Gartner: Will VMware become the next Novell?

While some comments there [including mine] were re-pondering over the Gartner ponder, I just couldn’t help wondering over the session I just gave on Smart Metering the Clouds about the “stupidity” of us people/humans and how we always tend to choose/make the “right” decisions.
History teaches us just one thing: “A distant memory of pain/defeat experienced [...]

VMware Arms for Microsoft Battle

Former Microsoft executives Paul Maritz and Tod Nielsen know a thing or two about how the software giant snuffs out budding threats. They helped Microsoft battle upstart Netscape in the late 1990s. Now they’re on the receiving end.
Maritz and Nielsen run VMware, a software company with $1.9 billion in revenue that has become the standard-setter [...]

Forrester: Virtualization is mainstream, Clouds on the rise

Key findings of the Forrester survey include:

x86 server virtualization adoption: Fifty-four percent of enterprises have implemented x86 server virtualization or are doing so within the next 12 months. Fifty-three percent of SMBs have already implemented x86 server virtualization or are doing so within the next 12 months.

Virtualization of OS: Enterprises report virtualizing 31 percent of [...]

Browser wars in the Cloud: IE’s share falls to its lowest at 67%

This is an interesting development. Not because of Microsoft’s browser but the list of all those Cloud OSs [something which we continue to deny as the true OS for the SitApps or RIApps]. Look at the results and look at all those new browsers in the game. While we may battle on virtualization and all [...]

Sustainable Global Clouds channel launched on BrightTALK; first breakthrough Cloud FPI Model talk on 9th Feb 2009!

Since I had promised my friends [ you all] on some new and exciting stuff, I just wanted to keep my promise and want to really do cool stuff in the Cloud. The very idea [sic] of being able to discuss my mad mind with the rest of the world in the Cloud means that [...]

Cloud wars on the horizon

Merrill Lynch once forecast that the cloud computing Consolidate Mac Servers. Run Windows Server on your Mac. Watch a Demo or Download a Trial. market would reach an eye-popping US$160 billion by 2011, a prediction that mostly drew skepticism. While sizing up the expectations for a nascent tech market is equal parts art and science, [...]

Satyam scam: Can Indian firms be trusted?

How much did it scare you when you found out that there was something going on with this firm and finally the truth came out? Were you shell shocked? Did you wonder how it all came to? Well I can guarantee you one thing, this has happened before and will keep happening. My last subscription of National Geographic tried to frame Herod as the great, creative, paranoid, mad, psychotic genius and not just the baby killer as he is spoken of in the Church. But still the fact remains the we are experiencing something very similar and that has happened in the past. It has happened all the time and it will continue to happen. There is a very thin line between knowing good from bad. Still these men choose bad.

Financial Times: Microsoft left behind in Cloud hungry netbook race

My set of predictions are going to be dramatic but anyways like the last one I dished out in Jan 2008, here are some simple and straight forward predictions:

Prediction 1: Major SaaS/IaaS Coverged All Stop Shop will emerge replacing the gods of the 90s and yes it will soon develop a $100M YOY runrate
Prediction 2: [...]

Portable devices to fuel Cloud Computing adoption

I am happy to see Laura doing well with her firm since Yankee Group yanked out a lot of analysts. Watch to what Laura has to say to Reuters:
Chances are the mobile phone tucked in your pocket, the lightweight laptop in your backpack, or the navigation system in your car are under a cloud.
That means [...]

Top 50 possible Cloud Computing Providers for 2009

I have accumulated this list of firms that could possibly end up fighting and even merging eventually to fight the commoditization monster that will, in its contractionary grip, squeeze the little players out The middle-weights, will have to find a way to go downwards, innovate and rise to gradually grab the rest of the pie.
Note [...]