Enterprises of every size are moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud. Maintaining operational awareness is difficult enough within a single cloud…
Read MoreWhen a web application gets popular enough, features matter less and the underlying ecosystem matters more. There’s a tipping point at which…
Read MoreWith every birthday reminder, bill confirmation, new friend, direct message, password recovery, and mailing list, the content of our inboxes becomes less and less a means of communication and more and more a record of all we do online. But if inboxes don't fundamentally change in order to adapt to their new role as the keeper of myriad transactions across the entire web, they'll be obsolete.…
Read MoreBack in the desktop software era, magazines ran software reviews in which the side-by-side comparisons of features took up an entire page. Buyers used these reviews to shortlist vendors, trying to anticipate which features they'd need over the next five years. Typically, the software with the most features won. Feature-itis ruled. But with software as a service, the focus has become whether the tool is good enough on day one and how well it will adapt over time. Indeed, in order to evaluate SaaS, those page-long feature comparisons can be whittled down to just seven critical questions.…
Read MoreElastra today unveiled an updated cloud strategy that aims to tackle one of the biggest challenges of cloud computing: How to move…
Read MoreWhen Google (s GOOG) first released App Engine as a “Preview Release” last April, developers had relatively little computing power. Only a…
Read MoreMicrosoft (s msft) is hoping people will use Photosynth to document the inauguration. In partnership with CNN, they’re asking people to upload…
Read MoreCustomer relationship management giant Salesforce.com (s crm) just gobsmacked the fledgling community management industry with its launch of a customer support service…
Read MoreIdenti.ca’s plans to build an open-source alternative to Twitter got a vote of confidence this week with an investment from the VCs…
Read MoreJoyent today announced it has agreed to acquire Reasonably Smart, a fledgling cloud startup based on JavaScript and Git, for an undisclosed…
Read MoreUntil now, Google’s (s goog) App Engine has been a great playground for coders: Everyone gets a daily quota of computing resources…
Read MoreAre clouds fundamentally less secure? A story today in the Guardian lists cloud security as one of the things we’ll worry about…
Read MoreDespite decades of effort, troubleshooting applications is still hard. ExtraHop, which comes out of stealth today with the launch of its Application…
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