Monthly Archives: July 2010

July 27, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Geminare Launches Cloud Storage Assurance 2.0

By Ben Kepes

Geminare Incorporated, a Canadian vendor providing Recovery as a Service solutions to the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector today announced the launch of the Cloud Storage Assurance 2.0 (CSA 2.0) platform. CSA is a cloud storage and archiving engine that provides an auditable backup and archiving solution that can

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July 26, 2010 Posted in Design 1 Comment

IDC Says SaaS Is Making It Big In Enterprises

By Krishnan Subramanian

Today morning I wrote a post that pointed to a Gartner report that said SaaS revenues from enterprise application market has increased 14.1 percent in 2010 compared to 2009. Now the market research firm IDC has come out with a study that forecas…

July 26, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Gartner Says SaaS Is Growing Big In Enterprise Application Software Markets

By Krishnan Subramanian

SaaS is slowly gaining adoption not just in the small and mid market range but also in big enterprises. According to a new Gartner report “Software as a Service 2009-2014″, the SaaS revenues within the enterprise software market will grow in 2010 by 1…

July 26, 2010 Posted in Best Practices 1 Comment

Raises Be Damned! We Just Want to Surf the Internet

By Ben Kepes

It’s an indisputable fact that happy employees make for good customer service experiences that in turn, build a company’s overall brand. Bear in mind, however, that now is arguably the first time in history that employee happiness has been give…

July 26, 2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Software Delivery Approaches – Debunking the Myths

By Ben Kepes

Recently I’ve been presenting a number of “SaaS 101” events and have been reminded of how many people lump SaaS and ASP into the same box. It seemed well overdue for a report to be created that compared and contrasted on premise, hosted/ASP and SaaS and gave buyers some guidance

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July 25, 2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

Video: Simon Wardley On Innovation, Change And Commoditization

By Krishnan Subramanian

Simon Wardley, a researcher at the Leading Edge Forum at CSC, gave a phenomenal talk at OSCON 10 this week. Irrespective of whether you are associated with Open Source or Cloud Computing, you may find this talk extremely useful. Anyone interested in un…

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 bee…

July 23, 2010 Posted in Just for fun 1 Comment

T Shirt Friday #52 – Google Guide

By Ben Kepes

This T shirt is one that got through the gaps – I can’t actually remember where I got given it, if it’s one of yours feel free to drop me a line to claim the credit for it!

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July 23, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Openstack Joins Cloud Audit

By Krishnan Subramanian

When Openstack project was announced on Monday, there were two reasons for my excitement. The foremost being its open source licensing with a potential to disrupt the industry. The second one was the tweets by Chris Hoff (@beaker) whose initial react…

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 us…

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