Monthly Archives: August 2010

August 31, 2010 Posted in Strategy 1 Comment

Is Google App Engine Silently Gaining Traction?

By Krishnan Subramanian

When Google released its PaaS offering called Google App Engine, it attracted Web 2.0 developers in big numbers but it didn’t gain much traction like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft platform. In fact, in May 2010, Network World had an article quoting …

August 31, 2010 Posted in Best Practices Leave a comment

Will Tweet for Beer: How Epic Beer Is Reaching Customers

By Ben Kepes

Epic Beer is a boutique, premium brewery based in New Zealand. It’s winning accolades all around the world for the quality of its product, but more relevant to us here at Zengage, they’re doing it via direct conversations with the… Read more

August 31, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Zetta Wants You To Forget Using Traditional Backup Solutions

By Krishnan Subramanian

Zetta, the two year old company offering storage as a service targeted towards enterprises, yesterday announced the availability of Zetta Data Protection Solution and they are demoing their offering at the VMworld booth at San Francisco this week. In t…

August 30, 2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

Timepass: If You Thought The Bidding War Between HP And Dell Over 3Par Was Ugly

By Krishnan Subramanian

If you thought the bidding war between HP and Dell over 3Par is getting ugly, you will be surprised to know how personal it gets among the folks in these organizations . The following picture starring @HPStorageGuy, @3parfarley and @DellServe…

August 30, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Updated: Openstack.org – A Rackspace Hailmary Pass?

By Krishnan Subramanian

Last week, Clouderati Twitter stream was full of back and forth arguments on possible dumping of Amazon API by Openstack. It all started with a recent Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group meetup on Openstack. One of the takeaways from the meeting is th…

August 29, 2010 Posted in Strategy Leave a comment

Cisco Planning To Acquire Skype To Target Consumer Market?

By Krishnan Subramanian

Mike Arrington has made a post talking about a possible acquisition of Skype by Cisco. According to him there are talks to acquire Skype at a price near $5 Billion before they complete the IPO process.Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype before the…

August 26, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Openstack iPad App Is Coming To A Store Near You

By Krishnan Subramanian

After Openstack was launched

with much fanfare during OSCON, there has been a flurry of activity on the development community with thousands of contribution from hundreds of developers. Even though the main contribution is towards compute and storage…

August 26, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Perform The Hybrid Cloud Dance Easily With newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus

By Krishnan Subramanian

Cloud Computing is both inspiring and confusing to many people. When you realize the efficiency and cost savings offered by the cloud, you get inspired but when you listen to the marketing folks, you get confused. The reason is pretty straightforward. …

August 25, 2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Another Entrant in the Cloud Accounts Space – Saasu and Acclipse Link Up

By Ben Kepes

News today that Saasu (more on them here), the online accounting software vendor, and Acclipse, the accounting practice management software vendor, have formed a deep partnership to market an end to end system that allows accountants and businesses to work off the same data. This follows on from MYOB’s moves

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August 25, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Novell Announces The General Availability Of Its Cloud Security Service

By Krishnan Subramanian

Novell has been talking about cloud and cloud security for more than a year now and, slowly, we are getting a glimpse of where they are going. After realizing that Cloud has taken off in a big way, Novell has been trying to position themselves as …

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.