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CloudStack Graduates to an Apache Top Level Project

March 22, 2013

Business

Apache foundation, Citrix, Cloud.com, CloudStack, Dell, IBM, OpenStack, Peder Ulander

Almost a year ago Citrix scored a coup when it’s CloudStack product (which itself was formerly the cloud operating system known as cloud.com) was elevated to the cloud platform of the Apache foundation. It was all the more interesting…

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Adobe CTO to Apple–Far More Than What It Appears?

March 21, 2013

Business

adobe, Adobe Systems, Apple, Bob Mansfield, IBM, Kevin Lynch, Macromedia, SoftLayer

The big news from a few days ago was the fairly momentous bombshell that Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch was resigning from his executive role at Adobe and jumping ship to Apple where he will be filling the role of…

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Oracle Acquires Nimbula–and by Default Becomes Part of OpenStack (OMFG)

March 13, 2013

Business

cloud computing, IBM, Nimbula, OpenStack, oracle, Oracle Corporation, VMware, Yandex

Now this is one for the books, Oracle this morning announced that it has acquired cloud operating system vendor Nimbula who, only last November, announced that it was joining the OpenStack initiative. From the announcement: Oracle announced it has…

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Is Cloud A Revolution Or An Evolution?

February 20, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Business, cloud computing, e-commerce, IBM, Microsoft, United States, ZDNet

One of the reasons for setting up the CloudU program and certificate was a desire to scale the one-on-one work I do helping small and large businesses and the people that work within them understand what the cloud actually…

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Dell Boomi Announces New Milestones and Partnerships

February 8, 2013

Business

Boomi, Dell, deloitte, IBM, Infosys, Personal computer, Rick Nucci, SnapLogic, Wipro

Only days after the announcement that Dell was going to return to private ownership, Dell subsidiary Boomi has come out with some news about its integration platform This is really timely given the near universal acknowledgement that software lies…

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Fairfax Selling Remaining TradeMe Shares–My Two Cents

December 16, 2012

Business

Apple, Australasia, Business, Fairfax, IBM, New Zealand, Sam Morgan, trademe

Big news in Australasia this weekend was the planned sale of the remaining 51% that Fairfax still holds in TradeMe. Lance Wiggs has been doing the rounds of the media outlets with the view that the move is “absolutely…

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AWS, Redshift and Co-Opetition

December 3, 2012

Business

amazon, amazon-web-service, AWS, BitYota, Data warehouse, IBM, Redshift, SQL

Long time technology commentators understand the tensions between platform companies, intent on both growing their business and creating a healthy ecosystem, and ecosystem partners who leverage what the platform brings, but remain apprehensive about the long term intensions of…

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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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TwinStrata CloudArray Now Supports NAS for Heterogeneous Storage Management

November 5, 2012

Business

cloud computing, Cloud storage, CloudArray, Computer data storage, IBM, ISCSI, Server Message Block, TwinStrata

I’ve written previously about TwinStrata – a company whose CloudArray storage gateway is designed to enable organizations to deploy cloud SANs which combine public and private cloud storage providers along with their existing storage infrastructure. It’s a logical play…

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The Future of the Cloud

September 21, 2012

Business

cloud computing, IBM, opensource, OSCON, Platform as a service, Portland

While in Portland for OSCON a few months ago, I was invited to take part in an open discussion with a couple of colleagues, Krishnan Subramanian and Alex Williams. The idea of the session was to have a free…

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