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 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now five weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strategy ses...May. 9, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,741 |
 "Many of our Joyent Cloud customers have experienced significant growth based on the superior user experience and performance we deliver on Joyent Cloud," said Steve Tuck, EVP and GM of Joyent Cloud, Joyent's public cloud line of business, as Joyent Cloud Europe was unveiled this week ...Apr. 26, 2012 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,065 |
 The scenario is fairly typical. You launch your SaaS application for $14.99 per month. A few months later, a competitor launches a competing service for $10 per month. How do you respond with a competitive offer without cannibalizing your existing customers? We asked three software exe...Apr. 21, 2012 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,422 |
 Only ten weeks to go! Time for an alphabetical summary of the many leading-edge themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) - being held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Convention Center in New York City and co-located with Big Data Expo 2012 New York ...Apr. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,502 |
 This is the continuation of my series of Articles on Industry SaaS . This term ‘Industry SaaS’ can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process As A Service). However the term ‘Industry SaaS’ meaning a Software As A Service meant for a specific industry need is st...Dec. 15, 2011 09:30 AM EST Reads: 1,876 |
 Building Clouds offers open hardware solutions compatible with their Opendiem Software Energy Management Suite. Customers can choose LonWorks controllers with pre-programmed applications for HVAC, industrial processes, energy management, lighting systems, and more designed to work with...Dec. 13, 2011 07:34 AM EST Reads: 1,049 |
 This is the continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS . This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be used interchangeably with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning Software as a Service meant for a specific industry need is stressed for wide...Nov. 30, 2011 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,774 |
 In my previous article on Need for BpaaS Consortium, I stressed the need for interoperability as a number one concern for the enterprises to adopt SaaS and in particular BpaaS. I pitched for the need for a generic body or a consortium that can act to address the interoperability concer...Nov. 4, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,376 |
 As we started this series on SaaS, BpaaS offerings it is encouraging to see more players in the space. Chemical Inventory Management is chosen as a starting point. We request the enterprises to contact these providers directly and evaluate them as per their processes.
Another impo...Oct. 25, 2011 02:39 PM EDT Reads: 1,378 |
 Independent research firm studies expects the global cloud computing market to reach $241 billion in 2020 compared to $40.7 in 2010. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offers more growth opportunity than any other segment in the still largely vague market for cloud computing services. SaaS ...Oct. 13, 2011 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,040 |
 An alphabetical selection of some of the many themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) - being held November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. The markets may still be melting, but Cloud Expo is definitely coming of age! Sep. 21, 2011 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,767 |
 IaaS has come to the Philippines in a big way from Globe Telecom, along with three new acronyms.
The company, a major Internet service provider and leading mobile provider in the country, breaks down its new IaaS strategy into three offerings: Backup-as-a-Service (Baas), Storage-as-a...Aug. 28, 2011 02:36 AM EDT Reads: 2,076 |
 The “cloud era” of information technology is upon us. Connectivity is pervasive and everyone and everything is connected. Readily available, low-cost, Internet-based services providing access to new capabilities and infinite amounts of information have given rise to a new set of experi...Aug. 22, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,391 |
 Part 1 of the Windows Azure Series, provided an introduction to Windows Azure, and Part 2 provided a look inside the Windows Azure datacenters. Part 3 will continue with a look at the Windows Azure Roles and the Development Environment. The last one is especially important for the next...Apr. 6, 2011 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,119 |
 The public cloud market is dominated by a 800 pound gorilla. We assume its 800 pounds and not 2000 pounds. It could even be 100 pounds or maybe not a gorilla, but an elephant of a paler color. There is no public information indicating its true size, revenue or performance. Let’s assume...Apr. 6, 2011 11:03 AM EDT Reads: 2,989 |
 Enterprises are shifting the delivery of their customer focused services to the web in dramatic fashion. No matter if you call this a result of the cloud, SaaS or one of the dozen acronyms for on-demand services, moving the customer interaction to the web remains the centerpiece. Min...Mar. 14, 2011 04:18 PM EDT Reads: 2,464 |
 Delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors will be traveling from all over the world to New York this coming June 6-9 to attend 8th International Cloud Expo in New York City, co-located at the Jacob Javits Convention Center with 11th Virtualization Conference & Expo.
Here is an ea...Feb. 19, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 14,968 |
 While SaaS On Public Clouds is the most obvious benefit of Cloud, this needs to be high adaptable to differing enterprise needs. This article discusses some of the aspects that will make SaaS more adaptable.
With these in mind, the popularity of SaaS is expected to grow several times...Feb. 10, 2011 04:18 PM EST Reads: 3,282 |
 SAP AG on Monday has announced a major update in its portfolio of on-demand solutions: Feature pack 2.6 for the SAP Business ByDesign solution now offers a slate of new capabilities.
According to Peter Lorenz, executive vice president, On Demand, and corporate officer, SAP AG, "With ...Feb. 9, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 4,293 |
 Historically Software development have taken much of the IT budget, much like Operations. While software development results in business capability this does not mean that any amount can be spent in this tight economy. while most case studies position Cloud for run time cost efficie...Feb. 6, 2011 10:30 AM EST Reads: 4,807 |
 UCC can be enhanced to UVC, Unified Virtual Collaboration, through the addition of new software, and then delivered via Cloud services.
The Canadian government calling out for insights into the gaps in their R&D; innovation strategy is timely and provides a context for the market oppor...Jan. 25, 2011 08:30 AM EST Reads: 5,945 |
 I love this time of year because it is one of those rare occasions during the corporate and product development process where creative ideas and concepts designed to stimulate future success enter the entrepreneurial blood stream. It is that rare moment where you have the benefit of a...Jan. 4, 2011 04:00 AM EST Reads: 3,116 |
 When we read about revolutions historically, they are invariably painted as a momentary epoch during which the world blissfully changes forever and where the victors relish in the glory of positive new direction. Granted, revolutionary ideas are often harmlessly hatched in pubs, coffee...Jan. 3, 2011 11:57 AM EST Reads: 2,748 |
 Today Datapipe put out one of those “the way we see it” releases that I typically ignore because they are usually empty self-promotion devoid of news, data, or insight. You know the ones I am talking about - “Acme Technowidgets Predicts Cloud Adoption Will Continue in 2011”. But, thi...Dec. 15, 2010 08:03 PM EST Reads: 3,464 |
 With the announcement of a cloud database platform from Salesforce which is already a proven player on SaaS and PaaS areas there will be more choices for enterprise customers to move to cloud. In this context some features available in enterprise class databases like Oracle should als...Dec. 14, 2010 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,567 |
 One sure sign that a new technology market is approaching critical mass is when people start fighting over it. I’m not talking about abstract arguments and dialectical debates about meanings and means. I’m talkin’ fisticuffs, mano a mano, the sweet science! And with cloud computing,...Dec. 3, 2010 03:43 PM EST Reads: 5,782 |
 Announced Monday as a free service for existing corporate customers during the pilot phase (November 2010 through February 2011), German giant T-Systems - with 45,300 employees - has unveiled an Infrastructure as a Service offering. Access to this public cloud from €4 billion T-Systems...Nov. 24, 2010 05:15 AM EST Reads: 3,059 |
 This week, managed services provider Datapipe made an important announcement about something they are doing with Amazon Web Services that reminded me of a Zen kōan. That’s a paradox intended to defy logic and to cultivate intuition, like the question, “What is the sound of one hand cl...Nov. 20, 2010 11:09 PM EST Reads: 4,153 |
 Calling it a “nuclear-powered bulldozer”, yesterday, Amazon announced and blogged about its newest cloud infrastructure service, the “Cluster GPU Instance”, which delivers supercomputer calculation power for as little as $2.10 per hour. The new instance type employs the same NVIDIA Te...Nov. 16, 2010 05:34 PM EST Reads: 4,826 |
 As evident Cloud Platform is not for one enterprise or a department rather it is for for large sets of users accessing the applications over the internet and hence the proper design of the database is key to it success. Here are various options analyzed and compared.Nov. 12, 2010 03:38 PM EST Reads: 6,891 |
6fusion has released V3 of its UC6 platform, a sophisticated set of cloud management tools that allow private and public cloud managers and service providers to meter, manage, and monetize the resources, services and applications on multi-tenant private and public cloud infrastructure.... Nov. 2, 2010 06:05 PM EDT Reads: 3,210 |
 In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1-4, 2010) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem.Oct. 28, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 59,644 Replies: 5 |
 The Oracle founder isn't afraid to say and do what he wants. Sometimes it takes a guy like him to say what needs to be said.
Ellison famously lambasted Salesforce.com - which offers customer relationship management software and enterprise cloud computing - in a video a year ago. He ...Oct. 25, 2010 11:02 AM EDT Reads: 2,968 |
 Cloud computing has just crested the peak of inflated expectations and has begun its descent into the proverbial trough of disillusionment. There’s no telling how long the downward slide will take, but Gartner, which first memorialized the now famous hype cycle, figures cloud computing...Oct. 12, 2010 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,561 |
 In his keynote address at the NetEvents Press Summit in Istanbul, Brocade CMO John McHugh pulled a major "Debbie Downer," decrying the immediacy of cloud computing and calling it "overhyped". He further predicted that true utility computing is "probably 10 or more years away" and coun...Sep. 30, 2010 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,075 |
 Orange Business Services, the France Telecom Orange global systems integration unit has teamed up VCE Coalition stakeholders Cisco, EMC and VMware to offer IaaS and SaaS cloud services to enterprise customers in as many as 132 countries. The four companies joined cyber-hands today for...Sep. 28, 2010 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,836 |
 The lack of rich interoperability between cloud infrastructures based on Java and .Net is a growing problem that Gartner Group and others believe will threaten the very viability of utility computing. JNBridge, a veteran provider of tools and technologies for bridging the gap between ...Sep. 20, 2010 05:40 PM EDT Reads: 3,555 |
 A wide-ranging interview by the Dallas Morning News with AT&T; CEO Randall Stephenson shows whether or not AT&T; is about to become a cloud computing leader and provides a peek at life after Apple.Sep. 19, 2010 11:09 PM EDT Reads: 5,355 |
 Joyent, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) house, has gotten $15 million in Series C money to expand international operations and build momentum for its PaaS widgetry. Intel, already a Series B investor, led the round with existing investor Greycroft P...Sep. 16, 2010 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,898 |
 In 2005, our company, ServusXchange LLC, was a fledgling SaaS information technology startup focused on business process and workflow collaboration solutions. Led by our co-founder, Brian Javeline, we identified an emerging opportunity, an unanswered need in the home remodeling and rep...Sep. 10, 2010 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,136 |
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