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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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  • Apprenda Launches Hybrid Cloud Support

    November 27, 2012

    Business
    .NET Framework, Apprenda, cloud computing, Microsoft Windows, PaaS, Paul Miller, platform services, Silicon Valley
     

    Today is the first day of the Cloudbeat conference, an event that myself and Paul Miller have, for the second year, built the agenda for. CloudBeat is all about customer case studies and not about vendor announcements, that said…

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  • Apprenda Introduces Free Public-Cloud Hosted Version of Its PaaS

    September 17, 2012

    Business
    .NET Framework, Apprenda, Business, Cloudfoundry, Heroku, platform services, Sinclair Schuller, Virtual machine
     

    In the seeming ever increasing rush towards so-called polyglot PaaS, or PaaS-providers supporting every language under the sun, there has been a single lone voice that has consistently been saying polyglot is a failed methodology. New York based Apprenda…

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  • Microsoft Offers Hosts Another Cloud to Chose From–White Labels Azure

    July 10, 2012

    Business
    .NET Framework, Apprenda, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, platform services, Satya Nadella, VMware
     

    Microsoft this week announced a new program that will allow hosting service providers to use existing data centers to deliver a white-label version of Azure. This is a progression from the announcement last month that Microsoft was giving developers…

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  • ActiveState Lanches Stackato 2.0

    July 10, 2012

    Business
    .NET Framework, ActiveState, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, Iron Foundry, opensource, Platform as a service, VMware
     

    ActiveState (see coverage here), is today announcing the general availability of version 2 of Stackato, their private PaaS designed for enterprise customers. By way of introductions, over the 15 or so years it has existed, ActiveState have focused on…

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  • Apprenda and Appfog Power Hybrid .NET

    June 6, 2012

    Business
    .NET Framework, AppFog, Application programming interface, Apprenda, Cloudfoundry, Heroku, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Platform as a service, Quest Software, Sinclair Schuller, Windows Azure
     

    I’ve always had a soft spot for .NET PaaS provider Apprenda, they were one of the very first PaaS providers, their CEO Sinclair Schuller is a thought leader around PaaS and Cloud more generally and they display a laser…

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

    June 27, 2011

    Business
    .NET Framework, appharbor, cloudcomputing, Heroku, Microsoft, PaaS, Ruby on Rails
     

    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…

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  • Engine Yard Goes Free(ish) and Talks Post Heroku Deal

    April 7, 2011

    Business
    .NET Framework, EngineYard, Heroku, Java, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce.com
     

    Engine Yard is a Ruby PaaS offering that, ever since the Decemebr acquisition by salesforce.com of another PaaS Heroku, has been held up as the last-man-standing (at least when it comes to independent Ruby based PaaS providers). They recently…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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