An Israeli Cloud on Israeli Gas, in the Sea
an angle on Israeli cloud computing Israeli Hi-Tech faces many challenges : The Shekel\Dollar rate, the tough IPO market , the rise of India and China, the disappearance of many VC’s and the move from...
View ArticleCommodity Clouds? You must be kidding
A commodity is a good for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. Commodities are substances that come out of the earth and maintain roughly a...
View ArticleDoes SLA really mean anything?
I believe most SLA’s (Service Level Agreements) are meaningless. In the world of Software as a Service and cloud computing it has become a very popular topic, but the reality is very different from...
View ArticleCommodity Clouds, IAAS and PAAS – Part II
In the first post we looked at some common mistakes resulting in premature “Commoditization” declarations. In this post we would look at IAAS and PAAS in more detail. In software, it is rare to have...
View ArticleNew Version Every Other Week for Three Years?
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. E. B. White US author & humorist (1899 – 1985) Releasing...
View ArticleNew Version Every Other Week – Part II
In part one I covered some principles that allow us to sustain a rate of a new version every two weeks. In this post I’ll discuss some of the customer facing challenges and how to overcome them....
View ArticleFresh Look – Dozen Interesting Israeli Start-Ups
Fresh Paint Balfour Street Tel Aviv I have assembled a pseudo-arbitrary list of interesting Israeli start-ups. These are mostly companies whose product I got to try and whose team I met. Some bias to...
View ArticleAre all the software products created in just five Countries?
It seems that software products are only created in very few countries around the world : United States, Israel , United Kingdom , Canada and Texas . There are 196 countries in the world, but most seem...
View ArticleCloud Computing in the Year 2000
I came across my old unborn thesis proposal from the year 2000. The gist of the thesis was to evaluate the economical value of cloud computing However, the proposal was rejected by my Professor as...
View ArticleGoogle Music – Quick Review
Sign up and activation was extremely easy few clicks away from Google Plus and it’s done (did not do credit card part yet ) I tried a hard Artist to start with “The Only Ones” a fun a little known...
View ArticlePublic Cloud is Better than On-Premise and Netflix vs Zynga proves it
There is a common myth that for super large scale companies it makes sense to build their own data center instead of using a public cloud. In many cases I believe this is exactly the opposite. For many...
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