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Twitter, DataSift, platforms

Twitter, DataSift, platforms

By Paul Miller on April 13, 2015

Twitter, DataSift, platforms: Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancelled it’s [sic] contract to allow DataSift to resell Twitter data to 3rd parties. I read the declarations by industry analysts on Twitter that this was “proof that you can’t build a business on somebody else’s platform” and perhaps DataSift should have known better. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged data, Data analysis, DataSift, gnip, mark suster, platform, tftd, twitter, twitter firehose, Upfront Ventures

Disruptive Enterprise Platform Sales: Why Buy Anything, Buy Mine, Buy Now - Part III

Disruptive Enterprise Platform Sales: Why Buy Anything, Buy Mine, Buy Now – Part III

By Chirag Mehta on October 24, 2014

This is the third and the last post in the three-post series on challenges associated with sales of disruptive platforms such as Big Data and how you can effectively work with your prospects and others to mitigate them. If you missed the previous posts the first post was about “why buy anything” and the second […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, cloud, enterprise software, platform, sales

Dreamforce '14 Developer Keynote: The Big Reasons to Reserve Your Seat Now

Dreamforce ’14 Developer Keynote: The Big Reasons to Reserve Your Seat Now

By Quinton Wall on September 24, 2014

On the fence about whether the DF ’14 developer keynote is for you? The developer keynote is for anyone who wants to create new apps, or extend and customize their existing salesforce implementation. Reserve your seat now before they sell out!

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged #df14, developer, dreamforce, Featured, platform, salesforce

Disruptive Enterprise Platform Sales: Why Buy Anything, Buy Mine, Buy Now - Part II

Disruptive Enterprise Platform Sales: Why Buy Anything, Buy Mine, Buy Now – Part II

By Chirag Mehta on September 24, 2014

This is the second post in the three-post series on challenges associated with sales of disruptive platforms such as Big Data and how you can effectively work with your prospects and others to mitigate them. If you missed the first post in the series it was about “why buy anything.” This post is about “why […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, enterprise software, platform, sales

Disruptive Enterprise Platform Sales: Why Buy Anything, Buy Mine, Buy Now - Part I

Disruptive Enterprise Platform Sales: Why Buy Anything, Buy Mine, Buy Now – Part I

By Chirag Mehta on September 2, 2014

I think of enterprise software into two broad categories – products or solutions and platform. The simplest definition of platform is you use that to make a solution that you need. While largely I have been a product person I have had significant exposure to enterprise platform sales process. I have worked with many sales […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, cloud computing, Enterprise, enterprise software, mark suster, platform, sales | 1 Response

FREE E-BOOK: 10 Essential Elements of Great Enterprise Mobile Apps

FREE E-BOOK: 10 Essential Elements of Great Enterprise Mobile Apps

By Quinton Wall on April 17, 2014

Mobile devices, whether you’re talking about smart phones, tablets, or other form factors, present unique development and design challenges. The kind of information, the actions you can take, the way the interface looks and works, needs to be fundamentally different in a mobile environment. Which is why, at salesforce.com, we’ve identified what we believe are […]

Posted in Mobile | Tagged Featured, IT, platform

APIs Are Bridging the Mobile App Gap

APIs Are Bridging the Mobile App Gap

By Quinton Wall on April 15, 2014

Almost overnight, it seems, our lives came to revolve around social networks: We scan our Facebook feeds for updates from our families and relevant news, use Twitter to follow friends and celebrities, and pin the latest fashions or home-improvement ideas via Pinterest. Behind it all is the desire to drive engagement, to stay connected with […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged api, facebook, FitBit, Geoffrey Moore, IT, oauth, platform, salesforce.com, twitter | 1 Response

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

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

CloudBees Adds HA To Jenkins Enterprise Edition

CloudBees Adds HA To Jenkins Enterprise Edition

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 21, 2012

CloudBees (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS company behind the Open Source Jenkins project, today announced that they are offering a high availability plugin to their Jenkins Enterprise product. They made this announcement at the Jenkins User Conference at New York City. This plugin will help in better uptime and improved governance/oversight along with increased productivity. […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged briefs, Cloudbees, Enterprise, HA, High Availability, jenkins, paas, platform, platform as a service, Platforms | 1 Response

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

Red Hat Releases The Source Code For Openshift

Red Hat Releases The Source Code For Openshift

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 30, 2012

Red Hat today announced that they are releasing the source code of their Openshift PaaS platform. Red Hat announced that Openshift is open source at the time of release but they didn’t release the source code till now. There are two reasons for this delay: Since Openshift came through Makara acquisition, it is important for […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged briefs, opens source, openshift, opensource, paas, platform, platform as a service, Platforms, redhat | 1 Response

CloudFoundry On OpenStack: PistonCloud Makes It A Reality

CloudFoundry On OpenStack: PistonCloud Makes It A Reality

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 30, 2012

Remember BOSH? The open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and life cycle management of very large scale instances of Cloud Foundry, announced a few weeks back? They initially released it with support for VMware infrastructure and Amazon EC2. Since it was open source, there were expectations that others will build the necessary interface for […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged briefs, Cloudfoundry, iaas, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, open source, opensource, openstack, paas, pistoncomputing, platform, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, vmware | 4 Responses

dotCloud Ramps Up Their Offering

dotCloud Ramps Up Their Offering

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 28, 2012

dotCloud, San Francisco based platform services company letting you build your own platform stack across three data centers, yesterday announced that they are ramping up their platform stack support with support for web sockets, MongoDB 2.0 and vertical scaling. After being relatively quiet for sometime (at least, I didn’t hear much about them), they are […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged briefs, dotcloud, mongodb, paasfuture, platform, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, websockets | 1 Response

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