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August 4, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

VMware Integrates Its Recent Acquisitions As It Gets Ready For A Cloudy World

By Krishnan Subramanian
Some may think Project Redwood is dead but VMware is busy integrating its recent acquisitions while laying the groundwork for the cloudy future. While the VMware acquisitions like Springsource, Hyperic, RabbitMQ, Redis, GemStone, kept the pundit guessing for a while, we are slowly seeing some actio
August 3, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

UBS Analysts Try To Unravel Amazon Mystery

By Krishnan Subramanian
Even though cloud computing is few years old now and Amazon Web Services is considered as the poster child of public clouds, pundits and others were deeply mystified about the size of Amazon's cloud computing efforts. There were conflicting opinions about the size of Amazon cloud, almost turning int
August 3, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Skytap Adds Enterprise Features During Their Evolution Towards Cloud Automation

By Krishnan Subramanian
Skytap, the Seattle based company which was originally focussed on Lab automation, has announced some features more suitable for enterprise customers. Enterprises today are much more open to cloud adoption than, say, one year back. Slowly, companies focussing on infrastructure are adding more and m
August 2, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Rapportive Shows Social CRM Space Is Heating Up

By Krishnan Subramanian
Increasingly, we are seeing trends that point out to Social CRM becoming the next hot thing in the application world. Unlike the traditional CRM apps, social CRM mines the data in your social network to offer more relevant information regarding your contact or potential customer. Even though the tra
July 29, 2010 Posted in Analysis 1 Comment

Google Apps Shapes Up Nicely In Spite Of Noise Around City Of LA Bungling

By Krishnan Subramanian
The noise surrounding Google App's City of LA deployment doesn't appear to be dying down anytime soon. Yesterday, another article highlighting Google's failure came up on the basis of a leaked email from the City of Los Angeles. The April 13 letter, addressed to L.A.'s information technol
July 28, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Simon Wardley’s Prophecy: Is Openstack The Small Guy Going To Disrupt Amazon’s Dominance?

By Krishnan Subramanian
When I wrote about Openstack last week, I talked about the disruptive potential of an Openstack.org and how it can make the market by empowering the smaller players.Many people who dismiss Openstack.org as a non-starter fail to understand that it is just a start. Openstack.org doesn't claim it has t
July 27, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Bitrock Makes Cloud App Deployments Easier With BitNami Studio

By Krishnan Subramanian
Bitrock, the company that provides tools and services to package, deploy and update software, has announced the release of Bitnami Studio, a self service GUI based platform to package and deploy applications to the clouds. It offers choice from the underlying operating systems to middleware/runtime
July 26, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Gartner Says SaaS Is Growing Big In Enterprise Application Software Markets

By Krishnan Subramanian
SaaS is slowly gaining adoption not just in the small and mid market range but also in big enterprises. According to a new Gartner report "Software as a Service 2009-2014", the SaaS revenues within the enterprise software market will grow in 2010 by 14.1 percent from the 2009 revenues. In 2009, the
July 23, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Openstack Joins Cloud Audit

By Krishnan Subramanian
When Openstack project was announced on Monday, there were two reasons for my excitement. The foremost being its open source licensing with a potential to disrupt the industry. The second one was the tweets by Chris Hoff (@beaker) whose initial reaction was positive and his thinking that Openstack
July 22, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Research Shows Increased Cloud Adoption But Concerns Remain

By Krishnan Subramanian
Mimecast, a provider of cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, released the results of a survey sponsored by them. As it is always with any vendor sponsored research, one should take it with a grain of salt. However, it does offer some insight into cloud adoption in US

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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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