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 [...]
OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS
The other day Krish bemoaned the fact that PaaS is rapidly becoming homogenized as all players rapidly follow their competitors in rolling out features and languages. As Krish said; …[they] talk about differentiation in terms of user experience. But, ladies and gentlemen, I hear the same from every other PaaS
JRuby for EngineYard Goes GA
In another step towards PaaS provider Engine Yard becoming a fully featured multi language platform player, they are today announcing that JRuby on Engine Yard is entering general availability. Timed to coincide with next week’s JavaOne conferent, JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby language that Engine Yard initially supported. Using JRuby, Java developers [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: OpenShift adds Java EE 6 Support
Today Redhat (previous CloudAve coverage), the North Carolina based Open Source software company, announced that their PaaS platform, OpenShift (previous CloudAve coverage), will support Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 6. OpenShift is the first PaaS provider to offer support for Java EE 6 and it is powered by Redhat’s JBoss Application server. This is yet [...]
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 [...]
VMWare Disrupts PaaS Space With Cloud Foundry – An Analysis
VMware (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced Cloud Foundry, its Open Platform as a Service product, at a special event in Palo Alto. Cloud Foundry is both hosted and available as open source. More interestingly, it can run on your laptop or a single server or 1000s of VMs or, even, hundreds of dedicated servers. Apart [...]
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: Amazon Enters The PaaS World
As expected, Amazon has finally stepped into the PaaS world. I have long been arguing in this space that PaaS is the future of Cloud Services and many in the Clouderati and some pundits were waiting for Amazon to go up the stack to PaaS. Even in a recent post on Amazon’s Android App Store [...]
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 [...]
Internal Email on Why a Software Company Migrates Away from MySQL
Twitter is abuzz this morning with MySQL news: What these messages refer to is that Oracle dropped InnoDB from the free Classic Edition, it is now only available starting with the $2,000 Standard Edition. A few days ago we heard support prices were increased – none of this should come as a surprise, the writing [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: VMForce – A Marriage Of Convenience
This is a second post in my series titled “PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services“. I was planning to write about Heroku but since the VMForce news was a good fit for the topic, I am pushing the analysis of VMForce under the series. The post about Heroku will follow soon. Today morning, VMWare [...]
Microsoft Azure Brings on Some Support for Open Source
As Azure gets closer to its release date of 01 January 2010 – the biggest question is what kind of support can you get for open source systems or programs like PHP. With AWS (Amazon Web Services) you can get Linux and native PHP support, and you can do the same with Rack Space Cloud [...]
A Sad Day for Open Source? Oracle Acquires Sun…
Java? MySQL? Not much more to say at the moment… Yes, I know, this should have been a Tweet Details @ Bloomberg, NYT, TechCrunch, GigaOM, deal architect, SmoothSpan and soon the rest of the world… Update: A day later, if you had any doubts, here’s the answer: Bye-bye MySQL, Bye-bye: Buried Alive By Oracle.
