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Cloud Computing Expo - Day 2

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 21, 2008

Here are my notes from the second day of SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo (Day 1 notes here):
Day 2 started with a keynote by Amazon’s CTO - Dr. Werner Vogels. Werner is an amazing speaker, and his enthusiasm really gave a kick-start to the whole day. I would summarize his presentation as: “Yep, we invented cloud [...]

Microsoft is producing so much effort in the SaaS space recently that they can get one easily confused. Quickly: can you tell the difference between Microsoft Exchange Online, Exchange Labs, Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft Live@edu, and Exchange Hosted Services?
Fear not. This post will make the distinction crystal clear!
First of all: All of them except Exchange [...]

Google ramps up APIs

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 3, 2008

Folks at Google have released another set of APIs for Google Apps and like the previous drop in September this one is for administrative tasks.
This is actually a big deal deal because unlike earlier user-oriented APIs these give you programmatic administrative access to all users’ data and settings.
Here’s the key difference in what we had [...]

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 for each [...]

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 the [...]

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 like the [...]

Google Apps failure - someone’s opportunity

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 17, 2008

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 prolonged, ongoing [...]

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 the [...]

SaaS for Compliance?

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 8, 2008

Compliance is often a concern when considering SaaS/Cloud solutions - after all in a sense you are loosing control over your data as it goes into the someone else’s datacenter.
Yesterday Google announced a few (mostly pricing) changes to their eDiscovery product. The service is basically an email archive built on top of their Postini (anti-spam/anti-virus) [...]

How many Google Apps users are there?

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 3, 2008

I’ve tried to search through all the public information out there to find out how many people are actually using Google’s productivity suite, how many of them are in businesses, and how many are actually paying for the service.
Total number
In August Eric Zeman from the InformationWeek reported the figure of 10 million users. Way [...]


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