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Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS

February 28, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Big data, cloudcomputing, Continuuity, DevOps, Facebook, platform services, Todd Papaioannou

When Continuuity launched late last year I was pretty skeptical given the buzzword heavy press release, light on any real specifics. After spending some time talking with the founders however I was more positive, and not only because of…

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Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

February 26, 2013

Business

amazon-web-service, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, EngineYard, Heroku, oracle, platform services, Salesforce.com, SAP, SAP AG

I kind of feel sorry for Engine Yard sometime – once seen as one of the two best-known Platform as a Service offerings (alongside Heroku), the acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce kind of reduced Engine Yard’s visibility. The subsequent…

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FinancialForce on a Tear

February 21, 2013

Business

accounting, cloudcomputing, Economic growth, FinancialForce.com, intacct, netsuite, Professional Services Automation, United States

When salesforce.com invested in FinancialForce a few years ago, there was keen interest in how this would help the company grow. There’s never been much clarity around those numbers since the parent company of FinancialForce, Unit4, doesn’t break out the individual…

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Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

February 4, 2013

Business

Ben Kepes, Chief financial officer, cloudability, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, Mat Ellis, Tyler Sloat, zuora

Recently, I moderated a CloudU roundtable that continued an ongoing theme of mine –overcoming the hurdles to greater cloud adoption. In this case we looked deeply at the cloud cost area. This is a really important problem space to…

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Bridging the Chasm Between IT and the Business

January 17, 2013

Business

Business, cloudcomputing, enStratus, Information technology, Salesforce.com, Solution, Strategic business unit, yammer

People go to great lengths to explain how cloud computing is democratizing IT and enabling the end-users of technology to make some decisions themselves about what they use, how they use it and how quickly they can get set…

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The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators, Part Two

January 11, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Application programming interface, Cloud Foundry, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, OpenStack, Platform as a service, RightScale

A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take…

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Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

January 4, 2013

Business

cloudcomputing, EngineYard, Force.Com, Heroku, platform services, Salesforce.com, Software as a Service, Visual Basic

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing what I saw happening with Salesforce – how the combination of force.com and…

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Australian Startups Sentinus Aims to “Clean Up the Cloud”

November 19, 2012

Business

adoption, Appirio, australia, Best practice, Cloud computing security, cloudcomputing, Organization, Vendor (supply chain)

Security is often identified as one of the barriers to wider cloud adoption. Even though it is often counter to reality, there is significant doubt in many organization’s minds about the relative security of cloud as opposed to their…

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Cloud app integration: Incredibly important, but also problematic

November 9, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, cloudcomputing, Extract transform load, IBM, quickbooks, Salesforce.com, SnapLogic, Software as a Service, venturebeat

Cross posted from VentureBeat My background and entry into the technology industry came from my experience wrangling tech for a number of different small and mid-sized businesses. I’ve seen first hand just how much work is involved in tailoring…

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Abiquo Gears up to Manage Heterogeneous Clouds, Survey Shows It’s Needed

October 30, 2012

Business

Abiquo, cloudcomputing, Darragh, enStratus, Member of the Scottish Parliament, VMware, VMware ESX, Zeus Technology

I’ve written before about infrastructure management vendor Abiquo – they’re a company trying hard to build awareness in a space that is insanely busy – from the large companies like VMware and their enterprise pulling power, to more lauded…

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