Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS
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 the princely $10M funding round the company had just raised. As I said at the time: [...]
VMware, Puppet Labs and an Infrastructure Future
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 [...]
New Meme: Business Users Are The IT
For the past two years, I have been advocating PaaS as the future of cloud services and how developers are the face of the IT in the PaaS era. I have long argued that as PaaS takes over the IT infrastructure in the organizations, we will see a shift in who holds the key to [...]
The Basho Riak News Keeps Coming – Get to Distributing All The Things!
I mentioned earlier this week on Twitter that there was a deluge of software releases, additions and other goodies that would be released in the coming days. Earlier this week Jeremiah @peschkaj & OJ @TheColonial released the CorrugatedIron .NET Client for Riak. Big news for my .NET cohorts out there! It makes life uber easy …
Amazon Cloud and the Enterprise – Is it a love story? (Free Infographic Included)
As befitting any great online vendor, Amazon cloud product guys listen carefully to their market targets and ensure fast implementation and delivery to satisfy their needs. It is clear that Amazon cloud is eager to conquer the enterprise market, as I already mentioned in my past post, “Amazon AWS is the Cloud (for now anyway)“. [...]
Boundary Delivers Application Monitoring–For Free
Boundary, the application monitoring company that promises super-quick implementation time is today announcing a bunch of new capabilities that it is hoping will see it increase uptake for its offering. Included in this release is an interesting new tool that creates visual representations of application topology and tracks changes in
BMC Acquires VaraLogix, Releases Version 3.0 of CLM
BMC software the IT service management vendor that is arguably best known for producing the Remedy ITSM product, also has an interest in providing a broad set of tools for the management of enterprise’s IT assets – it’s cloud life management (CLM) and cloud operations management (COM) toolsets are platforms
CollabNet and the Enterprise Cloud Development Perspective
A growing trend over the past few years in this industry has been towards providing tools for developers working within enterprise. The growth of enterprise awareness of agile methodologies, along with the rise of Cloud computing generally and Platform as a Service specifically has given such vendors as Atlassian, PivotalLabs
Cloudsoft Makes DevOps Approach To PaaS Seamless
Cloudsoft Corporation, UK based consulting company turned multi cloud application management provider, today announced that they are open sourcing Brooklyn multi-cloud application management platform under Apache license. In short, Brooklyn is an autonomic policy driven control plane for distributed applications. Seeing it from another angle, it can also be seen as a DIY PaaS platform. [...]
Can We Use DevOps And PaaS In The Same Sentence?
In spite of my post yesterday explaining the nuances behind the usage of the term NoOps, vendors with tools in Ops and DevOps space are taking the debate in binary terms. In spite of my efforts to highlight the fact that NoOps doesn’t mean Ops is going away, they are arguing that it conveys the [...]
NoOps Is As Legitimate As DevOps
Ever since Lucas Carlson, CEO of AppFog, brought the term “NoOps” into the focus of discussion, there is quite a bit of backlash against the term. The debate sometimes borders along insanity and I thought I will add my 2 cents to this cacophony. In fact, this backlash is nothing new. Whenever I make a statement [...]
FeedHenry Powers Mobile Application on Cloud Foundry
In researching a development whitepaper that I’m soon to publish, I’ve been struck by how development is now a strongly bifurcated role – there is a segmentation of needs and skills between those building for the backend – who need to think about scale, DevOps and stability, and those building for the frontend who worry [...]
Cloud Complexity ? It’s A Wrench.
A new year, a old topic. Complexity. “CLOUD IS COMPLEX” screamed the headline of two recent blog posts from my Clouderati alumni, James Urquhart and Sam Johnston. Really ? Who would have thought ? There really is nothing that gets past these two guys, is there ? Joking aside, their respective copy brings a sharp [...]
Boundary Latest to pick up Cloud Monitoring Funding
Whenever technology platforms change, there is a scramble to provide the underlying services upon which the new paradigm sits. The move to the cloud is no different and cloud monitoring is one area where there is a significant amount of activity in terms of startups being founded and funded. Today it’s the turn of Boundary, [...]
rPath And Collabnet Partner To Add Agility To Cloud Deployments
rPath (see previous CloudAve coverage), the North Carolina based company offering deployment and maintenance solutions across physical, virtual and cloud environments, has partnered with Collabnet, whose popular platform is used for distributed software development, to bring in agility to cloud application deployment. They announced their partnership today with the hope that they can deliver an [...]
