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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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If IaaS is Going to be Heterogeneous, PaaS Will be Even More So

September 25, 2012

Business

appsecute, Business, cloudcomputing, Future, Infrastructure, management, Organization, PaaS, platform services, Solution

The other day I came across this awesome post from Peter Sonsini from NEA. I’m actually loathe to critique it – Peter has gone to lengths to present a coherent thought leadership piece on the future of PaaS and…

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VMware Rumors Circulate–MyPOV on What the New CEO Should Do

July 17, 2012

Business

appsecute, BMC, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, emc, iaas, Microsoft, PaaS, Paul Maritz, Platform as a service, VMware

With the tech press going into a tailspin yesterday over long-time Googler Marissa Mayaer being appointed as Yahoo! CEO, an equally exciting piece of news and separate but connected rumor was largely ignored. GigaOM reported that VMware is likely…

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Clarifying the Acronyms – SaaS, PaaS and IaaS

March 30, 2012

Business

cloud, cloudcomputing, iaas, PaaS, Platform as a service, SaaS

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what…

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Amazon Goes PaaS–Game On. Let’s See How the Competition Respond.

February 22, 2012

Business

amazon, AWS, cloudcomputing, EngineYard, Heroku, PaaS, Platform as a service, Salesforce.com, Werner Vogels

A week or two ago I had a heated argument on Twitter with someone who was adamant that Amazon would remain an infrastructure player and avoid the temptation to move up the stack. Even after the release of DynamoDB,…

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ActiveState Stackato Now Supports Private PaaS on HP Cloud Services

January 13, 2012

Business

ActiveState, Cloud Foundry, Cloudfoundry, HP Cloud Service, OpenStack, PaaS, Perl, PHP, Python, stackato

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…

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EngineYard Adds Another Framework and Introduces Labs

November 18, 2011

Business

EngineYard, google, Heroku, JavaScript, Node.js, PaaS, Programming language

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…

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OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS

October 27, 2011

Business

Apache Tomcat, cloudcomputing, Java, PaaS, PHP, rackspace, Rails, Ruby

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,…

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The Perception Risks of Multi Language PaaS

August 30, 2011

Business

appas, Clojure, cloudcomputing, Heroku, iPaaS, PaaS, Python, Salesforce.com

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…

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CloudFoundry Inks Distribution and Deployment Deals

August 17, 2011

Business

canonical, Cloudfoundry, Dell, enStratus, MongoDB, MySQL, Open source, OpenStack, Opscode, PaaS, RabbitMQ, Redis, VMware

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…

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