The semi-mythical Facebook phone is back in the news today, giving NewNet players a good excuse to read the entire TechCrunch interview…
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With VMworld news dying down, some other potentially big stories are able to make their ways to the forefront. Today, those are…
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I read an interesting prediction today: By 2014, VMware will have split into an IaaS business and a PaaS business, and will…
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To start, I feel obligated to acknowledge that the Facebook-ARM rumor I commented on yesterday is false, according to Facebook’s own Jonathan…
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The possibility that net neutrality might be undermined by private agreements between stakeholders should have cloud computing users wondering what this means…
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EMC and VMware both announced strong earnings today, and both should expect to see even stronger results as cloud computing adoption picks…
Read MoreIs Microsoft Turning Cloud Business into PC Business?
I wrote a few weeks ago that “Microsoft taught the world how to succeed in PC and business software, but it might [be] teaching the world how to not succeed in cloud computing” — a fate the company could avoid if it just delivered on a clear vision. With Windows Azure Appliances, it looks like Microsoft has decided on that vision: Treat cloud computing like it treated the PC business.…
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I’m intrigued by the notion of Rackspace selling Windows Azure, whether it’s done on dedicated hardware or as a publicly hosted service.…
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It looks like I returned from vacation just in time to catch some serious cloud computing news, namely Microsoft’s decision to sell…
Read MoreWhat Microsoft Can Teach Us About Cloud Computing
The more Microsoft talks about cloud computing – which it did a lot of at TechEd last week – the more skepticism it seems to engender. Some excavations into its cloud strategy have left customers and pundits alike scratching their heads. Microsoft taught the world how to succeed in PC and business software, but it might teaching the world how to not succeed in cloud computing.…
Read MoreAre IaaS Clouds Becoming Arms Dealers for PaaS Clouds?
When all is said and done, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce.com and others might be battling it out for PaaS (and SaaS) dollars against a whole slew of smaller providers operating within the infrastructural confines of AWS, Rackspace, Terremark and Savvis. PaaS and SaaS providers will need infrastructure to house their services, and large providers have plenty to sell them.…
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I just got off an enlightening call with TIBCO, during which I learned that Silver, the company’s cloud application platform, is externally…
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Geva Perry’s recent post on GigaOM sparked some good discussion on the need for a LAMP-based PaaS offering. However, whether or not…
Read MoreHow Google Put the Cloud Computing World on Notice
I wrote last week that the time might be right for Amazon Web Services to launch its own platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, if only to preempt any competitive threat from other providers’ increasingly business-friendly PaaS offerings. That stance is firmer than ever now that Google has introduced to the world App Engine for Business, which further advances the PaaS value proposition.…
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I was all excited to write about the spate of new Hadoop distributions, tools and integrations, and then I read that Google…
Read MoreAre the Stars Aligning for an Amazon PaaS Offering?
Right now, PaaS is hot and getting hotter, with the consensus being that it eventually will replace IaaS as the preferred cloud model for many developers. It would be wise for AWS to leverage its current IaaS lead and preempt any serious momentum by PaaS providers. If it does so, the cloud-computing discussion will take on an entirely different tenor as PaaS providers scramble to differentiate themselves from AWS in this area, too.…
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When will the internal-cloud market slow down? Yahoo today announced that it will be open-sourcing its internal cloud-management platform early next year,…
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The prospect of Ruby-centric PaaS provider expanding its platform’s capabilities to cover additional application types should worry some in the cloud-provider market.…
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You’ve likely heard about the SpringSource/VMware acquisition of data-fabric vendor GemStone Systems this afternoon, so I figure I’ll spare the scalable data…
Read MoreVMforce: Who’s the Biggest Winner?
Much already has been written about this week’s VMforce announcement, but my question is who’s the biggest winner in this partnership — Salesforce.com or VMware? And of Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and the entire SaaS-based CRM community, who all seem to have taken hard hits, who's the biggest loser?…
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We finally found out today what Salesforce.com and VMware meant with their cryptic “VMforce is coming” ads, and I guess it was…
Read MoreCould SaaS + PaaS Equal Cloud Computing Gold?
Microsoft this week rolled it CampaignReady suite of services, which is anchored by the Windows Azure-hosted TownHall service. But Microsoft’s SaaS-plus-PaaS business model has legs beyond politics, and beyond Redmond. The combination of cloud services designed for and hosted on cloud platforms seems like a surefire strategy to secure PaaS (or even IaaS) adoption because it lets applications help sell the platform instead of relying on the platform itself.…
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When I read about Microsoft’s new TownHall political-campaign service, I realized again why Microsoft might be poised to make a lot of…
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Facebook has been experiencing some problems – an issue that has apparently worried some of the thousands of developers whose livelihood relies…
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