On Jan 26th, we had a TweetChat on Cloud Computing for SMBs with the support of Dell and TrendMicro. The idea behind the TweetChat was to make SMBs understand how they can benefit from Cloud Computing. The biggest obstacle to SMBs adoption of cloud computing was summed up in a tweet by an user @clinfoot. [...]
TweetChat On Cloud Computing
January 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
On Jan 26 2011, I will be hosting a Tweet Chat on Cloud Computing in coordination with Dell and Trend Micro. In this tweet chat, we will be covering the following topics with a focus on Small and Medium Businesses (SMB). Journey into the cloud from the perspective of a small and/or midsize business owner [...]
rPath Announces Support For OpenStack and vCloud Director
April 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
rPath (see previous CloudAve coverage), the North Carolina based company offering deployment and maintenance solutions across physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced additional features to their newly launched product, called rPath X6. rPath X6 now supports OpenStack (see previous CloudAve coverage) and vCloud Director. This clearly makes rPath attractive for enterprises with the expected [...]
Research Report: Cloud Trends In 2011 And Beyond
January 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In the beginning of this year, I wrote about my plans to divide my writings here into briefs, insights and research reports. My first report was supposed to have come up in the beginning of January but various reasons lead to delaying the completion. Even though it is a bit late now to talk about [...]
Looking Back 2010: OpenStack Offers Promise
December 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Looking Back 2010 is a series of posts I am planning for this week in which I will highlight significant cloud related events that happened in this year. Please keep in mind that these are my personal opinions based on my industry observations this year. My first pick is OpenStack project (see previous CloudAve coverage) [...]
Open Source And Cloud Computing: Open Source Is The Key To Cloud Economics
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Open Source And Cloud Computing: Amazon Micro Instances Can Be Boon To SMBs
September 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Earlier today, I wrote about Amazon’s announcement on the availability of the new Micro Instances and their aggressive pricing strategy. The surprising factor for me is their competitive pricing. Their on-demand instance is only 2 cents per hour for Linux and 3 cents per hour for Windows. A 24/7 usage of a Linux Micro Instance [...]
Updated: Openstack.org – A Rackspace Hailmary Pass?
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Innovate, Leverage And Commoditize
July 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 understanding the lifecycle of an organization and how they can surf the winds [...]
OSCON Week: Microsoft And Interoperability
July 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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