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Is Cloud Foundry the Next OpenStack?

August 14, 2013

Business

ActiveState, CenturyLink, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, IBM, Open source, OpenStack, Platform as a service, VMware

Disclosure – I am an adviser to ActiveState, creator of the Stackato Cloud Foundry-based PaaS. I’ve also consulted to a number of companies mentioned in this article. Full details on my disclosure page. Ever since Pivotal was created with IP from…

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IBM and Cloud Foundry – Because War Makes the Strangest Bedfellows

July 29, 2013

Business

Charles Dudley Warner, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, EMC Corporation, IBM, Open source, OpenStack, Platform as a service

Charles Dudley Warner is credited with making the well-known comment that war makes the strangest bedfellows and last week, in an act that would have impressed both him and The Art of War author Sun Tzu, IBM and Pivotal…

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ActiveState Acquires Appsecute – Job Done, Now Back to Work

June 4, 2013

Business

ActiveState, christchurch, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, Mark Cox, New Zealand, platform services, stackato

(Disclosure – I was an investor and director in Appsecute and am an Adviser to ActiveState) Around 18 months ago I was introduced to Mark Cox and Tyler Power, two smart guys from my hometown who were building a…

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Apprenda Shifts the Game on Polyglot Vs Best of Breed PaaS

February 27, 2013

Business

.NET Framework, Apprenda, Cloudfoundry, EngineYard, Heroku, Java, JPMorgan Chase, platform services

One of the biggest battles raging in the PaaS world has been between the Polyglot and the Best of Breed camps. In the polyglot corner stands Heroku, Engine Yard and Cloud Foundry who all say that only a platform…

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Tensions in the Cloud Foundry Camp–On the Problems with Forks

February 27, 2013

Business

Cloudfoundry, Krishnan Subramanian, Linus Torvalds, Open source, OpenStack, platform services, Stephen O’Grady, VMware

Let there be no doubt, open source projects are hard. Balancing central control while still allowing individual members a degree of autonomy is like walking a tightrope – too much control and it looks like a dictatorship, too little…

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Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

February 26, 2013

Business

amazon-web-service, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, EngineYard, Heroku, oracle, platform services, Salesforce.com, SAP, SAP AG

I kind of feel sorry for Engine Yard sometime – once seen as one of the two best-known Platform as a Service offerings (alongside Heroku), the acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce kind of reduced Engine Yard’s visibility. The subsequent…

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Guest Post – Beyond the Buzzword: 8 Key Capabilities to PaaS – Part III – Business Services

December 27, 2012

Business

ActiveState, Business, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, Open source, platform services, Salesforce.com, Software as a Service

Every now and then I am asked by someone to guest post on my blog – recently Quinton Wall from salesforce.com approached me to do a series on PaaS. I took a look at what he was proposing and…

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Guest post – Beyond the Buzzword: 8 Key Capabilities to PaaS. Part II – Developer & Platform Services

December 18, 2012

Business

ActiveState, Application programming interface, Business, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, Open source, platform services, Salesforce.com

Every now and then I am asked by someone to guest post on my blog – recently Quinton Wall from salesforce.com approached me to do a series on PaaS. I took a look at what he was proposing and…

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Guest Post – Beyond the Buzzword: 8 Key Capabilities to PaaS – Part I – Infrastructure & Operational Services

December 12, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, Forrester Research, Geoffrey Moore, Information technology, platform services, Salesforce.com

Every now and then I am asked by someone to guest post on my blog – recently Quinton Wall from salesforce.com approached me to do a series on PaaS. I took a look at what he was proposing and…

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HP Announces Private PaaS Powered by Stackato

December 5, 2012

Business

ActiveState, Application programming interface, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, Frankfurt, PHP, platform services, VMware

At HP’s Discover event here in Frankfurt today, the company will be announcing a private PaaS offering, built on top of Stackato, the PaaS which is itself a fork of the open source Cloud Foundry initiative. HP has entered…

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