Category Archives: Analysis

30/08/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Updated: Openstack.org – A Rackspace Hailmary Pass?

By Krishnan Subramanian
Last week, Clouderati Twitter stream was full of back and forth arguments on possible dumping of Amazon API by Openstack. It all started with a recent Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group meetup on Openstack. One of the takeaways from the meeting is that Openstack is dumping the API compatibility mo
23/08/2010 Posted in Analysis 1 Comment

Cloud.com Offers Support For VMware

By Krishnan Subramanian
Cloud.com, formerly VMOps and the company offering a seamless way to deploy and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure for both enterprises and service providers, has announced support for VMware vSphere 4.1 and vCenter server today. During VMworld, they will be demoing their Cloud Stack platform on top
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23/08/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Nimbula Raises 15 Million Series B Round To Shore Up Private Cloud Offering

By Krishnan Subramanian
Nimbula, the company founded by two engineers who were part of the original Amazon EC2 team, today announced that they have raised 15 Million in Series B round of financing. This round was mainly lead by Accel partners. Nimbula was launched in last Structure conference and offers private cloud with
19/08/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Why Microsoft Should Focus On PaaS

By Krishnan Subramanian
After a hiatus, I am going to touch the "PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services" series again. When I wrote the post on Rightscale's support for Windows, I linked to the Rightscale blog post where they had highlighted the difficulties with Windows instances. Picking up on the Rightscale post, William
17/08/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Rightscale Now Supports Windows Servers Bringing Parity With Linux

By Krishnan Subramanian
Rightscale, the leading cloud management vendor, today announced support for Windows based applications on the cloud. This puts the support for Windows applications on par with Linux based ones, making cloud automation, management and portability for Windows instances as easy as Linux instances
17/08/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Ubuntu Is Ready For A Multi-Touch Future

By Krishnan Subramanian
As more and more touch based devices flood the market, open source community is looking for support to such devices in the Linux distros. Ubuntu is almost ready to take on the proliferation of such devices in their upcoming Ubuntu 10.10.10 (Maverick Meercat Release) in October of this year. In a mai
12/08/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Some Observations On Google’s Mobile Strategy

By Krishnan Subramanian
Today, Techmeme is full of news coming from Google's Mobile press event. The two interesting announcement from Google areA way to instantly send links, maps, etc. to Android phones from desktops. It is a clever interplay between three Google properties, Google's Chrome browser, Google's Android phon
11/08/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

VMware Has Plans For Zimbra

By Krishnan Subramanian
Ever since VMware acquired Zimbra from Yahoo in January of 2010, there were speculations about VMware plans up the stack. VMware hasn't talked about their strategy at the application layer of the cloud stack yet but they are taking steps to integrate Zimbra with their platform and push it agg
10/08/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Rackspace Offers Windows Cloud Servers

By Krishnan Subramanian
Today, Rackspace announced the release of Windows based Cloud Servers to compete with Amazon EC2 Windows instances and Windows Azure. According to Rackspace, the new service delivers a highly scalable environment ideal for Windows-based hosting, testing and developing applications and supporting th
06/08/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Did We Get The Cloud Infrastructure Business Wrong?

By Krishnan Subramanian
The conventional wisdom among the pundits covering Infrastructure services is that cloud infrastructure business is a high volume low margin business. Some pundits even dismissed Amazon Web Services because they are not going up the stack to differentiate themselves unlike, say, Salesforce.com.Amaz

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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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