John Panagulias

John Panagulias
Co-founder, Editor in Chief

John Panagulias oversees the strategy and development of Cloud.KendallSquare.com, a web site and vendor directory focused on cloud computing. He is also the Editor-in-Chief for the site and leads the sales and marketing efforts. He plays a central role with the Kendall Square team on web site design and overall business direction.

Kendall Square is an online media and web design and publishing company serving enterprise, mid-sized and small businesses. The cloud computing site is the initial property of Kendall Square and will be followed by additional gateways, or channels, for virtualization, security and networking.

Prior to Kendall Square, John spent nearly twenty years in strategic partnership, sales management and marketing roles across the high tech, telecommunications and transportation industries. He rode the dot.com wave while at Sun Microsytems and beyond. As an alliance manager, business development director and global marketing manager he was involved in increasingly more strategic partnerships culminating with key roles in Sun's alliances with PeopleSoft and SAP.

John is based in San Francisco. While not reading, writing or talking about the tech industry you may find him behind the viewfinder of his camera or out in the hills on his bike doing his best impression of Lance. He earned an MBA from the University of San Francisco and a BS from Syracuse University.

Get in touch with John: john.panagulias@kendallsquare.com

Google Ups the Ante with App Engine for Business and VMware Alliance

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Google is upping the ante in its push for cloud computing dominance as it focuses on the enterprise with a couple of interesting announcements at the start of Google I/O, its annual developer conference in San Francisco. The company launched App Engine for Business, priced at $8/user/month and a new alliance with VMware that will center around cloud portability and reducing vendor lock-in.

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CA Rolls Out New Cloud Management Suite

Monday, May 17, 2010

CA Technologies unveiled its cloud computing strategy as it announced a new suite of cloud management solutions during the CA World Conference in Las Vegas. Called the CA Cloud-Connected Management Suite it is designed to handle what the company calls the "IT supply chain" or the combination of internal and external resources that IT uses to deliver applications and services to end-users.

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SAP Buys Sybase to Fulfill Mobile Strategy. Is it Enough? And What About the Cloud?

Friday, May 14, 2010

SAP said it will acquire database vendor Sybase for $5.8 billion, paying a 45% premium over the stock price of its target. SAP thinks the premium is warranted because it will help it fulfill part of its "three pillar strategy of on-premise, on-demand, and on-device software" as it looks to Sybase to deliver on their mobile enterprise strategy. But many analysts questioned the premise of SAP's decision, especially give the huge price tag and the shifting tide of towards cloud-based computing.

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Microsoft Rolls Out Cloud-Based Versions of Office and SharePoint

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

NEW YORK — May 12, 2010 — Today, Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, as well as Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010, for business customers worldwide. More than 90 million businesses can now deploy the 2010 suite of products, and customers can expect to see significant productivity gains and greater return on their software investments.

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InMage Builds On Core Strengths to Help Customers Leverage Cloudbursting

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Cloud computing is opening doors for traditional software companies in ways some people might not expect. Sometimes it’s not about how to transition on-premise software to software as a service (SaaS), which has its own inherent issues for those contemplating the move. Rather, it’s about thinking how a given piece of software might work in a cloud computing environment. In fact, there is some software that has been designed to solve a particular set of needs in a traditional data center environment that can cross-over and work well in a cloud computing environment.

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VMware Adds Another Piece To Their Cloud Arsenal

Thursday, May 6, 2010

VMware's SpringSource division will acquire GemStone Systems, a maker of in-memory database-caching software that enables the development, deployment and management of cloud-centric applications. The acquisition follows on the heels of the recent deal for Rabbit Technologies, as well as, VMware's decision to grab SpringSource itself in last year. These moves represent an awareness that one of the keys to greater cloud computing adoption lies in the ability to manage cloud-centric applications across a distributed environment in a secure, highly scalable manner.

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SuccessFactors Buys CubeTree, Enters Enterprise Social Networking

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

SuccessFactors, a provider on-demand performance management software, will buy enterprise collaboration startup CubeTree, as it eyes the enterprise social networking market. Suddenly Salesforce.com Chatter has a new competitor. The announcement also offers validation that social networking is growing beyond the consumer space. SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard called CubeTree the key to unlocking the potential of workforce productivity.

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IBM Grabs Cast Iron To Help Connect the Enterprise to Public Cloud

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

IBM continued its buying spree with the acquisition of Cast Iron Systems, a software as a service (SaaS) and appliance vendor that helps customers connect their enterprise data center with public clouds like Amazon Web Services. Often described as a hybrid approach to cloud computing, Cast Iron's integration software has already been used for "thousands of cloud integrations around the world," the company said.

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Assessing the Salesforce.com and VMware Java Platform Push

Friday, April 30, 2010

On Tuesday Salesforce.com and VMware made good on their promise of big news with the announcement of VMforce, an enterprise Java cloud computing platform as a service (PaaS) for the Java developer community. It was hard to miss the news and there was a ton of coverage from analysts, the major news outlets and bloggers alike.

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Best of Interop 2010: Finalists and Winners

Thursday, April 29, 2010

InformationWeek Analytics announced the finalists and winners for Interop 2010. The categories included: cloud computing; collaboration; data center and storage; infrastructure; network management, monitoring and testing; performance optimization; security; virtualization; and wireless and mobility. It's interesting to note not just who won, but also those that made the top 3 as finalists. There were some interesting new names to go along with the incumbents. Here's the complete list:

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