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- The Cloud era and open source
- My co-blogger Paula has a great piece over at Dan Kuznetsky's shop this morning, concerning an open source cloud computing platform called Enomaly. Everybody has a cloud these days. Google has a cloud. Microsoft has a cloud. Sun has a cloud. Now, you can have a cloud...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Cloud, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- SOA and compute Clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tables
- There's nothing like a conversation to bring out insights and new ideas. Tony Baer and I were chatting on this very pearl of productivity last week, that an open roundtable analyst call always allowed us to move the needle forward in terms of thought leadership in ways that solo writing...
- Tags: Permission, Data, SOA, Cloud, Cloud Business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Sales, Marketing, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Google and Salesforce.com: still not a done deal
- In all the excitement around the Google and Salesforce.com tie up, an email turned up from Sridhar Vembu, Zoho's CEO. He claims that Salesforce.com is operating a 1990's business model and that the partnership will end in tears. Why should this matter? Salesforce.com has clearly put a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud, Vembu, InfoStreet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Gangsta Cloud wars could pivot on the traffic-driving power of Google and Microsoft/Yahoo
- As Phil Wainewright points out, the platform as a service PaaS wars are ramping up with the arrival of Google App Engine. And while there will be preferences around Python or Ruby, stack or ala carte -- there's one ingredient that Google and Microsoft/Yahoo sure to follow suit can bring...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Elastra emerges to make Cloud computing more attainable for enterprises
- Cloud computing as a concept has been gathering significant interest in the past months, but aside from developers, testers and startups, the ability to exploit the efficiencies and cost-benefits of cloud computing for average enterprises have remained hard to grasp. Startup Elastra unveiled its approach today to...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Cloud, Elastra, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Microsoft's Platform as a Service Plans: Putting the Pieces Together
- Microsoft is getting into the platform as a service PaaS market, and doing so in a rather major, though stealthy way. It's no secret that the company's Software+Services strategy has a lot of PaaS capabilities, but putting together information from announcements and briefings at this week's Dynamics Convergence conference, as...
- Tags: Release, Microsoft Corp., Service, Cloud, Operational Accounting, Data Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Finance, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Marketing, Management, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Cloud (exe)
- Cloud combines an experimental game mechanic with a moody, surreal environment. The player is Yun, a cloud boy, who can soar through the sky gathering and shaping the clouds. Clouds are dark or light, and as Yun makes his way, he must purify the dark clouds he finds by surrounding...
- Tags: Player, Cloud, USC Interactive Media Division, Clouds, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-03-07
- Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
- Cloud computing is getting hot, as in hot promises, hot press releases, and some hot contentions about who's platform is going to win the latest battleground in on-demand/SaaS. The answer my friend, is largely blowing in the wind. But not for long…. To be sure, there's a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Cape Clear Software, On-demand, Vision, Workday, Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Sales Force Management, Strategy, Sales, Management, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Microsoft Kool-Aid and the Cloud
- Responding to my recent assertion that Microsoft's software-plus-services mantra is bunkum, Gianpaolo Carraro — the company's chief thinker about SaaS architecture — wonders if he's drunk too much Kool-Aid. The answer, my friend, is 'yes'. Here's Gianpaolo's justification for still wanting to buy an Office licence and...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Transportation, Tools & Techniques, Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Will the biggest Clouds stay open source?
- Everyone wants to become Google these days. In a way. Google runs Linux. A lot of enterprises, from banking to health care, are now looking to deploy gigantic Internet-facing applications to customer sets numbering in the tens of millions. (Government, too.) ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Photos: Southwest canyon wonders
- Canyons in Arizona and Utah offer stunning tableaus. Here, a look at some of the more awe-inspiring scenes.CNET News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman has been traveling through the Southwest for the last three weeks on Road Trip 2007, and much of the last week or so has been spent in Arizona...
- Tags: photograph, North Rim, Monument Canyon, Grand Canyon, Canyon, National Park Service, erosion, ruin, thunderstorm, debris, New Mexico, cloud, park, White House, Colorado, attraction, wall, Microsoft Windows
- Image galleries 2007-08-09
- No demand for Microsoft Office in the Cloud?
- While I was at the SAP Sapphire 2007 conference this week I ran into Jeff Raikes, president of Microsofts Business Division. He was at the event to promote the extended roadmap of Duet, the collaboration between the two companies that integrates Microsoft Office and SAP business processes. I asked Raikes...
- Tags: General, Microsoft, Office 2.0, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- 'Volta': Microsoft's dev platform in the Cloud?
- Next week is Microsofts much-touted Mix 07 conference. Microsoft has been saying for months that the company will share its vision for its Live development platform at the Las Vegas show. No one from Microsoft is ready or willing to talk publicly about the details yet. Soma Somasegar, the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Code names, WPF/e, Windows Live, SQL Server, Research, Google, Database, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- UnClouding the business case for 'inside-out' SOA
- Developing the business justification may be one of the most difficult parts of an SOA project. However, the business case for inside-out SOA may have already been in play for at least a decade at many companies. The business case for SOA services extended to partners was already...
- Tags: General, Business ROI, Web Services, SOA
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- SOA reaches out to the Cloud -- will business follow?
- ZDNet blogging colleague Dion Hinchcliffe predicts 2007 is the year SOA will begin to open up more to the Internet cloud, and Im inclined to agree with him. And I want to take this scenario a step further and look at what this means for the SOA business case. Things...
- Tags: General, SOA
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- A $2,500 billion sun umbrella?
- The global warming effect could trim about $7,000 billion to the global economy if nothing is done about it check here for details. A University of Arizona professor thinks he has a solution if we don't act fast enough to develop renewable sources of energy. He wants to reduce the...
- Tags: Space &, Aerospace, Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2006-11-04
- Bliss Island (exe)
- Hoshi is a Zwooph. A small furry blue creature, with a thick strong neck, a fluffy tail and a long trunk from which he can emit precision puffs of air. He inhabits a small tropical island where he spends his days, along with the other Zwoophs, blowing up into the...
- Tags: Cloud, Hoshi, Games, Recruitment & Selection, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2006-10-02
- Will terror push us into the coud?
- A couple of days ago, I wrote about the "need" for a Web OS and opined that replication of what already works is not likely to influence the vast majority of PC users to the cloud. I concluded that post by saying the following: ...
- Tags: cloud, laptop computer
- Blog posts 2006-08-11
- Will terror push us into the Cloud?
- A couple of days ago, I wrote about the "need" for a Web OS and opined that replication of what already works is not likely to influence the vast majority of PC users to the cloud. I concluded that post by saying the following: "That movement will be driven...
- Tags: laptop computer, cloud
- Blog posts 2006-08-11
- Photos: Walking above the Clouds
- Space shuttle Discovery astronauts take three space walks to upgrade the space station and test emergency repairs.
- Tags: cloud
- Image galleries 2006-07-13
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