Archive for October 2008
Microsoft Azure vs Amazon, Google, and VMware
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 29, 2008
- In: Amazon | Google | Microsoft | VMware
- 25 Comments
Now that we had a few days to look at Microsoft’s Windows Azure it is time to compare it with other alternatives on the market. For our comparison we picked solutions from the biggest players in the market and potential to impact the industry in that area: Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google App [...]
Keeping vendors honest
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 24, 2008
With all the outages plaguing the SaaS and Cloud Computing vendors recently there seems to be lack of independent rating system telling customers just how reliable each particular cloud service is. For example, see Richard Watson’s notes from the recent Catalyst event in Prague: When discussing SaaS, I’d like to see a SaaS suitability rating [...]
Google Apps hitting the chasm?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 22, 2008
Looks like my recent Google Apps customer base estimates need corrections and the current growth is far smaller than the one we were seeing earlier this year. What’s happening? Are they stuck getting all the technology enthusiasts and visionaries they could get, and having no way of attracting the bigger mainstream market? Let’s look at [...]
Webex Connect vs Microsoft Online Services
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 20, 2008
Bob Ives published an overview of Webex Connect and it looks like SharePoint Online and other soon to be released Microsoft-hosted collaboration tools are going to face pretty tough competition from Cisco. Feature-to-feature both companies are offering a very similar set of technologies: messaging, presence, document sharing, web meetings. So what’s the difference? It looks [...]
Google Apps failure – someone’s opportunity
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 17, 2008
- In: Google
- 5 Comments
Google Apps (including GMail) were out (again) for commercial customers this week. Considering the August outages not that long ago, this can be a significant PR blow for Google’s enterprise efforts. Or this could be a great opportunity for 3rd-parties to get in and make Google Apps enterprise-ready. Here’s a quick summary from Slashdot: “A [...]
Will Live Mesh fail like Groove did?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 14, 2008
As Microsoft is ramping up its cloud story it seems that Live Mesh is starting to be positioned as one of the key elements. For example, now the Mesh framework got renamed to just Live Framework – quite a promotion unless there’s something else added in there. I am quite skeptical about the technology and [...]
Will SaaS kill infrastructure vendors?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 10, 2008
Suppose as InfoWorld predicts the economy makes everyone look for IT outsourcing options and world goes SaaS/Cloud Computing/Hosted IT – what happens to all the infrastructure management vendors who sell a lot of software helping deploy and manage traditional on-premise systems such as AD, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, and so on? My thinking is that if [...]
Is WS-* stack dead?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 7, 2008
Just a couple of years ago Microsoft was spending incredible amount of effort developing, standardizing and publicizing their WS-* web service stack. This was a huge effort, they teamed up with IBM and others and built and documented a pretty impressive set of protocols covering every possible communications need over http. Now it looks like [...]
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- The Jelastic Spotlight May 25, 2012We are starting something new here on the blog for Fridays. Up until now, we were doing more light-hearted stuff but as we were sitting around talking about the different sweet apps that you, our customers, are deploying, we realized that we should be showcasing the apps and the developers! So, as of today, Fridays [...]
- Remote Access to MySQL in Jelastic: Import/Export Dump Files in a Few Minutes May 24, 2012Recently, we told you about that another cool feature that you have access to in the commercial version of Jelastic, Public IPv4. With a single click you access to a number of cool new capabilities. One of the most important opportunity you get with this feature is the ability to work with your databases remotely and [...]
- The Jelastic Newsletter – May 23, 2012 May 23, 2012Java 7 adoption, Commercial releases in Europe and Russia and Software stack market share. . . The Jelastic newsletter is a weekly round-up of news, how-to’s and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week: Commercial Releases in Europe and Russia As we continue to grow and add partners, we are happy to say that, as of yes […]
- We are now available commercially in Europe! May 22, 2012In partnership with dogado, we are now available commercially in Germany The last few weeks have been hectic here at Jelastic! We launched commercially in the US with ServInt; then we did the same in Russian with Rusonyx; and now we have launched commercially in Europe with Germany. Now in Europe Our commercial release with [...]
- Software stacks market share: May 2012 May 21, 2012Every month we share stats on the usage and popularity of different software stacks within Jelastic PaaS with you. This month it’s even more interesting, because the scope of our stats has grown: we have a new hosting partner in Russia, Rusonyx. So, let’s check out the stats on databases, servers and JVMs for May and analyze the differences betwe […]
- Geek Project of the Day May 18, 2012Just in time for the weekend. Here is your geek project of the day. Because sometimes, a regular grill is not enough. We want one. Going to “borrow” a friend’s car and turn it into a grill.
- Jelastic announces the commercial availability of its Java cloud hosting platform with Rusonyx May 17, 2012Rusonyx’s Jelastic offering provides Cloud Java hosting with no lock-in or code changes required PALO ALTO, Ca. – Jelastic, the world’s first standards-based Platform-as-a-Service, today announced its commercial availability in Russia through its partner, Rusonyx, one of Russia’s leading web hosting service providers. Rusonyx is the exclusive provider […]
