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 [...]
Weekend Review: Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson
October 30, 2011 By
Just finished reading the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson and thought I will add few thoughts here. Two words that came out of my mind after finishing the book: Filthy Genius I saw many reviews that talked about possible bias in favor of Jobs but I never spotted the bias. In fact, I started reading the [...]
Acquia Gets Another Round Of Funding: Commercial Open Source Is Still Strong
July 22, 2011 By
Acquia (previous CloudAve coverage), the commercial company behind open source Drupal content management software, announced the completion of Series D round of funding worth $15 Million Dollars. This round was funded by Tenaya Capital along with significant follow up participation from their existing investors, Northbridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. Acquia will tap into this [...]
SOASTA Makes It Easy For Anyone To Do Enterprise Class Performance Testing
July 19, 2011 By
SOASTA (previous CloudAve review), the California based performance testing provider, today announced a free version for their enterprise class CloudTest platform. If your organization uses consumer facing mission critical application, ensuring a high performance in the application becomes a necessity. It becomes crucial to test the application for various load conditions, network conditions and geographical [...]
Adobe Acquires Echosign
July 18, 2011 By
Adobe System Incorporated announced a few hours back that they have acquired EchoSign (see their blog post), the Palo Alto based company offering electronic signature solution. According to the company, EchoSign’s solution will be part of the Adobe document exchange platform for exchanging documents for universal access, review and approval. The solution will also be [...]
VMware Highlights Enterprise Clouds With vSphere 5
July 14, 2011 By
VMware (previous CloudAve coverage), the leader in virtualization space with some interesting cloud moves, recently announced Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Suite, a repackaged version of their offerings targeting the enterprise market and service providers. VMware has been struggling to get their cloud infrastructure services game going even though their PaaS and SaaS strategy are in strong [...]
Heroku Supports Clojure
July 5, 2011 By
Heroku (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS poster kid acquired by Salesforce.com last year, today announced that they are officially supporting Clojure, a Lisp like language taking a more functional approach, and it is now available in public beta. Clohure is the third language supported by Heroku after Ruby and Node.js. We’re very excited to announce [...]
Hadoop Looms Big After The Hadoop Summit
July 1, 2011 By
Hadoop Summit 2011 was held this week at Santa Clara and it highlighted how Hadoop has matured in the past few years. Hadoop is an open source project under Apache Foundation which aims to solve the storage and processing of big data. Based on Google’s Map Reduce, Hadoop has emerged as a major platform in [...]
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