EMC has named John Roese, nicked from Huawei, as CTO.
He replaces Jeff Nick, who has moved over in a similar capacity working with chief strategist Paul Maritz, the former CEO of VMware, who’s got a mystery job at VMware’s parent company EMC. Maritz is said to be focused on Big Data and emerging applications initiatives.
Roese was general manager of Huawei’s North American R&D organization and the executive leader of its Enterprise Global Competency Center, which provides enterprise technology innovation and incubation as well as sales, marketing and operations support for Huawei’s enterprise field sales and marketing teams worldwide.
Before Huawei, he was CTO of Nortel, with functional responsibility for an R&D staff of 12,000 and an annual budget of $1.7 billion.
Cloud Computing: SoftLayer Catalyst Program Fuels Startups
SoftLayer Technologies is helping start-ups like MODX, SpotRight Inc. and Epic Playground build a solid foundation for success with its Catalyst Startup Program. Through this unique incubator program, SoftLayer provides free infrastructure and hosting services, as well as strategic product, market and operating advice from its senior-level employees. After a year in the Catalyst program, these entrepreneurs will have gained a competitive edge and be well positioned with strong, differentiated offerings.
“As a former startup ourselves, we are keenly aware of what it takes to transform an idea into a profitable business. While free office space and IT infrastructure services are of great benefit to new companies, we believe that a true incubator program should provide even more,” said George Karidis, chief strategy officer at SoftLayer. “Our Catalyst program also enables participants to get advice from our in-house experts, who help them validate business models, share ideas about marketing strategy and make key introductions to potential partners and investors. MODX, SpotRight and Epic Playground are among the more than 250 Catalyst participants that are capitalizing on our unique mix of mentorship and the infrastructure needed to achieve success.”
Wildcard Subdomains in Windows Azure
Want to support my.fancy.app.can.serve.up.anything.mybrand.com in your Windows Azure application? Just use wildcard CNAMEs and a little code glue!
I was meeting with a small company today that has developed a SaaS solution around task and project management. It’s a very cool application, and as is the fashion these days, uses subdomains to determine the end user’s company as requests come to the browser. So, if I were to sign up for the application, my home url would be http://adamhoffman.getdonedone.com, whereas if you signed up (and had the unlikely name of Bill Ion), your home page would be http://billion.getdonedone.com. This is handled in ASP.NET application code on their Win2K8 servers hosted at Rackspace. The question quickly became “hey, we can do something similar in Azure, right?”
The answer is yes, and no, and yes. Let me explain.
Insightly Gets $3 Million to Take SMB CRM Apps to More Platforms
Insightly, a provider of customer relationship management (CRM) software for small businesses, today announced it has completed a $3 million financing round led by Emergence Capital Partners. Insightly, which is ranked as the number one customer management application in the Google Apps marketplace, is using this financing to expand its service outside of the Google Apps platform and make it available to all small businesses starting today.
“Small businesses around the world want CRM software that is easy to use, doesn’t require hours of training, and fits their budget. Insightly’s simple user interface and freemium pricing model meets their needs perfectly,” said Anthony Smith, CEO of Insightly. “We’ve seen massive growth in the past two years by meeting this demand, and Emergence’s investment will allow us to further accelerate this growth and continue to enhance our users’ experience.”
Insightly’s intuitive cloud-based CRM software meets the needs of small businesses and allows users to easily keep track of customer interactions and manage leads, proposals, opportunities, projects and files from any device, at any time. Insightly can be accessed via a web browser from any PC, laptop, smartphone or tablet to keep business moving forward, both in office and on-the-go
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Four Degrees of Separation from SaaS
Four companies moving to SaaS, four different challenges, four different markets and four different solutions.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy, will provide four separate, real case studies detailing how these SaaS companies met the challenges.
Moving to SaaS?
Then you’re going to have to rewrite your software whether you want to or not. How do you manage the process without driving your company’s collective brain insane? We’ll show you how one SaaS company handled it.
Analyzing the costs and risks of transitioning
If you decided to build your new system from scratch, you’re the main technology provider. Are you up to the task? Can you get it done in a timely fashion? Go the outsource and third-party component route and you’re now orchestrating an effort you don’t totally control. Where are the main risks? Our case study will show you how they reduced these risks.
Cloud Computing: Oracle to Compete with Amazon
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, a late convert to the cloud, formally announced the coming of an Oracle Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud to compete primarily with Amazon Web Services.
The announcement was made during his keynote Sunday at Oracle OpenWorld. Larry, being Larry, and this is so Larry, actually let the cat out of the bag a couple of weeks ago during the company’s conference call with Wall Street when it reported its numbers.
One little detail Larry didn’t mention before, the new cloud is gonna be based on Oracle’s own eight-core Xeon-based InfiniBand-linked Exa- hardware, its Exadata, Exalogic and Exalytics machines including a new Exadata database machine that houses enough built-in memory that users won’t need external storage so kiss off, EMC and Hitachi.
Infographic: The Rise of Women in Tech
A post and infographic in today’s MBAonline says, “It’s time for the old adage that women neither like nor do well in math and science be put to rest …”
Cloud Expo: Cloud Surveillance: The Next Big Cloud (R)evolution?
Will cloud surveillance be the next big cloud revolution or is it just the inevitable evolution of the way ‘the cloud’ evolves?
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Rishi Lodhia, CEO & Founder of CameraManager.com, will elaborate on the enormous business potential behind cloud surveillance. The session will train delegates on the potential business architectures that cloud surveillance encompasses and how these business architectures could be translated into real business opportunities for your own business.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Taking Your App Delivery Strategy to the Cloud
The cloud is changing the way enterprises consume IT infrastructure and applications. Networks and application deployment strategies are being re-architected to manage an increasingly hybrid network where storage, utility compute and applications are being designed to move seamlessly across private and public cloud infrastructures.
In his Lunchtime Focus Keynote at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Todd Paoletti, Vice President of Product Management at Akamai, will discuss the trends, new products and roadmap to help increase cloud adoption and business agility.
New SpringBoard 6.0 Offers Greater Project Management Software Access and Control
LoadSpring Solutions has released SpringBoard Version 6.0, a newly-enhanced hosting portal.
SpringBoard allows secure access to—and control of—Project Management software and data, from any computer worldwide.
SpringBoard 6.0 preserves the same intuitive interface used globally by more than 2,000 enterprise organizations, but now offers new features and tools geared to add functionality, speed and efficiency.
SpringBoard 6.0 goes live October 6th and is designed for greater enterprise access and data control while saving effort, time and capital.
In Version 6.0, SpringBoard allows users to tap the power of the cloud, with such enhancements as:
- Unified Access with Location Awareness. This feature assures
fast global access and data integrity. - BIM hosting. BIM software is now available in a hosted model
without performance issues. Users now truly have a single secure
portal for all their Project Management applications. - Instant access to LoadSpring Academy 2.0, now with student
tracking and quiz reporting, leading to added software compliance,
acceptance and usage. - SmartSupport—LoadSpring’s automated issue resolution system is
designed to find answers even before the user finishes asking the
question. Quick self-fixes are available any time, or users can call
LoadSpring directly for 1-on-1 contact. - Set Application roles during provisioning. Now administrators
can assign P6r8 application roles at the same time they set-up new
users all from 1 interface. - Auto Performance Indicators. SpringBoard now lets users see
real-time connection speeds and SpringBoard performance at a glance
allowing them to see if an issue exists. - Self-registration option aids administrators by letting each
user self-register to SpringBoard.
