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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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AppFog Aquires Nodester

August 28, 2012

Business

AppFog, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, Makara, Open source, PHP, platform services, WebSocket

As PaaS continues to generate ever-increasing levels of attention, the velocity of innovation in the space ramps up. Alongside this innovation, and in an effort to speed development, we’ll begin to see some consolidation with well-funded players acquiring companies…

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Temboo Eases App Development–API Shortcuts

August 10, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, Java, PHP, Pipes, Python, Ruby, Temboo, yahoo

The life of developers is arguably more exciting than ever before – with so many different services only an API call, it is possible for developers to deliver upon what were only dreams a few short years ago. But…

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Xeround Rolls out Database as a Service Further

May 14, 2012

Business

AWS, cloud computing, Database, EngineYard, MySQL, PHP, rackspace, Xeround

Xeround, the database as a service offering is today announcing an integration that sees it power MySQL applications running on both AppHarbor’s .Net platform as well as AppFog’s PHP platform. As developers increasingly look to PaaS as the first…

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Opa Aims to rethink Development for the Cloud

March 8, 2012

Business

cloudcomputing, Joyent, Opa, PHP, Programming language, Web application, Web development

I’ve been researching a whitepaper for CloudU that looks at the different languages modern developers of cloud applications need to think about and it struck me that we’re running into some problems. While the myriad different components of web…

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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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PaaS Ecosystems–AppFog Unveils an Add-On Program. How Much on a PaaS Should be Core Functionality?

December 7, 2011

Business

AppFog, Heroku, Lucas Carlson, NewRelic, PHP, PHP Fog

A growing theme amongst PaaS players is to develop an add-on program to give users of their platforms the ability to acquire and provision third party services that are already integrated with the core development environment. It’s a trend…

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Stackato gets Management and Monitoring for Private PaaS

November 8, 2011

Business

ActiveState, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, Java, NewRelic, OpenStack, PHP, Python

I’ve been really positive about Cloud Foundry, seeing it as doing the sort of things for PaaS that OpenStack does for IaaS. If Cloud Foundry succeeds in its aim, Organizations will have a PaaS solution that they can use…

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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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JRuby for Engine Yard Goes GA

September 28, 2011

Business

cloudcomputing, EngineYard, Java, JavaOne, JRuby, PHP, Ruby

In another step towards PaaS provider Engine Yard becoming a fully featured multi language platform player, they are today announcing that JRuby on Engine Yard is entering general availability. Timed to coincide with next week’s JavaOne conferent, JRuby is…

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