GigaSpaces Brings Java to Azure
The last few months have seen a mass move from PaaS players to move from single language/framework to support to being all things to all peopple. From PHPFog renaming itself AppFog and adding new languages, to Heroku rolling out Java to CloudFoundry going Node.js, multi language is the way of the future it seems. One [...]
Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce Not Only Matures But Has Plans For Enterprise Domination
Last week I attended Dreamforce 2011, Salesforce’s (previous CloudAve coverage) annual user conference which exceeded 40K attendees this year, and the blogosphere is already filled with Dreamforce posts. I am adding one more to the mix and I want to apologize straight away for my contribution to the echo chamber. I will try my best [...]
DreamForce 2011–A Look Back
Having just returned from my trip to the US for DreamForce, I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on the news (see here and here) from the event. I wanted to write up post that takes a more thoughtful look at what was, and was not, announced, and what this means for the longer [...]
Force.com and Chatter Score a Coup – Hook Workday
Update – Both Infor and Concur announced similar deals – details to come. Update #2 – I spent time with Workday during the event to get a deeper understanding of what the force.com part of this deal actually means. Essentially Workday will use force.com for customers who wish to make advanced customizations on their Workday [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Heroku Adds Java Support
Looks like the flow of PaaS news coming out this week is not stopping anytime soon. Today Heroku (previous CloudAve coverage), the original PaaS poster kid, announced the support for Java, the fourth language they are supporting on their platform. With this move, Heroku is looking to tap into one of the largest developer pools [...]
OSCON: Talking Shop With HP, Heroku, ForgeRock, Open Source For America, and More!
Today and yesterday I specifically aimed to meet and interview a number of sponsors and companies attending OSCON. My big quest I’d assigned myself was to determine who was doing what, where, when, and why in the Open Source Community. Of course I wasn’t going to get to every company, but I was going to [...]
Heroku Supports Clojure
Heroku (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS poster kid acquired by Salesforce.com last year, today announced that they are officially supporting Clojure, a Lisp like language taking a more functional approach, and it is now available in public beta. Clohure is the third language supported by Heroku after Ruby and Node.js. We’re very excited to announce [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Battle Lines Are Clearly Drawn
Earlier this week, Heroku (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS player Salesforce acquired during last year’s Dreamforce, announced a major new release Celadon Cedar adding some powerful features targeting enterprise customers. They also announced full Node.js support and added Ruby 1.9.2 support. Some of the features include: New process model with support for background processes Procfiles [...]
Git Rid of Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDKs with .NET + Git + AppHarbor Deployment Revolution
I’ve been wanting to do a quick write up on the state of cloud apps from my perspective. What’s my perspective? Well I’m keeping up with the SDKs from the big players; AWS and Windows Azure. I’m also working on several cloud applications and providing consulting for some people and companies when approached related to [...]
Looking Back 2010: Key Cloud Acquisitions
This is the final post in the Looking Back 2010 Series and, also, for the year 2010. After looking at the three key cloud events in this year (thanks to James Urquhart for kicking up the discussion on Twitter), I want to do a post talking about some of the key acquisitions in the cloud [...]
Looking Back 2010: Salesforce, Heroku And Democratization Of Platforms
This is my second post in the series Looking Back 2010 where I plan to highlight some of the significant cloud related events in 2010. These year end picks are based on my observations of the industry over the past one year. In today’s post, I am going to talk about my second pick, the [...]
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 [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Salesforce.com’s Plan For Enterprise Domination
I think today is a good day to revisit PaaS is the future of the cloud services theme. Salesforce.com today announced their agreement to acquire Heroku, the ruby on rails PaaS provider. When people talk about Salesforce.com, the buzz is mostly around their CRM or Chatter and the discussions center around how it fits into [...]
Heroku Ramps Up Its Ecosystem Play
Heroku (See our previous coverage of Heroku here), the poster child of PaaS, has taken steps to ramp up their support for 3rd party service offerings by making it very easy for these providers to offer their service as add-ons to the Heroku platform. In this cloud based world, the very success of a cloud [...]
Splunk Makes Monitoring Clouds Easy
Even though cloud makes provisioning of IT resources just a click away, it is only the beginning of the game. Cloud infrastructure is not a miracle pill that completely eliminates any need for IT. The typical IT management problems of the traditional computing world is carried forward to the cloud based world too. The biggest [...]
