Cloud Computing constitutes 3% of revenues for Infosys and the IT giant is now pushing CII to come up with regulatory framework on Cloud Computing in India. “CII is putting together a draft paper on opportunities in cloud computing and what should
Continue reading... June 29, 2011
VMware Launches vFabric 5, an Integrated Application Platform for Virtual and Cloud Environments
VMware today announced VMware vFabric™ 5, an integrated application platform for virtual and cloud environments. Combining the Spring development framework for Java and the latest generation of vFabric application services, vFabric 5 will provide the core application platform for building, deploying and running modern applications. vFabric 5 introduces for the first time a flexible packaging [...]
Continue reading... June 28, 2011
Microsoft Rolls Out Office 365 – A Wolf Wears Sheep’s Cloth?
Microsoft has announced the launch of Office 365, its online office suite of products that provides easy-to-use, cloud-based management tools in a single location. Essentially, Office365 the online version of office suite that integrates very well with desktop Office products (and is taking Google Enterprise suite head-on). Given that Microsoft has the highest reach among [...]
Continue reading... June 28, 2011
Top Cloud Providers In India
As per a study by CIO Research Center, Microsoft is the top cloud provider in India followed by Amazon, IBM, Google, and Salesforce. Cloud Computing is no longer considered “hype” by most CIOs. Almost 80% of CIOs believe that it will be an important constituent of their IT strategy within the next one year. More [...]
Continue reading... June 28, 2011
Take The Cloudnomy Survey [And Get a Free Book On Cloud Computing]
Take this survey on Cloudnomy that will help us better understand what startups need from cloud providers. As you are aware, Cloud Computing is one of the hot topics getting discussed at various forums. Given that this technology is highly relevant to start-ups, we thought doing a formal survey with the start-up community would be [...]
Continue reading... June 22, 2011
Cloud Computing in India
Welcome to Cloudnomy – India’s most authoritative site (we will, eventually) on Cloud Computing and related verticals.
Continue reading... May 12, 2011
IBM Launches Virtual Desktop in India Targeted Towards SMBs [Cloud Computing]
IBM has launched Virtual Desktop in India that offers anytime/anywhere access to one’s personal desktop via multiple devices (thin clients/mobile/laptop/iPad etc). IBM will offer its desktop via ZSL and Ingram Micro, its channel partners in India. IBM’s virtualization technology combines virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology using Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment (VERDE), technology relicensed from [...]
Continue reading... April 12, 2011
Cloud Computing Platforms Compared [Amazon web services v/s Force.com v/s Google app engine]
We earlier shared the evolution of Cloud Computing and here is a guest article on comparison of three cloud platforms, i.e. AWS vs. Force vs. Google App Engine. The article gives data points that will enable you to select a platform before starting a small project ‘on the cloud’ in your company. For comparison purpose, [...]
Continue reading... April 11, 2011
Of Cloud Music And the Hoopla About Amazon, Google and Apple Service
Amazon launched its Cloud Drive music locker service that will let you upload your music to Amazon’s cloud and stream it to multiple devices ( currently only available in the U.S ). What exactly does the service offer?? What does this mean for consumers?? How does anyone benefit from this ( considering someone does )?? What does the future of media consumption look like?? What are competitors going to do about it?? And what are the legal implications of this move by Amazon??
Continue reading... March 7, 2011
The Cloud Computing Market in India–High Time We Bring Legal Regulations in Place?
The Cloud Computing market in India is growing at a phenomenal rate and is expected to touch a billion USD by 2015. While this is a great news for startups and SMBs, most of the CIOs are still stuck over the lack of legal framework regarding Cloud Computing in India. Legal Frameworks [Cloud Services] There [...]
Continue reading... February 25, 2011
Google Launches Cloud Connect Plugin- Sync Microsoft Office Documents with Google Apps Account
Google has made the Cloud Connect plugin available to all Microsoft Office users and the tool lets you take the most important step in transitioning from desktop to cloud – sync MS office files with your Google apps account. Lately, most of my work related documents are stored in the cloud, though I use desktop [...]
Continue reading... February 24, 2011
Google starts Google Apps certification for IT professionals–Here is What You Need to Know
Google has enjoyed only moderate success so far in the enterprise services game till now, the reason being the already popular services offered by its rivals, mainly Microsoft. The search giant is steadily making progress in this field and its Google Apps platform has been gaining popularity as the number of enterprise and educational institutes [...]
Continue reading... February 16, 2011
TCS Launches iON, The Nano For SMBs [Cloud Computing]
TCS is eyeing a billion dollar revenues (over 5 years) from iON service, which currently has 135 customers. iON runs on pay-per-use model (Perpetual beta model) and plans to cover all solutions needed to run daily operations of SMB.
Continue reading... January 7, 2011
Salesforce.com Acquires Dimdim
Salesforce has acquired Dimdim for approximately $31 million in cash. Founded in 2007, Dimdim has created critical real-time communication technologies such as presence, messaging and screen sharing. With the acquisition, salesforce.com gains Dimdim’s real-time communication technologies, along with a team of world-class developers experienced in building cloud-based collaboration services. Salesforce.com will use the acquisition to [...]
Continue reading... January 6, 2011
Evolution of the Cloud – Part 1 [SaaS]
Two and a half years ago at the Web 2.0 conference, I and a few market observers were asked what cloud computing was all about. Back then, the concept of cloud computing was just beginning to gain mindshare with valley-based startups but many weren’t sure what it really was and what it meant to consumers [...]
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