Tweet As mentioned earlier, and in a pair of wonderful send-offs from Stephen and James, today is my last day at RedMonk. Come Monday, I’ll be in a new job at Dell, a new adventure that I’m looking forward to. I wanted to thank RedMonk and all of you, in the RedMonk Community again for [...]
Tweet In this edition of What’s In Your Stack? we find out how a cloud-bound application is developed and architected. The notes on how Redis is used in the architecture are especially interesting: Who are you? I built and run Listening Room, a website for listening to music for other people. It was one of [...]
Tweet In this edition of What’s In Your Stack? we hear how one company is delivering its service on Microsoft Windows Azure: Who are you? Metanga is MetraTech’s multi-tenant, PCI compliant, SaaS billing solution designed to help ISVs monetize customer and partner relationships that come about as they move to SaaS models. MetraTech was founded [...]
Tweet John has been playing with Cloud Foundry a lot of late, so we go over that and PaaSes in general. Download the episode directly right here, subscribe to the feed in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here: Show Notes Cloud [...]
Tweet Ed (@egoodwintx) and I get together to talk about social networking differentiation with G+ and Facebook and the current wave of tech IPOs. Listen right here: In addition to clicking play above, you can download the episode directly or subscribe to the Back of the Envelope podcast feed (in iTunes or wherever) to have [...]
Tweet As Stephen posted earlier this afternoon, I’ll be leaving RedMonk at the end of next week. Working with RedMonk has been easily the best job I’ve had: the trust and mentoring James and Stephen have given me over the years has been more than I could have imagined, and the actual work has been [...]
Tweet RedMonk client Spiceworks released a new feature today, an RFQ system that its community can use to shop around for IT assets – you know, computers, software, and such. As ever with Spiceworks, they’re trying to improve the day-to-day of their user base, here by automating a process that would otherwise be very time [...]
Tweet Citrix announced the acquisition of Cloud.com this morning hoping to flesh out its long-running cloud road-map. This Brief Note covers what this means for Citrix and provides some background. Summary There’s some clear motivations for Citrix: Filling whitespace – Citrix has long spoken about cloud computing, but they’ve yet to make a big splash [...]
Tweet In this edition of What’s in Your Stack?, I ask the proprietor of Liquid Labs, Zane Rockenbaugh, how he runs his small, 3 person software development shop focused on client-driven project: Who are you? Liquid Labs is a small development and consulting company. Most of our business comes from soup-to-nuts, bespoke web development for [...]
Tweet I recently talked with Steve Wexler in email for a story on Cloud.com where he asked for my overall take on the company. Here’s the Press Pass of what I replied, in full: Cloud.com has a few things going for it: based on their momentum, their software seems to work, which is saying a [...]
