• SUSE, Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes

     

    Last week at its conference in Prague, open source vendor SUSE had a few announcements in the platform and container space. Before I delve into those announcements, I have a long and somewhat torturous disclosure to make. A number…

  • NetApp and Rubrik, a David and Goliath situation? Part Three

     

    Part three (and, you’ll be relieved, the final installment) of this multi part post comparing and contrasting NetApp and Rubrik looks at the two companies and prognosticates on their respective futures. First, to the incumbent NetApp is attempting a…

  • NetApp and Rubrik, a David and Goliath situation? Part One

     

    While attending Cloud Field Days in the Bay area recently, I spent time with both NetApp and Rubrik. I visited NetApp on its campus the day before Cloud Field Days actually started. While there I met with a number…

  • Insightly intends to replicate its Google success with Microsoft

     

    Insightly is a lightweight (and I say that not in the pejorative sense) CRM that is designed for small businesses and sole traders. It has grown to prominence primarily through deep involvements in third-party marketplaces. In particular, the Google…

  • Yet another partnership, Expensify automates Lyft expensing

     

    A small move that will have a big impact on stressed out corporate types. I’ve been following Expensify since soon after its inception back in 2008. The company has, since its founding, seldom been out of the news. Hardly…

  • The power of an ecosystem: Salesforce, FinancialForce and Traction on Demand get Synergistic

     

    A beautiful example of symbiosis and justification for the term “ecosystem.” While attending FinancialForce’s CommunityLive conference recently I took the opportunity to sit down with Greg Malpass, founder and CEO of Traction on Demand. Traction is a Salesforce consulting…

  • Epicor and the struggle with the past.

     

    Epicor’s event was chock full of the difficulties that legacy vendors face plotting a path to a viable future. Update – Since writing this post I had a long discussion with Epicor execs about their technology road map, positioning…

  • DigitalOcean releases its load balancer product

     

    Every time Gartner or another analyst firm publishes a report detailing what is happening in the public cloud landscape, three names rise to the top. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is always in first place, and it is only the…

  • GoDaddy ups the WordPress ante

     

    Interesting news today from GoDaddy that it is aggressively moving into the WordPress space and looking to own a far bigger chunk of the market for small businesses hosting WordPress sites. WordPress is, of course, the open-source blogging platform…

  • GoDaddy goes cloud, and throws in applications for good measure

     

    GoDaddy is a funny beast. On the one hand the hosting business is huge, boasting 14 million customers worldwide and managing over 60 million domain names. It offers primarily small-business owners a one-stop shop. A place to buy their…

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