CAMP: Will It Be Relevant?
Last week at CloudOpen 2012, a group of vendors in the platforms space announced a new set of specifications to help simplify management of applications in the public and private clouds. Called CAMP, these specifications are submitted to OASIS to develop it as an industry standard. The initial reaction from the industry and some cloud [...]
Day #1 => Cloud Expo & Cloud Bootcamp
Thanks to Larry Carvalho and Krishnan Subramanian for lining me up to speak at the kick off bootcamp keynote and for a PaaS Session at the Cloud Expo Boot Camp. I had a great time and was able to cover some great material with the audience. It was great to hear a number of companies [...]
CloudBees Adds HA To Jenkins Enterprise Edition
CloudBees (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS company behind the Open Source Jenkins project, today announced that they are offering a high availability plugin to their Jenkins Enterprise product. They made this announcement at the Jenkins User Conference at New York City. This plugin will help in better uptime and improved governance/oversight along with increased productivity. [...]
CloudBees Multi-Cloud Approach: A Lesson For Cloud Service Providers?
Last month CloudBees (previous CloudAve coverage), the Java PaaS provider and the company behind Jenkins, announced the availability of CloudBees AnyCloud, their multi-cloud strategy in an era where every cloud provider is offering support to multiple infrastructure services underneath. Though the news is a month old, I got briefed by them recently and the discussions [...]
Reality Distortion Field : 17 Companies’ Sitrep
I’m sitting on the bus this morning. As happens almost every day of the week. I’m flipping pages, sort of, it’s an eBook on my Kindle App. I’m reading about Steve Jobs taking over the Macintosh Program at Apple. How things started to fall into place for Apple, for the Macintosh, and how Jobs saw [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Apprenda And Redhat Update Their Platforms
As we march towards a future dominated by PaaS, we are seeing companies ramping up their offerings. Today Apprenda (previous CloudAve coverage), the .NET PaaS provider, and Redhat (previous CloudAve Coverage), with their Openshift PaaS (previous CloudAve coverage) offering, made announcements about updates to their respective platforms. Apprenda announced the release of Apprenda 3.0, newer [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudBees Secures Series B Funding
CloudBees (previous CloudAve coverage), the Java based PaaS provider, yesterday announced an additional round of funding worth $10.5 Million. Regular readers of this blog know that I am bullish on the fact that PaaS is the future of Cloud Services and this funding news only confirms that investors also believe in this trend. CloudBees was started by [...]
OpenStack Conference And Design Summit: A Recap
Last week I spent some time at the OpenStack Design Summit and Conference at Santa Clara, talking to developers, ecosystem partners, analysts, etc. on where OpenStack (previous CloudAve coverage) is headed. There were almost 500 people from the OpenStack community who attended the event. There was excitement in the air and I saw many new [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudBees Is Ready To Go
CloudBees, the Java PaaS provider founded in 2010, today went live with the PaaS offering targeted at enterprise Java developers. Unlike few other PaaS providers, CloudBees doesn’t restrict developers on their platform. Moreover, unlike VMForce, CloudBees platform can be used by both Java EE and Spring Developers. Their platform service has an IDE component and [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudBees Acquires Stax Networks To Accelerate Their PaaS Strategy
CloudBees, founded in early 2010 with developers in US, Europe and Australia, today announced the acquisition of Stax Networks, the Java Application platform running on top of EC2. This acquisition accelerates CloudBees’ RUN@cloud PaaS strategy which is slated for release in January 2011. Regular readers of this blog know that I am strongly pushing the [...]
