Oracle PaaS Speculations
Oracle has scheduled a webcast this Wednesday where their CEO, Larry Ellison, and President, Mark Hurd, are going to make some announcements regarding Oracle Cloud and platinum support services. There...
View ArticleIntelligent Platforms – PaaS For The Internet Of Things
Recently, I travelled to India to give a talk at Cloud Connect conference in Bangalore. The talk is based on the Intelligent Platforms model I have been advocating in this space. It is similar to what...
View ArticleCloupia Expands Beyond Flexpod As They Update Their Offerings
Cloupia (previous CloudAve coverage), the Santa Clara based company offering automation and orchestration solutions, announced last week that they are enhancing their product to meet the needs of...
View ArticleTips For Google+ Hangouts
I have been using Google+ hangouts ever since it came out and in the past couple of months, I have used it to effectively run online panel discussions on various topics of interest. In fact, I see...
View ArticleOpenStack Community By The Numbers
OpenStack (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There are lot of questions about whether OpenStack Community can be truly vendor neutral. The OpenStack Foundation Board has three tiers (see my previous post...
View ArticleNope, Ben Is Wrong About What I Said And Open Source
The Open Source Initiative keyhole. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Today Ben Kepes of Diversity Ltd. made a post about OpenStack. Without going into the merits of his post, I will like to address a...
View ArticleTungle.Me Shutdown And What I Expect From An Alternative Service
Image via CrunchBase Tungle.me, a great calendar scheduling application I have been using for the past 3+ years, announced today that they are shutting down their service. RIM acquired them sometime...
View ArticleQuestions To Ponder: Services World And Integrated Stacks
Picture Credit: Mediabistro.com I have decided to start a new series called “Questions To Ponder” which I will push out on some Fridays. The idea is to take a controversial topic and ask a few...
View ArticleGridstore Announces Funding With An Aim To Disrupt Storage Market
Gridstore, the Mountain View based distributed storage vendor, today announced Series A funding lead by GGV Capital and Onset Ventures along with participation from their existing investors. Gridstore...
View ArticleOpenStack Infighting: Will It Affect The Project?
It has been 2+ years since OpenStack was launched and the project is slowly maturing as organizations are exploring the use of OpenStack for their private cloud needs. As money gets into the ecosystem,...
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