Third-party market research report positions Trend Micro as the leading provider of cloud security software. Trend Micro, the global cloud security leader, is the major player leading the fast-growing Global Cloud Security Software market, according to TechNavio’sGlobal Cloud Security Software Market report. The current overall TechNavio estimate for the global cloud security software market was… read more »
This is Part 2 in my series of post on the topic of PaaS (Platform as a Service) and in this post I have covered why PaaS for enterprises is more than just DevOps and a larger “technology convergence” in the core “Software Engineering” area is leading this perfect storm called PaaS. The 1st part is: What… read more »
Entrepreneurs and Cloud enthusiasts at Cloud Conclave 2011 had every reason to be at Cloud Nine. The Lord of all things distributed had arrived to address them. Dr.Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, began his key note address amidst an excited audience who gave him a welcome worthy of a rockstar. “We are still trying to… read more »
This is the 1st part of the multi-part series on ‘What is PaaS all about?’ Let’s start from seeing the “Platform” story prior to Cloud. Enterprise IT did a lot of heavy lifting. They hand crafted the platform by combining various products like App Servers, Web Servers, Databases, Middleware, Integration Servers, Portal Servers, Workflow Engines and… read more »
Every other day there is a new cloud product / platform announcement. Not just startups even the mega ISVs are jumping into the cloud bandwagon. Oracle’s Larry Elision first says cloud is all crap and then announces ‘Cloud-in-a-box’ sort of an oxymoron and in this year’s OOW Oracle makes a flamboyant announcement is just one… read more »
Two prominent developments in the recent past are influencing how we design and deploy software, Cloud Computing and Mobile Computing. Cloud computing with its inherent scale on demand removes the constraint to design for a fixed hardware capacity; software has to scale as and when required. With mobile computing becoming pervasive, having a mobile application… read more »
It can be argued that Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) have been sufficiently commoditized so as to neutralize any “breakthrough” competitive advantage they might originally have presented. In simple terms, once everybody’s doing it, you have to do it just to keep pace. If only one bank had Automated Teller Machines, that bank would have a big… read more »
Vendor lock in has been an issue voiced against cloud computing since the term achieved popularity. Enterprises with boat loads of investment in computing infrastructure didn’t take cloud seriously sensing the risk, but the advantages of the cloud far outweighed the disadvantages for startups. Hence cloud services saw massive adoption in them. Heroku, AirBnB and… read more »
It’s almost a routine now. Every time we find ourselves at a developer forum or a technical conference, there’s invariably a question on how to get started on the cloud. The mindset and the perception has been that the cloud is the next .NET or Java. Unfortunately, some of the well known training institutes and… read more »
The concepts that are brought up here cut across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. If you disagree with any of the points, please feel free to start a discussion at the end of the post. 10. Only the CIO is concerned about cloud While the CIO is the decision maker and may take the final call… read more »
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