Tag Archives: PaaS

13/01/2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ActiveState Stackato Now Supports Private PaaS on HP Cloud Services

By Ben Kepes

With the multitude of PaaS vendors that now exist, most providing an all-things-to-all-people polyglot solution that is (in my view at least) largely undifferentiated from their competitors, there is an increasing focus on vendors making partnerships that allows them to build both mindshare and market penetration. The latest is ActiveState

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18/11/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

EngineYard Adds Another Framework and Introduces Labs

By Ben Kepes

Quick post this morning to tell reader that EngineYard is rolling out yet another language/framework for its PaaS, this time Node.js. Alongside this fact (and we’ve all grown pretty well accustomed to PaaS players adding new languages and frameworks on a weekly basis, EngineYard is introducing a “labs” feature that

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27/10/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS

By Ben Kepes

The other day Krish bemoaned the fact that PaaS is rapidly becoming homogenized as all players rapidly follow their competitors in rolling out features and languages. As Krish said; …[they] talk about differentiation in terms of user experience. But, ladies and gentlemen, I hear the same from every other PaaS

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30/08/2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

The Perception Risks of Multi Language PaaS

By Ben Kepes

Over the past year or so I’ve become more excited about PaaS and what it means for the future of technology. In my mind, it seems that teo things are going on in the cloud stack. At the lower levels of the stack, IaaS is becoming commoditized and rapidly entering

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17/08/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

CloudFoundry Inks Distribution and Deployment Deals

By Ben Kepes

In my mind at least, PaaS is the area of cloud computing that is seriously exciting right now – while what can be achieved with a SaaS app has pretty much been tapped out, and infrastructure becomes more and more commoditized, it is PaaS where people are doing amazing things

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11/08/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Intuit Moves up the Stack for IPP – Drops Native Platform

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been following Intuit’s moves to become a relevant Cloud player for many years now, and was one of the first people to write about the Intuit Partner Platform when it launched almost three years ago. The Internet Partner Platform was created in order to enable applications to be created

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24/07/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Rollbase Rolls Options for Salesforce Users

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from ReadWriteWeb One comment I hear regularly from Salesforce.com users (or potential users) are the concerns around the price, and lack of flexibility around pricing, of the Salesforce.com solution. It’s an issue that I predicted would see some movement at Dreamforce last year, but one that Salesforce.com has been mostly

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27/06/2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

.NET has Enterprise Cred–AppHarbor Banks on That With a PaaS

By Ben Kepes

In the race to build credibility with the development community, Ruby on Rails wins the battle to be cool hands down – look for a new web 2.0 application, or hunt down a quintessential garage-dwelling developer and it’s a safe bet they live in Ruby. That doesn’t change the fact

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14/06/2011 Posted in Business 9 Comments

On the Battle Lines of PaaS–The Future is Bifurcated

By Ben Kepes

Friend and one-time colleague Krishnan Subramanian posted recently his view of the different ways PaaS products can be differentiated. Very briefly, Krish classed products in three distinct categories; Traditional PaaS models (push your app to the PaaS and all the underlying stuff is taken care of). Examples – Heroku, Google

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09/06/2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Standing Cloud–Building an Intermediate Layer for the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

While in Colorado I took the opportunity to spend some time with Standing Cloud – a vendor that provides an abstraction layer sitting on top of infrastructure offerings that helps cloud users deploy, manage, customize and develop applications on different IaaS offerings with different programming languages. The service currently supports

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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