The people behind CloudAve live and breathe cloud computing - they've been evangelists for it over the last few years and came together to form CloudAve. Quite simply CloudAve seeks to be the pre-eminent location for commentary and analysis on all things relating to Cloud computing and SaaS.
Rather than yet another consumer Web 2.0 love-fest, CloudAve wishes to differentiate itself by its insightful analysis, it's business-centric focus and its neutrality and independence. On CloudAve you can expect to read about;
- General commentary on work related trends
- Tips and Tricks for users
- Reviews of different work related applications
- Detailed analysis of releases
- Strategies to increase the uptake of SaaS
Who is behind CloudAve ?
Zoli Erdos, Editor
Zoli is a long-time Software Industry Observer & Blogger, Startup Advisor focusing on Business Applications, Collaboration, SaaS. He is also Editor of Enterprise Irregulars and Program Chair of SVASE (Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs).
In his "Life 1.0" he spent 15 years immersed in the business of Enterprise Software, in management positions with SAP, IBM, Deloitte, KPMG and the like.
Today his association with the enterprise world is mostly through the Enterprise Irregulars, a diverse group of practitioners, consultants, investors, journalists, analysts and full time bloggers who share a common passion - enterprise technology and its application to business in the 21st century. Admittedly Zoli's qualification as member of the EI is more on the irregular than on the enterprise side.
Zoli lives in the San Francisco Bay area. His personal blog is here.
Krishnan Subramanian
Krishnan Subramanian is an analyst, consultant, prolific blogger and entrepreneur specializing in cloud computing and open source. He is part of the management team in two companies in India and sits on the board of a few privately owned companies. He also advises startups on strategic technological issues and helps them fine-tune their vision.
Krishnan sees a convergence of open source, cloud computing, semantic technologies and social computing. His research is focused on analyzing the trends leading to this vision and establishing a framework to see this vision come true. This has lead Krishnan to do significant research on cloud platforms and applications interoperability, open cloud frameworks, role of open source in cloud computing, etc..
Krishnan’s disclosure statement is available here. Appointments to talk with Krishnan can be made here. Additional information about Krishnan can be found here.
Joining Zoli and Krish are a dynamically growing team of guest authors, currently:
CloudAve also welcomes ad-hoc contributions from guest authors, please feel free to contact us if you feel you have something valuable to add to the conversation!
What, No ads?
CloudAve was founded with the intention of being Ad free. We believe advertising on a website is distracting, reduces the impact of the core message, and creates conflicts around neutrality and independence. In order to being a high quality offering to our readership, we have obtained sponsorship from Zoho who is generously covering the cost of bringing CloudAve to the world.
So is this a Zoho blog ?
NO - The editors retain complete editorial independence and are free to write about whomever and whatever they wish. We'll let our words talk for us but we have, as a founding touchstone, the concepts of neutrality, independence and integrity.
That said we have built the blog - both the front-end platform and the back-end applications we use to collaborate, using Zoho products. This is our one and only gesture to our sponsor and also a proof-of-concept test for several SaaS tools work together.
Creative Commons Licence
Being ad-free means we don't depend on pageviews - in fact we'd like our content to reach everyone in every possible form and media. So much so, that we decided to make all our content available under a Creative Commons Licence.
Of course there are some provisos that goes along with this - bad Karma to anyone who uses our content and doesn't say thanks (or link back anyway) and seriously bad Karma to commercial usage of our material. So play nicely - read, enjoy and use - just do so within the spirit of our licence.
Attribution to http://www.cloudave.com