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30/08/2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

Timepass: If You Thought The Bidding War Between HP And Dell Over 3Par Was Ugly

By Krishnan Subramanian
If you thought the bidding war between HP and Dell over 3Par is getting ugly, you will be surprised to know how personal it gets among the folks in these organizations . The following picture starring @HPStorageGuy, @3parfarley and @DellServerGeek should convey you the tensions :-).Th
14/08/2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

BBC Thinks HTML5 Is Not Yet Ready For Primetime

By Krishnan Subramanian
There is some hope among the people who want open standards on the web that HTML5 is going to be their savior. In fact, web is built entirely on top of open protocols and technology and HTML 5 is the natural next step to keep web open to all. Particularly, people saw the use of HTML5 for video as a
08/08/2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

Sunday Night Timepass: Are You Curious About How Much Google Knows About Your Social Circle?

By Krishnan Subramanian
When it comes to Google and its ability to know about our life, all of us are worried about the amount of personal information Google knows about us. Realizing this concern, Google has opened up a dashboard inside our Account page to let us know about the data stored in our accounts. Have you ever
30/07/2010 Posted in General 1 Comment

Cloud Vendors Plead For Uniform Regulations In Europe

By Krishnan Subramanian
I have been covering the European cloud computing market a little bit here at Cloud Ave. One of the reasons for the failure of public cloud providers in that market is the strict privacy laws that requires the cloud providers to keep the data within the borders. Even though AWS has support for EU r
25/07/2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

Video: Simon Wardley On Innovation, Change And Commoditization

By Krishnan Subramanian
Simon Wardley, a researcher at the Leading Edge Forum at CSC, gave a phenomenal talk at OSCON 10 this week. Irrespective of whether you are associated with Open Source or Cloud Computing, you may find this talk extremely useful. Anyone interested in understanding the lifecycle of an organization and
18/07/2010 Posted in General 1 Comment

OSCON Week: Open Source and Cloud Computing

By Krishnan Subramanian
OSCON 2010, O'Reilly annual Open Source conference, starts tomorrow at Portland, OR. This is the first time I am attending the conference and thought I will dedicate this week's posts (well, most of them) to topics related to Open Source and Cloud Computing. Since this is such a hot topic, I thought
18/07/2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

Web 3.0 – A Documentary On Semantic Web

By Krishnan Subramanian
Since we saw Google acquire a Semantic Web company on friday, I thought I will share a neat documentary made by Kate Ray, a recently graduated NYU Journalism/Psychology student. It has interviews with some of the thought leaders in the field. The original video can be found here.CloudAve is exclusiv
13/07/2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

Linking Google Apps With Gmail – Initial Observations

By Krishnan Subramanian
For sometime now, we have been hearing about Google's plans to let users link their Google Apps account with Gmail so that it can be used with other Google services that are not part of Google Apps. I know many people, including Cloud Ave's own Zoli Erdos, who wanted such a tie-up. Luckily, Google i
11/07/2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

Weekend Bits: Difference Between Amazon And VMware Explained

By Krishnan Subramanian
If you look out on the web, you can find tons of articles comparing and contrasting the cloud offerings from Amazon Web Services and VMware. But you may not find many tweets that articulate the differences well in 140 characters or less. Today, I came across a set of tweets from George Reese, CTO of
08/07/2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

Open Source Or Proprietary?

By Krishnan Subramanian
I am a strong proponent of open source in cloud computing. In spite of an argument in favor of architecture over licensing, I still feel open source has an important future in the world of cloud computing. However, unlike many in the open source world (well, in the proprietary world too), I don't se

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