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  • RedHat’s OpenShift PaaS Cozies Up To Microsoft .NET. Huh?

    March 5, 2014

    Business
    Cloud Foundry, linux, Microsoft, OpenShift, Platform as a service, Red Hat, Steve Ballmer, Uhuru
     

    Here’s one for the books. RedHat, the bastion of enterprise Linux has just announced that it will be supporting Microsoft .NET and SQL Server capabilities on its OpenShift PaaS. How times have changed, we all remember a little over…

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  • Red Hat and Docker – Application Portability Meets PaaS Automation

    September 19, 2013

    Business
    Docker, Fedora Project, linux, LXC, OpenShift, Platform as a service, Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
     

    One of the products that has really captured attention recently is Docker, an open source project that packs, deploys, moves and runs applications within lightweight containers. While containerization is a well established approach towards application deployment, in a cloudy…

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  • Ravello and the Developer’s Application Hypervisor Attract $26M in Funding

    February 4, 2013

    Business
    Benny Schnaider, cloud computing, Pentacom, Qumranet, Rami Tamir, Ravello, Red Hat, VMware
     

    While in Israel last week, I took the opportunity to meet with Ravello, a company just coming out of stealth that aims to ease the process of development and deployment of enterprise applications. Founded by the creators of open…

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  • VMware, Puppet Labs and an Infrastructure Future

    January 28, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, DevOps, Information technology management, Luke Kanies, puppet, Puppet Labs, Red Hat, VMware
     

    News recently that VMware, fresh from spinning out most of its developer focused non-virtualization assets in the Pivotal Initiative, has put a huge $30M finding into Puppet Labs. As part of the deal, VMware and Puppet will team up to produce a new IT management solution for VMware customers to use that leverages the automation […]

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  • PaaS API Specification Submitted to OASIS–CAMP Blowing Around in the Tumbleweeds

    August 30, 2012

    Business
    Application programming interface, CloudBees, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, EngineYard, platform services, Red Hat, Sam Ramji
     

    I took some time out of my day at CloudOpen today to dial in for a briefing from some of the companies behind a new industry standard, Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP), a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) management Application Programming…

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  • Linux Foundation Launches CloudOpen Event

    April 24, 2012

    Business
    cloud computing, Eucalyptus Systems, IBM, linux, opensource, OpenStack, Red Hat
     

    I’m a firm believer in the value that an open approach towards cloud computing can bring. Aside from any technical benefit (of which there are many) open appeals to my sense of community, of fairness, of democratization. For this…

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