Tim Madewell is VP of operations at Innotas, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of project portfolio management. Innotas addresses issues of visibility, access control, compliance and performance for enterprise customers and hybrid apps to differentiate its service and provide competitive advantage. He recently sat down with us to discuss how Sonoa helps him with security, [...]
Had a great conversation earlier this week with Bob Scheier. He’s currently writing a series on cloud computing for InfoWorld – his piece from last week about CTOs managing the cloud was really thought provoking and on-target for what we’ve been talking about here on Edge of the Cloud.
From the article: “Not all compute clouds [...]
Michael Richardson, CTO at a company called SelectMinds, is doing some innovative things in the enterprise social computing space today. He and I fleshed out some thoughts on this topic in a piece that was published today in ZDNet. We discuss how social computing can help your company innovate and why you should jump in. [...]
I recently sat down with my friend Aaron Smith to get his thoughts on the business benefits of APIs. You can read more of Aaron’s thoughts on APIs here.
What do you see as the business benefits of APIs?
Just like every business has its own processes and revenue models, not all will benefit from APIs in [...]
Greg Brail from Sonoa does a great job in discussing the importance of cloud services in his latest blog post here. He talks about the elastic capabilities of cloud vs. Web services and why they’re good for business.
Here at Sonoa we are in the API business – helping companies open and consume. Today is an API Revolution of sorts. So, the question we sometimes encounter is what’s an API and why should your company have one?
So why do you need an API? For one thing, everyone else is diving into the API [...]
I recently wrote a post for ebizQ on APIs as the key to cloud convergence, which discusses the convergence of two cloud models cropping up today – both the “outside-in” revenue and “inside-out” cost views from the cloud. More detail in the ebizQ piece.
When consuming or producing cloud services from the enterprise point of view, [...]
Yes, we want open cloud standards. They are good for vendors and more importantly, they great for customers. I agree with Daryl Plummer’s take on the recently announced Open Cloud Manifesto. He holds a similar view on this topic – which is that open cloud standards need to focus on the customer.
History has shown us [...]
