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Dear Vendors, Don't Confuse People #Enufsaid

Dear Vendors, Don’t Confuse People #Enufsaid

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 22, 2012

This is the screenshot of a slide from a vendor’s slide deck. I think the picture and the post title speaks for itself. E N O U G H

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged confusion, fud, public clouds

OpenStack Vibes Around CloudConnect

OpenStack Vibes Around CloudConnect

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 16, 2012

CloudConnect 2012 at Santa Clara, the conference organized by UBM, has come to an end. This week, there were quite a few OpenStack (previous CloudAve coverage) related news and I thought I will do a single blog post talking about them. Some of them came during the event and some outside of it. This post […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged carrier clouds, cloudscaling, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure services, insights, open cloud, open cloud initiative, open clouds, openstack, private clouds, public clouds, rackspace, redapt | 2 Responses

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

Cloud.com Scores A Big Win With GoDaddy

Cloud.com Scores A Big Win With GoDaddy

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 17, 2011

GoDaddy, the domain registrar, yesterday unveiled their cloud plans with a goal to eat into the public cloud pie. They are calling their service Data Center On Demand and it is currently in limited release phase. It is generally expected to be available in July. Unlike Amazon Web Services, GoDaddy’s plans requires customers to have […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged 3tera, cloud.com, cloupia, enomaly, eucalyptus, godaddy, hexagrid, insights, openstack, private clouds, public clouds | 4 Responses

Fujitsu Opens Up Their Public Cloud Services To North America

Fujitsu Opens Up Their Public Cloud Services To North America

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 24, 2011

Fujitsu, the leading Asian giant, today opened up their global cloud platform to North American users after Japan, Australia, Singapore and UK. They are starting up with a free beta trial now which will convert into paid offering after 31st August, 2011. With their large customer base and enterprise credibility, they are focussing on enterprises […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged aws, briefs, fujitsu, public clouds | 1 Response

Appirio CloudSpokes - For The Cloud, On The Cloud, By The Cloud (Provider)

Appirio CloudSpokes – For The Cloud, On The Cloud, By The Cloud (Provider)

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 1, 2011

Two weeks back, the cloud based systems integrator Appirio announced a new developer community called CloudSpokes. This is an attempt by Appirio to crowdsource cloud development work on public cloud platforms. They already have a good group of developers inside USA and have an offshore partner in India. They are trying to build a community […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged appirio, CloudSpokes, community, Crowdsource, crowdsourcing, developer community, developers, insights, mobile, public clouds

Image credit: MaximumPC

Will Amazon’s Video Streaming Service Hurt Netflix?

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 23, 2011

Amazon recently announced a video streaming service available for free to their Amazon Prime subscribers. From what we have heard in the media, Amazon will end up offering a competitive service to Netflix. We all know that Netflix has recently moved most of their infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. In this post, I will briefly […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, aws, briefs, Netflix, public clouds, risks, video | 1 Response

Skytap Talks Hybrid To Go Deep Into The Enterprise Market

Skytap Talks Hybrid To Go Deep Into The Enterprise Market

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 14, 2011

Skytap (see previous CloudAve coverage), Seattle based company focussed on cloud automation, today announced a move towards Hybrid clouds, clearly aiming to take advantage of the enterprise interest in hybrid clouds. They announced a set of security and usability features which will allow enterprise customers to create and deploy hybrid clouds very fast. As more […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, Enterprise, hybrid clouds, private clouds, public clouds, skytap

HP Joins The Hybrid Cloud Race

HP Joins The Hybrid Cloud Race

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 25, 2011

HP, who was a reluctant player in the cloud game for a long time, today announced some products and services aimed at enterprises who are looking forward to move to hybrid clouds this year. They are trying to position themselves as a cloud provider who can keep enterprises secure. Leaving aside all the marketing talk […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, hp, hybrid clouds, iaas, private clouds, public clouds

Internap Adds Visibility To OpenStack

Internap Adds Visibility To OpenStack

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 18, 2011

Internap, Atlanta based high performance IT infrastructure provider, today announced the launch of their public cloud storage called Internap XIPCloud Storage. It is right now in beta and it is expected to be publicly available shortly. With this announcement, Internap expands the IT services portfolio they offer to organizations of all sizes, small businesses to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, cloud files, cloud storage, internap, internap XIPCloud Storage, Object storage, openstack, public clouds, storage

Saugatuck Study Predicts Every Business Category On The Cloud By 2015

Saugatuck Study Predicts Every Business Category On The Cloud By 2015

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 18, 2011

Saugatuck Technology, Connecticut based Research and Consulting firm, released a new report today titled Key SaaS, PaaS and IaaS Trends Through 2015 – Business Transformation via the Cloud based on the analysis of global surveys, interviews, etc.. The interesting prediction of this report is that all categories of business computing will move to cloud by […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged briefs, predictions, public clouds, research, saugatuck technology, survey | 1 Response

Acquisitions, Trust And Cloud Services

Acquisitions, Trust And Cloud Services

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 10, 2011

Last week, Salesforce.com acquired the web conferencing provider DimDim for $31 Million. Immediately after the news was out, DimDim sent a mail telling their users that free and month by month subscription plans will end by 15th March, 2011. Those with annual subscription will be allowed to continue till the end of their subscription period […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged acquisition, cloud computing, dimdim, iaas, insights, m&a, paas, public clouds, risks, saas, salesforce, salesforce.com | 3 Responses

Skype Downtime And The Cloud Fail

Skype Downtime And The Cloud Fail

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 22, 2010

Skype went down this morning and, as expected, Techmeme and Twitter are already going crazy with the news about downtime. There were speculations about problems with their centralized infrastructure used to authenticate users (which was a cause of trouble in one of the past outages) and some were even talking about “The Cloud Fail”. Whether […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged distributed systems, fud, private clouds, public clouds, skype, traditional IT | 6 Responses

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

The Rise Of Managed Cloud Services

The Rise Of Managed Cloud Services

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 14, 2010

Looks like it is time to take “self service” out of cloud definition. There is a new trend that is slowly gaining traction which, even though it is not cloud washing, appears to be a desperate repackaging of services by companies with deep roots in the managed hosting world. I still feel that the availability […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, cloud management, datapipe, Managed cloud services, managed services, OpSource, public clouds, rackspace, Rackspace Cloud | 5 Responses

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