By Merv Adrian on November 26, 2010
Cloudera‘s continuing focus on the implications of explosive data growth has led it to another key partnership, this time with Informatica. Connecting to the dominant player in data integration and data quality expands the opportunity for Cloudera dramatically; it enables the de facto commercial Hadoop leader to find new ways to empower the “silent majority” [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Amazon, Cloudera, data integration, data quality, Data warehouse, EC2, EDW, hadoop, HDFS, ibm, Industry Trends, Informatica, mapreduce, master data management, Membase, RDBMS, Siperian, Sqoop, Teradata, Vertica |
By Bob Warfield on August 27, 2010
My head is starting to hurt with all the back and forth among my Enterprise Irregulars buddies about the relationships between the complex concepts of Multitenancy, Private, and Public Clouds. A set of disjoint conversations and posts came together like the whirlpool in the bottom of a tub when it drains. I was busy with [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Cloud, data center, EC2, enterprise software, grid, multicore, multitenancy, platforms, SaaS, service, software as a service, tenancy debate, VMware |
By Bob Warfield on May 7, 2010
Netflix has always been an extremely progressive company. I know the founders, Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings well, and many of the employees too. There is an amazing amount of brainpower behind the scenes there and it shows with their great products and great story. I read with interest Larry Dignan’s piece about their usage [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon, Cloud, EC2, Netflix, Reed Hastings, SaaS |
By Tom Raftery on April 27, 2010
Cloud computing may not be as Green as you think. I mentioned previously that I gave a keynote presentation at the Green IT Summit in Dublin last week. In the question and answers session after the talk, Sean Baker asked about cloud computing and whether I thought companies using cloud computing weren’t simply outsourcing their [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon, app engine, Azure, canonical, Cloud Computing, EC2, elastic cloud compute, Energy, energy efficiency, google, green, ibm, microsoft, salesforce, sean baker, Simon Wardley, Sustainability |
By R "Ray" Wang on April 22, 2010
Lawson External Cloud Services Represents A Big Step In On Demand ERP Options On March 31, 2010, Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) announced the Lawson External Cloud Services offering. The venerable St. Paul, Minnesota vendor plans to deliver the full ERP Suite including Lawson S3, Lawson M3, and Lawson Talent Management via Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon EC2, Apps Strategy, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, crm, deployment options, EC2, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise performance management, enterprise software, erp, HCM, HR, iaas, Infrastructure as a service, Intentia, Lawson, Lawson CUE, Lawson Global Users Group, Lawson M3, Lawson S3, Lawson Software, Lawson Talent Management, Lawson Test Drive, license policy, Mid market, News Analysis, Oracle Enterprise Manager, SaaS, saas bigots, SCM, social enterprise apps, Software Insider, software trends, Software Vendors, SoftwareInsider, strategy, subscription pricing, supply chain, True SaaS, vendor strategy, virtualization |
By Bob Warfield on March 29, 2010
SaaS software is much more dependent on being run by the numbers than conventional on-premises software because the expenses are front loaded and the costs are back loaded. SAP learned this the hard way with its Business By Design product, for example. If you run the numbers, there is a high degree of correlation between [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud, cost reduction, data center, EC2, enterprise software, Helpstream, mySQL, Open source, platforms, SaaS, salesforce.com, Software development, startups |
By Phil Wainewright on January 15, 2010
The new year has kicked off with some contrasting cross-currents for enterprise cloud aficianados and neophytes alike. On the positive side of the balance sheet, there’s a new and surprising Gartner prediction that a fifth of enterprises will have migrated…
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, EC2, heroku, latency, network latency, salesforce.com, Service level agreement |