While "Cloud" is the most overused/overloaded word in the industry, one key attribute stands out consistently... The single most key tenets of Cloud is "self-service". This has been the biggest driver of cloud adoption and will continue to drive the products & requirements. If there is any product that is not self-service, but is intended only to be used by administrators - folks, reconsider your products.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
Multi-user profiles in tablets & freetime support for kids!
Great job Amazon! You are the first tablet maker to allow multi-user profiles on the same device. This is a common item on any personal computer, as common as the buttons on a shirt. Happy to see this 'new feature' on Kindle Fire. We can now store user's own
settings, data, applications and perhaps even special restrictions.
Freetime is another wanted setting to allow specific usage hours for the kids - otherwise, it has become very uncontrolled. Finally someone is paying attention to a common problem.
Freetime is another wanted setting to allow specific usage hours for the kids - otherwise, it has become very uncontrolled. Finally someone is paying attention to a common problem.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
PaaS - private and public modes
We haven't heard of Private PaaS or Public PaaS (or hybrid!) but the industry is clearly moving in multiple directions here if you observed App Engine, Azure, Force.com, Heroku, Engine Yard, ActiveState, AppFog, Tier 3, Uhuru Software, PaaS.io or CloudFoundry.com.
VMware is clearly pitching for private PaaS within enterprises to deploy internal applications. This would enterprises to have a common PaaS platform that results in 'standardization' and 'governance'. While the productivity boost is questionable since any PaaS would need a mindset change in the developer community and PaaS enforces thinking in one-way.
It is interesting to see so many new PaaS platforms (such as AppFog) as new-entrants in the market (some based on CloudFoundry), and others with the message of running PaaS across infrastructure providers. If I am anyway going to be on PaaS - why worry about IaaS flexibility - I am locked in at the usage layer itself.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Oracle Throws in the Towel on VMware Licensing
... Oracle has maintained that all servers in a cluster must be licensed if
even a single VM on any server in the cluster is running Oracle
software. VMware has officially disagreed with this statement in their white paper on Oracle Licensing and Support.
But the opposing view by Oracle has been a serious deterrent to
adoption of VMware virtualization of Oracle servers. No longer.
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