August 9, 2010
Posted in Design
By
Krishnan Subramanian
From time to time, we share videos related to the topics we cover here at Cloud Ave. The idea behind these posts is to share the videos we liked or found important with the readers of Cloud Ave. Regular readers of my post know how much I loved Google Wave. Google Wave is on death bed and even though
July 26, 2010
Posted in Design
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 forecasts the market to reach $40.5 billion by 2014, re
June 29, 2010
Posted in Design
By
Krishnan Subramanian
According to India based research firm Zinnov, the Indian cloud computing market is going to experience a ten fold growth by 2015. According to the firm, the current cloud computing market is $110 Million today with, approximately, 66 Million in the SaaS market dominated by applications such as coll
June 25, 2010
Posted in Design
By
Ben Kepes
I’ve written
before about Pearl, the UK based “mini-ERP” that just seems to do everything.
I’ve always thought of it as the little engine that could, with a team of only
five people they have managed to build a solution that covers the majority of
bases that a real world business might
June 16, 2010
Posted in Design
By
Ben Kepes
So this is a bit of a rant. I was at the Google IO keynote a month ago and sat transfixed at the Froyo demonstration. The mobile operating system that promised to provide an answer to mobile speed, cancer and early balding. I got my free HTC EVO, sold it and bought a Nexus One fully expecting the u
June 10, 2010
Posted in Design
By
Ben Kepes
All around nice guy, and superstar sans hair Mike Maney suggested a new title for this post - "SecondLife Heads for the Afterlife" - I kind of agree with him. Mike, this one's for you....I was at the Enterprise 2.0 conference last year when Linden Labs announced Second Life for Enterprise. I held
By
Ben Kepes
Just the other day Krish posted about the new partnership between Apigee and Heroku the Ruby PaaS player. Hot on the heels of that announcement comes news that EngineYard are partnering with TerreMark to provide a more enterprise class Ruby PaaS. First some background – EngineYard already has Ap
By
Ben Kepes
I’ve written previously about Service-now, an enterprise level service management tool. The other day I had an email from Doron Gordon, CEO of SAManage, an Israeli on-demand IT Asset & Service management service. Gordon was keen to get me to take a look at SAManage and in his introductory emai
By
Ben Kepes
I talk a lot about Air New Zealand. After flying around 200000 kilometers with them last year, and being well on my way to doing more than that this year, I speak from experience. So.. here’s a couple of examples why. Take a flight within New Zealand on AirNZ and you’re not greeted by a crusty
By
Ben Kepes
I’ve written before about Cloud Sherpas, a cloud computing systems integrator and application developer. They’re a Google Apps reseller that also created SherpaTools for Google Apps, a free app that gives more administrator functionality to Google Apps users. Only a few days ago, Cloud Sherpas
Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include many industries from manufacturing and property to technology. More on Ben
Krishnan Subramanian is an entrepreneur, cloud computing analyst and consultant, open source researcher and evangelist, one of the industry’s most prolific bloggers. More on Krishnan