Cloud computing, buzz-word du-jour
The buzzword du-jour in the current economic crash of 2008 is “Cloud Computing”. There are several interesting question around cloud computing – why now, how are people building it, what are people doing with it and what about security. 1) Why now? Back in 2001 after the dot com crash, On-demand / SaaS started picking […]
EMC Atmos – cloud storage
I had heard about this EMC startup but didn’t know much about what they really do. My friend Arik Blum from HP takes the time to send interesting technology updates to his own private distribution list. Atmos is COS “cloud optimised storage”, with web services such as SOAP and REST for access. Cloud Optimized Storage(COS) […]
Host your own SaaS with Open Source – the potential of Mosso
Show me a profitable business application-as-a-Service (SaaS) company. There is a lot of trade talk about the success of Salesforce.com. Here is a company with a $3.2BN market cap as of Oct 26, 2008 currently trading at 24 down from 72, 5 months ago. In 2007 – SF.com posted a net income of $480K on […]
