• Home
  • Blog
  • Who We Are
  • Contact
  • Sponsors
Enterprise Irregulars
Smart Thinking for the Smart Enterprise
  • Featured Posts
  • Business
  • Technology / Software
  • Trends & Concepts
  • Startup Lessons

Google AppEngine

Amazon Web Services:  The De Facto Cloud API?

Amazon Web Services: The De Facto Cloud API?

By Bob Warfield on July 12, 2010

Read a couple of posts last week that coalesced some thoughts I’d been having into this one.  First was the fascinating rumor about a Google EC2 clone.  Hat tip to High Scalability Blog for putting me on to this one.  The second was James Urquhart’s musings about the desirability of the Amazon API’s as a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Amazon API, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services, aws, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Google AppEngine, Open source, platforms, standards | 2 Responses

SaaSGrid Express: irresponsible or indispensable?

SaaSGrid Express: irresponsible or indispensable?

By Phil Wainewright on June 2, 2010

SaaS purists like me ought to worry about a product like SaaSGrid Express, launched this week by .NET platform-as-a-service specialist Apprenda. Surely it’s the height of irresponsibility to disseminate a free, downloadable SaaS application platform? This gives the worst imaginable encouragement to hundreds if not thousands of unskilled, poorly resourced developers to set up the […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Apprenda, Google AppEngine, Platform as a service, SaaSGrid, salesforce.com, software as a service, VMware

The Java cloud? VMforce – Quick Analysis

The Java cloud? VMforce – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on April 28, 2010

Not exactly the “Java in the cloud” dream, but good looking nonetheless.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, Development Tools, enterprise software, force.com, Google AppEngine, ibm, Java, Java Virtual Machine, Quick Analysis, salesforce.com, vmforce, VMware | 1 Response

The Guardian: NoSQL EU. Don’t Melt The Database

The Guardian: NoSQL EU. Don’t Melt The Database

By James Governor on April 20, 2010

What follows is something like a live blog, based on comments from Matthew Wall and Simon Willison from The Guardian the NoSQL EU conference in London today. Wall kicked off the talk with a question about NoSQL: is it a good name for the phenomenon? He says not really, pointing out absurdity of calling SQLite […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged databases, Google AppEngine, Google Docs, Guardian, hadoop, mySQL, NoSQL, oracle, Redis NoSQL, Relational database, VMware | 3 Responses

feed mail facebook twitter linkedin

EI Tweets

My Tweets

Popular Posts

  • Strategy, Business Model, and Who's Your Customer
  • NetSuite Fights Hairball Epidemic with New Release and Edgy Marketing Campaign
  • Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center
  • A Memo regarding Corporate Social Media policies
  • Workday takes the Gloves Off?
  • Presentations That Don’t Suck
  • Is 'marketing' ready for digital transformation?
  • Beyond The Three V’s of Big Data – Viscosity and Virality

Archives

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Authors

  • Anshu Sharma
  • Bob Warfield
  • Brian Sommer
  • Dave Kellogg
  • David Terrar
  • Denis Pombriant
  • Dion Hinchcliffe
  • Esteban Kolsky
  • Evangelos Simoudis
  • James Governor
  • Jason Corsello
  • Jason M. Lemkin
  • Louis Columbus
  • Michael Krigsman
  • Naomi Bloom
  • Paul Greenberg
  • Phil Fersht
  • R "Ray" Wang
  • Raju Vegesna
  • Ross Mayfield
  • Sameer Patel
  • Sandy Kemsley
  • Susan Scrupski
  • Thomas Otter
  • Tom Raftery
  • Vijay Vijayasankar
  • Vinnie Mirchandani
  • Zoli Erdos