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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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The Business Value of Private PaaS

May 13, 2013

Business

ActiveState, Apprenda, cloud computing, CloudConnect, DeployCon, platform services, Sinclair Schuller, Software as a Service

A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of being involved with the second DeployCon event. DeployCon is an event that explores Platform as a Service and its place in the technology landscape going forwards. As part of…

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Speaking in Tech Podcast

April 29, 2013

Business

cloud computing, CloudConnect, google app engine, hewlett packard, Margaret Dawson, platform services, San Francisco Bay Area, Savvis

While I was in the Bay Area recently for Cloud Connect, I took the opportunity to spend half an hour or so recording a podcast with Ed Saipetch from Savvis and Margaret Dawson, newly appointed VP of Marketing and…

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Speaking at DeployCon and CloudConnect

April 1, 2013

Business

ActiveState, CloudConnect, Cloudscaling, Neal Sample, platform services, Ryan Floyd, Salil Deshpande, Software as a Service

This week sees me on a whirlwind visit to the Bay Area where I’ll be speaking at a few different events as follows: Tuesday – DeployCon I’m really looking forward to the second edition of DeployCon – in the…

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Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS

February 28, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Big data, cloudcomputing, Continuuity, DevOps, Facebook, platform services, Todd Papaioannou

When Continuuity launched late last year I was pretty skeptical given the buzzword heavy press release, light on any real specifics. After spending some time talking with the founders however I was more positive, and not only because of…

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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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Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

January 4, 2013

Business

cloudcomputing, EngineYard, Force.Com, Heroku, platform services, Salesforce.com, Software as a Service, Visual Basic

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing what I saw happening with Salesforce – how the combination of force.com and…

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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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