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 [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Engine Yard Opens Up Platform Services
Engine Yard (previous CloudAve coverage), one of the earliest PaaS players, today announced the launch of Engine Yard Platform Services. This is a partner program with more than 40 cloud vendors offering their services for Engine Yard platform. This is more like an appstore for Engine Yard Platform customers so that they can easily use [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: AppFog Adds Ruby And Node.js Support
Appfog (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS player previously known as PHPFog, today announced support for Ruby and Node.js on their platform. This is nothing new or surprising and I can even say that this completes the process of removing any differentiation in terms of language support among the PaaS providers (yeah, I know that there [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Validates Its OpenPaaS Mantra
As I advocate the bright future PaaS holds in the cloud era, I never missed a chance to point our how VMware’s CloudFoundry is disrupting this space. The reason I think CloudFoundry is disruptive is because of the open approach they take (OpenPaaS) in their platform services. While there are some lock-in worries about the [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Engine Yard Acquires Orchestra
I am sure regular readers of this blog are convinced that PaaS is the future of Cloud Services. We are seeing this trend happening now with so much action on the PaaS front. Today Engine Yard (previous CloudAve coverage) reacted to the market trend and announced the acquisition of Orchestra, the Irish PHP PaaS company. [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Lines Up Deployment Partners
This is next in the series of post where I am highlighting the importance of PaaS in the future of cloud services. VMware’s CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) has completely altered the PaaS landscape with a first multi-cloud, multi-language open source platform. While the platform has clearly won the hearts of both pundits and developers, there [...]
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: Cumulogic Goes Public Beta
Cumulogic, the first company to offer private PaaS solution, today announced that they are making their platform open to public in beta form. You can download Cumulogic platform from their website and run on public and private clouds. They offer a powerful Java PaaS supporting all the Java Frameworks including Spring. I have been talking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Cloud Foundry Supports Scala
Cloud Foundry (previous CloudAve coverage), VMware’s attempt at multi cloud PaaS, today announced that they are supporting Scala, a language for highly scalable applications and platforms. Cloud Foundry was earlier supporting Spring, Rails and Node.js. Since Cloud Foundry platform is designed to support multiple application frameworks, adding support for additional languages is very easy. For [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Terracotta Is Software AG’s PaaS Play?
Software AG, the German software vendor with focus on business users, today announced the acquisition of Terracotta, the company behind distributed Java cache called Ehcache, signaling their intention for a serious cloud play. The details of the deal are unknown but it is a smart move by Software AG because Terrecotta has great expertise in [...]
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 [...]
