During IBM’s Q3 earnings call a few weeks ago, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge highlighted business analytics as a sector where Big Blue is investing significant amounts of cash. The company recently acquired data analytics company SPSS for $1.2 billion and business analytics firm RedPill. Tonight, IBM is unveiling a new internal analytics product that the company is touting as the “largest private cloud computing environment for business analytics in the world,” which launches internally with more than a petabyte of information. Along with this internal product, IBM will launch...

Sharepoint is the big giant in the enterprise collaboration space. Salesforce.com is now in the market with Salesforce Chatter, a service that embraces Facebook, Twitter and the applications within Force.com. MindTouch has the potential to compete with the large market players. Today they are announcing MindTouch Cloud, an open-source, SaaS service that integrates business data from any number of sources, including Oracle, Sugar CRM and Salesforce.com. MindTouch Cloud is meant for a business community to create their own dashboards. It allows users to collaborate with a...

I asked a question to myself: “Why has Google been incredibly successful in defending and growing its core as well as introducing non-core disruptive innovations?”. To answer my own question I ran down Google’s innovation strategy through Clayton Christensen’s concepts and framework as described in his book “Seeing What’s Next”. Here is the analysis: Google’s latest disruptive innovation is the introduction of free GPS on the Android phone. This has grave implications for Garmin. To put this innovation in the context it is a...

Cloud computing heralds an evolution of business that is no less influential than e-business, according to Gartner Inc. Gartner maintains that the very confusion and contradiction that surrounds the term “cloud computing” signifies its potential to change the status quo in the IT market. Gartner defines cloud computing as a style of computing where massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided “as a service” using Internet technologies to multiple external customers. “During the past 15 years, a continuing trend toward IT industrialization has grown...

Cloud Computing and its related initiatives (Virtualization, SaaS, Grid, SOA, Web 2.0 / WOA) hold tremendous potential for modern enterprises. This e-zine will aim to explore the economics of Cloud, the business implications for various industries, and the technology enablers that make Cloud Computing a reality. read more

RightScale, the cloud manager, has integrated its platform with New Relic’s real-time RPM Ruby-on-Rails application performance management software. So RightScale users should be able to detect, diagnose, and fix performance problems with their cloud-borne Rails applications. CEO Michael Crandell says, “Ruby on Rails has always been one of the most popular development frameworks for web applications on the RightScale platform.” RPM read more

In a follow up to my October 23rd post on Arista Networks attempting to copyright / trademark the term “Cloud Networking” The companies CEO Jayshree Ullal has stated that they will no longer be attempting to trademark the term. (Mission accomplished). In a recent post she shed some light on the topic saying “It has been 100+ days since Arista Networks formally unveiled our new name, Cloud Networking mission and our much talked about leadership team. What is clear is more has been achieved in 100 days of Cloud Networking than is possible in 100 weeks.” read...

Glenn Brunette, Chief Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect for Sun Microsystems, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Security is consistently rated as a leading customer concern impeding the full scale adoption of Cloud Computing. At the same time, security is viewed as complicated and painful. In this session, Brunette will address how to help to ease the pain by focusing on the key issues to be considered along with specific best practices for deployment....

Raghavan Srinivas, Technology Evangelist for Intuit, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Is cloud computing hype or reality? Is it mere old wine in new bottles and the advancement of the notion that the “network is the computer?” Attend this hands-on session to get a very brief overview of the terminology associated with cloud computing, what the different “?aaS” platforms mean and to build a simple CRUD application that can be deployed on...