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Two Years Of OpenStack: Looking From The Other Side

Two Years Of OpenStack: Looking From The Other Side

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 25, 2012

Yesterday I wrote a post about OpenStack and talked about the concerns among the developers that there is too much emphasis given to marketing than engineering. Yesterday, we publicly came to know about how OpenStack developers from the original Anso Labs team are quitting Rackspace to Nebula, it raises some troubling questions. OpenStackers dismiss this […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged fud, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, insights, marketing, openstack, rackspace | 2 Responses

Two Years Of OpenStack: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Two Years Of OpenStack: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 24, 2012

Last week at OSCON (CloudAve Coverage), OpenStack project (previous CloudAve coverage) celebrated its second birthday with much fanfare. Even though I missed the OpenStack day at the conference, I did get a chance to talk to OpenStack team, developers, practitioners, well wishers, etc. during the event. I think it is time to do a reality […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, insights, open source, open stack, openstack, oscon, oscon 2012 | 5 Responses

Hardware, Cloud And Cloud Washing

Hardware, Cloud And Cloud Washing

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 20, 2012

Yesterday, under the shadows of OSCON 2012, Portland based cloud cost management company Cloudability ran a future of cloud fireside chat in which myself and fellow CloudAve blogger and Analyst Ben Kepes participated. The chat was moderated by TechCrunch blogger Alex Williams. We discussed various topics and where the industry is heading. During our discussion, we […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged abstraction, cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, cloud washing, cloudability, hardware, IBM, ibm puresystems, insights, oscon | 5 Responses

Microsoft's "Modern" Office: Quick Thoughts

Microsoft’s “Modern” Office: Quick Thoughts

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 16, 2012

Microsoft (previous CloudAve coverage) today unveiled the new Office software with emphasis on Windows 8, Cloud and Social. They have built the new version of Office to take advantage of Windows 8 UI to offer touch and ink based gestures. The other interesting part was the Yammer integration with Sharepoint and Microsoft Dynamics. “We are […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged insights, microsoft, microsoft office accounting, modern office, office, surface, tablets | 5 Responses

Microsoft, Apprenda And Service Providers - An Analysis

Microsoft, Apprenda And Service Providers – An Analysis

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 11, 2012

Microsoft (previous CloudAve coverage) and Apprenda (previous CloudAve coverage) yesterday made some announcements focussing on service providers at #wpc12 and it generated lots of buzz in the tech community. Even though there were lot of talk about the VMware angle in the story and about Microsoft planning to push Azure as the cloud OS of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged apprenda, azure, federated cloud ecosystems, federated clouds, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure services, insights, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, platform, platform services, service providers

Why Google Compute Engine Is The Right Move

Why Google Compute Engine Is The Right Move

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 9, 2012

Two weeks back at Google I/O, Google announced the release of their infrastructure services offering called Google Compute Engine. This is a pretty interesting move from Google who is late in the infrastructure game compared to Amazon Web Services or, even, Microsoft Azure. The last two weeks were filled with posts from pundits and I […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged google, google compute engine, google i/o, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, insights | 4 Responses

Microsoft, Apple And The Competition In The Post PC Era

Microsoft, Apple And The Competition In The Post PC Era

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 4, 2012

After Microsoft announced their beautiful Surface tablet and positioned it as a tablet that bridges the gap with the PC, there was some discussions on whether we are heading into the post-PC world dominated by tablets or we are going to see a new form of device that is neither tablet nor PC. Some even […]

Posted in Featured Posts, General | Tagged apple update, bill gates, charlie rose, insights, ipad, microsoft, microsoft surface, mobile, post-pc, surface, tablets

Social Media Hysteria

Social Media Hysteria

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 30, 2012

Yesterday, after the Amazon outage, I tweeted a comment highlighting the difficulties faced by AWS customers (applicable, in general, to all public cloud customers) when there is an outage. It was a tweet meant to highlight how desperate the situation becomes for AWS customers as well as AWS employees. I compared the situation after such […]

Posted in General | Tagged attention, attention economy, hysteria, insights, Mass media, nick carr, SocialMedia, twitter | 10 Responses

Who Will Disrupt AWS?

Who Will Disrupt AWS?

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 18, 2012

Last week Amazon Web Services (previous CloudAve coverage) announced that they are lowering their support costs and also introducing a free plan. The AWS Support program just got even better! We have added features, lowered prices, and created a new free support plan that includes immediate access to customer service and technical support for AWS […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Trends & Concepts | Tagged amazon, aws, competition, disruption, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, insights, paas, platform services, Platforms | 5 Responses

Microsoft Does It Right And Oracle Claims They Are Right

Microsoft Does It Right And Oracle Claims They Are Right

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 8, 2012

This week saw cloud related announcements from two software behemoths from the traditional era, Microsoft and Oracle. Microsoft rebooted Windows Azure making it more palatable to modern day developers and started playing nice on the interoperability game. Oracle re-announced their public cloud strategy and, in the process, tried to convince users that they should see […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud cimputing, database as a service, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, insights, java as a service, microsoft, Oracle, oracle fusion, paas, platform, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms | 6 Responses

AppFog, Apprenda And Azure: The Future Of PaaS Is Getting Defined

AppFog, Apprenda And Azure: The Future Of PaaS Is Getting Defined

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 6, 2012

Three news from three different vendors came out today but they are interconnected with one another. More interestingly, this has the potential to redefine PaaS landscape empowering the end users by helping them avoid infrastructure lock-in. AppFog and Apprenda have announced interoperability with Windows Azure which itself is undergoing a revamp (you can learn more […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged appfog, apprenda, azure, insights, lock-in, lockin, paas, paasfuture, platform, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, windowsazure | 4 Responses

HP's AWS Strategy

HP’s AWS Strategy

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 11, 2012

HP yesterday announced that they are releasing their public cloud in public beta. During the media blitz preceding the announcement, Zorowar Biri Singh SVP and GM for HP Cloud Services (disclosure: a friend of mine from before he joined HP) told Business Insider about how they plan to compete with AWS. He told them that […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Strategy | Tagged amazon, aws, hp, hpcloud, iaas, infrastructr, infrastructure, Infrastructure services, insights | 7 Responses

Pervasive Software Wants To Put Utility In The Cloud Applications

Pervasive Software Wants To Put Utility In The Cloud Applications

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 10, 2012

Pervasive Software (previous CloudAve coverage), Austin based Data Integration company, had their user conference Pervasive IntegrationWorld 2012 last week to talk about their customer stories, roadmap, etc.. During my visit to the conference, I had an opportunity to see one of the prototypes they were showing off and got me excited. It is about a […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged data metering, insights, metering, pay per use, pervasive, pervasive software, saas, utilities, utility, utility computing

IBM PureApplication Systems: It Is Not PaaS. Period. But

IBM PureApplication Systems: It Is Not PaaS. Period. But

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 3, 2012

IBM Impact has been going on at Las Vegas and the buzz around the event is IBM PureSystems. I see a lot of excitement around PureSystems both from IBM side and their customer side. However, I also see some confusion around the messaging. IBM has been sending ambiguous signals around IBM PureApplication Systems which is […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged 2012, IBM, ibm impact, ibm pureapplication systems, ibm puresystems, ibmimpact, insights, notPaas, paas, platform, platform as a service, platform cloud, platform services, Platforms | 5 Responses

Does Your Organization Face Data Obesity Problem?

Does Your Organization Face Data Obesity Problem?

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 27, 2012

Recently, I wrote a report for GigaOm Pro (behind Paywall) commemorating their Structure:Big Data conference and introduced a term which is going to hurt many organizations in a big way in the near future. I thought I will write about it here and get the thoughts of practitioners and vendors on the problem. In the world […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, bigdata, Business Intelligence, data governance, data mining, data obesity, Data Warehousing, Enterprise, governance, insights, obesity | 1 Response

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