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AppZero Eases Applications Moving to AWS 26 Aug 2013 | 09:15 pm
I wrote recently of the fact that almost every “cloud application migration” vendor had pivoted their messaging all of a sudden away from the fraught area of cloud bursting to more conservative, but u...
GreenQloud – Because PRISM isn’t the Only Way for Non US Clouds to Differentiate 23 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
Since the news broke of PRISM and the other big Government spying programs, there has been an almost deafening number of non-US cloud vendors use the news as a justification for their product. The hig...
CloudBeat – Coming Fast! 23 Aug 2013 | 02:35 am
For the third year running, Paul Miller and myself are consulting to VentureBeat and helping craft a conference agenda devoid of the usual vendor pitches and in their place full of real world customer...
Punakaiki Fund Launches – Early Stage High Growth Opportunities for Mum and Dad Investors 22 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
Disclosure – Lance Wiggs, the main person behind both Lance Wiggs Capital Management and the Punakaiki Fund, is a personal friend. He’s cast his eye over some investment opportunities I’ve taken to hi...
Zendesk moves Beyond Support – Launches Self-Service Help Center 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Zendesk (disclosure – in the distant past I did a small amount of consulting to the company) is a company I’ve been following almost since its inception 6 or so years ago. In that time they’ve done an...
Cloud Brokers, Fungibility and the Amazon-Shaped Elephant in the Room 20 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
Fungibility is an interesting thing. And super important in the cloud infrastructure space where people opine on the ability for customers to “swap out” one IaaS provider for another. Fungibility is d...
Cloud Migration Vendors – The End of the Golden Weather 19 Aug 2013 | 09:39 pm
Over the past couple of years there have been a large number of startups gain attention and funding by promising the holiest of grails – effortless migration of workloads between cloud vendors. This p...
SAP+hybris – Omnichannel Buzzword Bingo or Delivering a True Step-Change? 16 Aug 2013 | 09:18 pm
Disclosure – many of the companies mentioned in this post have been consulting clients – Full details on my disclosure page. A few months ago when SAP announced its acquisition of commerce systems ve...
Salesforce Performance Edition – Because Suites are Sweet 15 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
One of the strong ways Salesforce differentiates itself against other CRM players is in the fact that its various solutions form a suite of customer lifecycle products and are deeply integrated out of...
Is Cloud Foundry the Next OpenStack? 14 Aug 2013 | 10:04 pm
Disclosure – I am an adviser to ActiveState, creator of the Stackato Cloud Foundry-based PaaS. I’ve also consulted to a number of companies mentioned in this article. Full details on my disclosure pag...
