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August 31, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Zetta Wants You To Forget Using Traditional Backup Solutions

By Krishnan Subramanian
Zetta, the two year old company offering storage as a service targeted towards enterprises, yesterday announced the availability of Zetta Data Protection Solution and they are demoing their offering at the VMworld booth at San Francisco this week. In this era of big data, even enterprises have tons
August 26, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Openstack iPad App Is Coming To A Store Near You

By Krishnan Subramanian
After Openstack was launched with much fanfare during OSCON, there has been a flurry of activity on the development community with thousands of contribution from hundreds of developers. Even though the main contribution is towards compute and storage, there are many smaller projects underway in th
August 26, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Perform The Hybrid Cloud Dance Easily With newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus

By Krishnan Subramanian
Cloud Computing is both inspiring and confusing to many people. When you realize the efficiency and cost savings offered by the cloud, you get inspired but when you listen to the marketing folks, you get confused. The reason is pretty straightforward. The marketing folks on the public cloud side wan
August 25, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Novell Announces The General Availability Of Its Cloud Security Service

By Krishnan Subramanian
Novell has been talking about cloud and cloud security for more than a year now and, slowly, we are getting a glimpse of where they are going. After realizing that Cloud has taken off in a big way, Novell has been trying to position themselves as a serious cloud player with a stronger emphasis
August 16, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Microsoft Releases VMMSSP

By Krishnan Subramanian
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the release of VMMSSP, which in short form is called as Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Self-Service Portal 2. VMMSSP is the partner-extensible solution built on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, and System Center VMM. This announceme
August 12, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Box.Net Adds Offline Support But How Many Really Use It?

By Krishnan Subramanian
Box.Net, the cloud storage provider turned cloud content management platform for businesses, yesterday announced a new feature for their mobile apps which will let users store documents offline. In a blog post today, Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net, wrote about the new feature.Today’s workplace has e
July 23, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Amazon Takes Necessary Steps Towards Luring The Enterprises

By Krishnan Subramanian
Amazon Web Services is on a roll lately. They have been announcing variety of features, both big and small, and they even announced their datacenters in Asia-Pacific. Being a runaway leader in marketshare and poster boy for cloud computing, AWS has been receiving lot of positive press and some flak.
July 22, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

OSCON Week: Microsoft And Interoperability

By Krishnan Subramanian
Using Microsoft and Interoperability in the same sentence makes me chuckle every time. Well, partly it could be due to my open source bias and I am not denying that. Off late, Microsoft has been making half-hearted attempts to embrace open source. I use the term "half-hearted" here because they do s
July 8, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Company Profile: Cloupia Jumps Into Crowded Private Cloud Space With Rich Features

By Krishnan Subramanian
Cloupia, a startup based in Santa Clara with a development center at Hyderabad, India, is another entrant in the crowded private cloud space. Founded by veterans from Cisco and other companies, they are trying to differentiate themselves with a rich set of features. The Cloupia Unified Service
June 29, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized 7 Comments

Cisco Just Kicked iPad Out of Enterprise Market With Cisco Cius

By Krishnan Subramanian
Cisco Live is going on at Las vegas and I just watched the keynote by John Chambers, their CEO. The turn around by Cisco is impressive and they are really onto something with their video strategy. Today Cisco announced their new tablet strategy bringing telepresence to the reach of Joes and Janes li

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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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