Xenia von Wedel

There are two categories of cloud-based enterprise offerings: Hardware platforms, such as Amazon EC2 or EMC Software services, such as SAP or Jahia. Hardware cloud offerings get richer by the day, with highly granular on-demand computing resources and virtually unlimited scaling capabilities. The latter is mainly due to the recent advances in virtualization, and standardized interoperability protocols within middleware components. Cloud-based software services have been slow to adapt their offerings and licenses to this new hardware flexibility. Many why Enterprise software providers claim their products are "cloud-ready", yet shy away from fully embracing new cloud computing business possibilities. SAP's Leo Apotheker lamented: "There are certain things that you cannot run in the cloud because the cloud would collapse. It's simple. Don't believe that any utility comp... (more)

Umoo Opens Private Beta to Launch Social Gaming Tournaments

Web 2.0 Journal Not many people have the fun job to deal with technology startups and play online gaming during work time. Fortunately, I am one of the few lucky ones. As I was heavily testing the new Umoo Social tournaments I was forced to compete with my entire office. I set up tournaments with my step dad in Germany and even my mother in law who usually only plays Mahjong or Scrabble online. I can tell you feel for me, having a blast while I am on the clock. Today is finally the day that Umoo tournaments is coming out of private beta and into the public arena. I can now set up... (more)

White Paper Alert: How to Deliver Peak Performance to Meet Massive Web Content Delivery Demands

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