CloudFoundry Strikes Again: Uhuru Software Delivers Another .NET implementation
Just two days back, CloudFoundry community got excited about the support for .NET on the CloudFoundry framework. Even before the euphoria subsided, there is another announcement coming today, this time from Uhuru Software, about another implementation of .NET on CloudFoundry. Uhuru is a startup coming out of Stealth mode, founded by Microsoft veterans, offering comprehensive [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Tier3 Adds .NET Support To CloudFoundry By Forking It
Today Tier3, Bellevue based enterprise cloud hosting provider, announced that they are adding .NET support to CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) by forking it. With this, they are essentially pushing VMware’s PaaS solution into Windows shops who might be interested in using an open source alternative. Remember it is not a mono implementation but .NET based one of [...]
PaaS Element Types
Please Note : This post builds directly on the previous post “A viable PaaS Model“ What are PaaS Element Types? PaaS Element Types are the constructs required to build a PaaS. Each PaaS Element Type builds upon the previous, I’m not the first to come up with the overall concept of Types building upon one [...]
A Viable PaaS Model
What makes a PaaS a PaaS? I’ve seen many discussions on blogs and twitter around this topic, so much so that many people are tired of talking about it because it always leads to cyclical discussions. I for one haven’t been satisfied with any of the answers that I have seen. Some people try to [...]
SAP’s SuccessFactors Acquisition: The PaaS Angle
The world went crazy last weekend when SAP (previous CloudAve coverage) made an announcement about their intent to acquire SuccessFactors (previous CloudAve coverage), the cloud based Human Capital Management provider, for approximately $3.4 Billion. SAP, being very late to the cloud game and after few missteps, seems to be taking the acquisition as a fast [...]
CloudFoundry, VMware And “Evil Plans”
In my post about CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) last week, I talked about concerns some people have on VMware’s intentions and how I think it is a non-issue. I thought I will do a post explaining what these concerns are and outline the reasons that made me feel confident about CloudFoundry’s future. I was bullish [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Is Ramping Up Big Time
I have high hopes on CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage), VMware’s PaaS attempt, and consider the platform to be the standard for comparison in the PaaS space. Looks like it is not going to change anytime soon and last week showed that they are having ever increasing momentum in the market. No, they are not VMware’s [...]
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 [...]
Early Signs Of Big Data Going Mainstream
Today, Cloudera announced a new $40m funding round to scale their sales and marketing efforts and a partnership with NetApp where NetApp will resell Cloudera’s Hadoop as part of their solution portfolio. These both announcements are critical to where the cloud and Big Data are headed. Big Data going mainstream: Hadoop and MapReduce are not [...]
Cutting Through the Fog of Cloud Computing Definitions
In recent years, the term “cloud computing” has been used and abused by vendors and their marketing groups to denote just about anything the vendor offers other than on-premise systems. Analysts too have piled on, each offering their own definition of cloud computing. This 2009 Wall Street Journal article outlined the confusion. The result has been fruitless [...]
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
AppFog Announces Java Support – What The Heck Is Happening In PaaS Space?
Yesterday AppFog (previous CloudAve coverage), formerly known as PHPFog, announced that they are adding support for Java. With the addition Java support, they can now target enterprise developers who still believe in Java over the modern day languages. Along with Java, AppFog now support PHP, Ruby and Node.js. AppFog has a dual strategy in the space. [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: PHPCloud, Zend’s PHP PaaS Offering
Zend (previous CloudAve coverage), the company behind the popular PHP web application development framework, today announced the release of their PHP PaaS offering called PHPCloud.com, emphasizing on increased developer productivity. It is a clever packaging with strong ties between Zend Studio, Zend Framework and the elastic nature of cloud. As we see PaaS to be [...]
SuccessFactors Selects CloudFoundry As Custom Application Development Platform
Successfactors, the business execution software company, has selected CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage), VMWare’s PaaS offering, as the platform to develop custom applications for their customers. With 3500 customers and their 15 Million employees, this is a big win for CloudFoundry to show that they are a strong enterprise PaaS player. As more and more enterprises [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Heroku Adds Scala And Cumulogic Goes OpenStack
Gone are the days when I have to emphasize the importance of PaaS as the future of cloud services and we are now seeing a complete transformation of the PaaS space with all the PaaS vendors focussing on multi-language and multi-cloud trend. In fact, the PaaS layer is somewhat commoditized with very little differentiation and [...]
