Making PaaS Like Lego
Recently I was briefed by WorkXpress about their Platform as a Service that they tout as being “the world’s most functional PaaS”. That’s a pretty lofty claim given the competition in the marketplace so I thought I’d take a look under the hood. I spoke with Treff LaPlante, President and CEO of this seven year [...]
PaaS, Trusting Beyond Its Initial Hype
Image via Wikipedia Friday, I wrote about the shutdown of PaaS vendor, Coghead, and wondered how one can minimize the risks involved with such scenarios. Unless we figure out a way to minimize such risks, it will be impossible to convince enterprise customers to trust their applications on top of PaaS. Let us take a detour and check out some of the players [...]
Coghead Shuts Down And SAP Picks It Up
Yesterday, Techcrunch added Coghead, a PaaS vendor, closed the shutters down, putting their users in some serious jeopardy. This also raises the question critics of Cloud Computing raise during the course of the fear mongering they unleash to protect their bases. How can we rely on Cloud vendors when there is a real danger of [...]
