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Dreamforce 2012: Betting On Social Enterprise
Picture Credit: Regmedia.co.uk Dreamforce 2012 was held last week at San Francisco with large number of attendees from all over the world. If the conference numbers are any indication of market...
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Tucon 2012: Initial Thoughts
I am on my way back from Tucon 2012, Tibco’s annual user conference at Las Vegas. During the event I had a chance to talk with Tibco execs, partners, customers and fellow analysts. I thought I will do...
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Open Source Dynamics: Shall We Put An End To The Meaningless Arguments?
Picture Credit: University of Queensland For sometime now, we are seeing some arguments in the industry about open source which I think is a waste of meaningful dialog space. I thought I will put out a...
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Pre BoxWorks Thoughts: Box To Play Best Of Breed Game?
I am on the plane to attend BoxWorks 2012, the annual user conference of Box. Before hearing anything from Box, I am trying to make sense of Box’s strategy based on what I heard in the past 3 weeks...
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Cloud Architecture And Best Of Breed
Gloucestershire Old Spot – Best of Breed (Photo credit: Dave Hamster) As cloud computing becomes all the more pervasive, people are rethinking the idea of buying software and hardware suites in favor...
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OpenStack Summit – Fall 2012: My Expectations
OpenStack (Photo credit: Wikipedia) 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...
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Google Compute Engine Is Gonna Change The Public Cloud Game
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...
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Build 2012: Microsoft Takes The First Step Towards A Coherent Platform Strategy
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...
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Self Service And Cloud
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...
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Newvem Introduces Native iOS App For AWS Cost Visibility
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,...
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Conference Report: Workday Rising
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...
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Why CloudFoundry Core Is (Not) Important?
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...
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CloudFoundry Core May Not Be Important But CloudFoundry Is Important
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...
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Eucalyptus’ AWS Bet
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...
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Social Silos: Is Suite The Answer?
Picture Credit: Workasone.wordpress.com 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...
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Three Cloud Visionaries in 2012
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....
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IBM SmartCloud Docs Enters The Market But Does It Still Matter?
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...
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Open Source Metrics: Let Us Get Realistic
Logo Open Source Initiative (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Recently a blogger wrote an article comparing the mailing list interaction in the communities around major open source infrastructure projects. It...
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PaaS Pivot: Big Data At The Core Of Platform Services
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...
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New Meme: Business Users Are The IT
Picture Credit: rwconnect.esomar.org 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...
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