Monthly Archives: January 2010

30/01/2010 Posted in Design, General Leave a comment

iPad And SaaS Junkies

By Krishnan Subramanian
Image via Wikipedia When Apple announced the release of iPad earlier this week, all hell broke lose in the tech blogosphere including here at Cloud Ave. On a personal level, I am put off by the lack of camera and Apple’s arrogance to wield control on people’s buying habits. However, the i
29/01/2010 Posted in Just for fun Leave a comment

T-Shirt Friday #28 – sliderocket

By Ben Kepes
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt o
29/01/2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

Cloud Computing And Wall Street

By Krishnan Subramanian
Cloud Computing is slowly creeping into many different industries. It fits very well to the needs of Main Street. Will it fit well for Wall Street too? Here is a video in which Senior Analyst Kevin McPartland at The TABB Group talks about the scenario. (Video link from Datacenter Knowledge)CloudAve
29/01/2010 Posted in Strategy Leave a comment

RIP: Sun Cloud

By Krishnan Subramanian
In March of last year, then independent Sun Microsystems announced their plans for cloud computing. There were some people who dismissed it outright and many more who were skeptical of Sun’s plans. I was in a minority and was pretty excited about the announcement because of its potential to keep t
28/01/2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Perspective Please People. They’re Only Dogs

By Ben Kepes

This one will annoy the bleeding hearts out there no end. So today New Zealand was aghast at the carnage wrought in a small rural town. Earthquake? No, Tsunami? No, Hurricane? No. In fact it was.. drum roll, an animal killing. It seems some eccentric fellow had 30 or so

28/01/2010 Posted in Product reviews Leave a comment

Yuuguu Takes on the Corporate Market

By Ben Kepes
Last week Yuuguu (previous coverage here) lifted the wraps on its corporate edition, a tool that brings together web conferencing, a business-class instant messenger and presence via a single, customizable and secure collaboration platform. Yuuguu is tailoring their offering to corpora
28/01/2010 Posted in Analysis, security Leave a comment

Thinking About Security Is Old School? – A Dangerous Trend

By Krishnan Subramanian
Recently, I was listening to a podcast in which analysts were debating about public and private clouds. During the course of the discussions, one of the participants, a SaaS vendor, made a comment that disturbed me a bit. I think it is important that I address this issue here at Cloud Ave. It is my
27/01/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

New Whitepaper – 10 Questions You Need To Ask A Collaboration Vendor

By Ben Kepes
Recently Krish and I were talking about writing a series of whitepapers as a guide for organizations looking to adopt technology – there’s many highly technical documents on offer but something worded more as a “10 easy steps” type series was what we envisaged for this particular offering. T
27/01/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

Xero Gets Direct Bank Feeds in the US (and elsewhere)

By Ben Kepes
US customers have been waiting for automated bank feeds from Xero for awhile now. In New Zealand, Australia and the UK Xero build relationships directly with the banks and many were waiting to see what strategy they would adopt in the US market. This morning Xero announced that they have entered in
26/01/2010 Posted in enterprise Leave a comment

Cisco Offers Solutions For IaaS Providers

By Krishnan Subramanian
Image via CrunchBase I have been emphasizing again and again that there won’t be a consolidation around few cloud infrastructure players. Then, the idea of private clouds is also not going away anytime in the near future (even though I see public clouds as the future for many workloads). Fin

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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