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Cloud Service for Local SharePoint Insight

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 27, 2010

A new (free!) service became publicly available on Quest OnDemand – Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint Reports. This is a great free service which provides some pretty neat reports on your intranet SharePoint environment. You go to the site and it launches a nice Silverlight client. Then all you need to do is provide a [...]

Case-Study on Secure SaaS

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 15, 2010

Security and data protection are key concerns for any cloud solution. I truly believe that this is also one aspect that you cannot just improve over time. No matter how agile you are security needs to be there by design. Unfortunately most cloud vendors/SaaS-providers still don’t tell enough about the way they protect customer data [...]

Details on Quest OnDemand

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 8, 2010

Ben Riga posted a video recording with a fairly detailed discussion we had at Microsoft PDC about Quest OnDemand (Quest’s Systems Management as a Service offering): In that discussion we have covered quite a few topic which I hope you will find interesting: What is Systems Management as a Service and how it is different [...]

Windows 7 – Microsoft’s First Step to the Cloud

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 13, 2009

Pundits talking about how Windows 7 is all about Microsoft competing against Apple, recovering with Vista consumer adoption disaster, or getting people off of XP, are missing one other – extremely important – part of the Windows 7 story. Windows 7 and its server counterpart – Windows Server 2008 R2 – are actually the first [...]

Quest Software and the Clouds

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 15, 2009

It’s probably about time for me to provide a quick overview of what we at Quest Software are doing in the cloud computing area. There are two main “cloud” directions for us: Using the cloud for our own offerings. Enabling public and private clouds. 1. Using Clouds Using Cloud means providing our products as a [...]

SaaS growing fast in Asia/Pacific

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 1, 2009

You’d think that after all the news of China blocking Google and other web sites Software-as-a-Service and cloud computing would be the worst software delivery model you would imagine? Customer survey on SaaS Gartner conducted in November 2008 has shown that Asia/Pacific region is getting ahead of North America and Europe in SaaS adoption. Their [...]

A VM running in EC2 is not SaaS

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 23, 2009

Just because you have software packaged as a virtual machine and running in Amazon EC2 does not mean you have a “cloud” offering. As easy as it sounds in most cases when a vendor claims they have their software available as a service/cloud offering – it is just that: a virtual machine image (such as [...]

Government adoption of cloud growing

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 17, 2009

That’s what Gartner’s Andrea Di Maiofound in his recent report: “Government in the Cloud: Much More Than Computing“. This might surprise initially – after all Forrester just told us that public sector was lagging in the cloud computing adoption rush. However, Andrea builds up a pretty impressive case of why cloud trend is inevitable for [...]

My TechEd Sessions

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 7, 2009

If you are at Microsoft TechEd next week there will be a few sessions I will be giving there: Birds-of-a-Feather,”Going to the Cloud: Are We Crazy?” Dmitry Sotnikov, 4:30 p.m. Tuesday May 12, room 501A – this one is IT-oriented discussion of risks and benefits of putting your IT systems into the cloud. PowerShell Ask [...]

IDC: System Management going SaaS

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 15, 2009

“Worldwide System Management SaaS 2009 Vendor Analysis: Economic Crisis Creates Opportunities” is an excellent recent report by IDC. Software as a Service started in consumer web, and then expanded into end-user-oriented business and collaboration sites (Salesforce.com, Google Apps). The question is whether the model can go from this to administrative tools so IT people can [...]


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  • The Jelastic Spotlight May 25, 2012
    We 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, 2012
    Recently, 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, 2012
    Java 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, 2012
    In 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, 2012
    Every 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, 2012
    Just 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, 2012
    Rusonyx’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 […]

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