, 2013

Recently a blogger wrote an article comparing the mailing list interaction in the communities around major open source infrastructure projects. It is a personal project by a blogger using various data sources available in the internet. But the post kickstarted discussion among the punditry talking about whether OpenStack or CloudStack is the top ranking infrastructure […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloudstack, engagement, eucalyptus, insights, metrics, open source, opensource, openstack, popularity | 6 Responses

IBM SmartCloud Docs Enters The Market But Does It Still Matter?

IBM SmartCloud Docs Enters The Market But Does It Still Matter?

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 4, 2013

Last month IBM released SmartCloud Docs (formerly called IBM Lotuslive Symphony) at a pricing competitive to other offerings in the market like Google Docs or Microsoft Office 365. It is free for existing SmartCloud Advanced customers and $3 per user per month for SmartCloud Standard customers. It is based on Apache OpenOffice and offers solid […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged google docs, IBM, IBM Connections, insights, Microsoft Office 365, office suite, office365, smartcloud docs | 2 Responses

Three Cloud Visionaries in 2012

Three Cloud Visionaries in 2012

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 3, 2013

2012 is over and blogosphere is buzz with post-mortem and predictions. I thought I will jump in and write about three people in the cloud computing space who inspired me with the work they are doing. Let me make it clear that there are many others who had an impact in the space but these […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2012, amazon, cloud, cloud computing, insights, jonathan murray, Mike Hoskins, pervasive, visionaries, visionary, warner music group, werner, werner vogels, wmg

Social Silos: Is Suite The Answer?

Social Silos: Is Suite The Answer?

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 29, 2012

The cloud is supposed to help organizations embrace best of breed applications for their needs. Cloud is supposed to make suite based approach to software consumption irrelevant. Cloud is supposed to enable best of breed without the integration mess of the traditional software era. But it looks like the opposite is happening, especially when it […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged bestofbreed, insights, silos, social, Social Business, Social Enterprise, social silos, suite

Eucalyptus' AWS Bet

Eucalyptus’ AWS Bet

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 27, 2012

Yesterday Eucalyptus announced the new version of their software and, in the process, more closely aligned with AWS. It is not surprising given the ground realities of cloud infrastructure market. I would even argue that it is a smart bet by Eucalyptus which could help them as enterprises are seriously considering AWS off late. Before […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, eucalyptus, eucalyptus 3.2, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, insights | 4 Responses

CloudFoundry Core May Not Be Important But CloudFoundry Is Important

CloudFoundry Core May Not Be Important But CloudFoundry Is Important

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 26, 2012

Two weeks back I wrote a post arguing that CloudFoundry Core is not important. I had argued that even though CloudFoundry Core is done with an intention to make application portability seamless across various CloudFoundry deployments, the business considerations of PaaS vendors in the ecosystem will ensure that application portability is not a given. The […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Cloudfoundry, cloudfoundry core, insights, open source, opensource, paas, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, vmware | 1 Response

Why CloudFoundry Core Is (Not) Important?

Why CloudFoundry Core Is (Not) Important?

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 16, 2012

On Tuesday, VMware’s CloudFoundry project announced the availability of CloudFoundry Core, a baseline to test if an application is compatible to CloudFoundry’s core open source release. The CloudFoundry Core is based on a set of components that forms the baseline for the definition of core. Right now, they have limited set of programming languages and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged application portability, Cloudfoundry, insights, open source, opensource, paas, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, portability, tier 3, tier3, vmware | 3 Responses

Conference Report: Workday Rising

Conference Report: Workday Rising

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 12, 2012

Last week I attended the analyst event organized along with Workday Rising 2012 conference. Workday Rising is Workday’s (previous CloudAve coverage)(Disclosure: Workday is the sponsor of CloudAve and this is my own personal opinion but they paid for my travel and stay) user conference and it was their attempt to interact closely with their customers […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged #wday, Analytics, big data, bigdata, ensw, Enterprise, enterprise software, insights, Technology, technology summit, workday, workday analytics, workday recruit, Workday Rising, workday rising 2012

Newvem Introduces Native iOS App For AWS Cost Visibility

Newvem Introduces Native iOS App For AWS Cost Visibility

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 5, 2012

Newvem (disclosure: Ofir who works at Newvem is a fellow CloudAve blogger but this is my independent opinion), San Francisco based company offering visibility into an organization’s AWS deployment, Called Cloud Smart Meters, it helps CIOs and IT managers to gain detailed visibility into their AWS costs, risks and assets using their iPads or iPhones. As […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, cost management, insights, iOS, mobile, Newvem

Self Service And Cloud

Self Service And Cloud

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 2, 2012

Recently a journalist contacted me to talk about a company she was covering. Since I never interacted with the vendor, I told her that I can talk about general trends in the market segment rather than anything specific about the vendor. I then checked the vendor’s website which claims to be a cloud services company. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud computing, cloud washing, insights, NIST, NIST definition, self-service | 2 Responses

Build 2012: Microsoft Takes The First Step Towards A Coherent Platform Strategy

Build 2012: Microsoft Takes The First Step Towards A Coherent Platform Strategy

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 1, 2012

This week I had a chance to spend some time at the Build 2012 conference, Microsoft’s developer conference. Though I didn’t get a chance to attend the keynotes or any briefings, I spent time talking to Microsoft employees, developers and partners attending the event. I thought I will share my take on Microsoft’s platform strategy based […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged 2012, azure, build, build 2012, developers, insights, microsoft, office365, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, sharepoint, windows8 | 2 Responses

Google Compute Engine Is Gonna Change The Public Cloud Game

Google Compute Engine Is Gonna Change The Public Cloud Game

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 18, 2012

During the last Google I/O, Google’s user conference, Google announced Google Compute Engine (GCE). GCE was Google’s answer to Amazon EC2 and they opened up their private beta to handful of people. I was not lucky enough to get into the list but I recently got an opportunity to check it out myself. Before I talk […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged gce, google, google compute engine, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, insights, public cloud, service providers | 2 Responses

OpenStack Summit - Fall 2012: My Expectations

OpenStack Summit – Fall 2012: My Expectations

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 15, 2012

As I travel to San Diego to attend the OpenStack Summit (Fall 2012 edition), I am thinking about what to expect from the event. I wrote about the enthusiasm I saw in the community after the April 2012 Summit. Even though I expect to see the same (more) enthusiasm in the community, I also want […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, insights, open source, opensource, openstack, openstack summit, openstack summit 2012

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