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 [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Why Microsoft Should Focus On PaaS
After a hiatus, I am going to touch the “PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services” series again. When I wrote the post on Rightscale’s support for Windows, I linked to the Rightscale blog post where they had highlighted the difficulties with Windows instances. Picking up on the Rightscale post, William Vambenepe, a cloud pundit, [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: APIs Are The Key
This is my fifth post in the series titled “PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services” and I am going to briefly discuss one of the key elements of this PaaS-y future, the APIs. Even though having an API doesn’t make something a platform, APIs are key to the very success of the Platform Services. [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Northscale Wants To Help Extend Platform Services
This is the 4th post in the PaaS is the future of Cloud Services Series. In this post, I am going to talk about the importance of extensibility of any platform and highlight one of the vendors in the space, Northscale. Yesterday Northscale announced a Series B funding worth $10M led by Mayfield Fund. Series A [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of The Cloud Services: Heroku Is Ready To Be There
Image via CrunchBase This is the third post in the PaaS is the future of cloud services series but a long overdue one. The focus of the series is to highlight the fact that PaaS, not IaaS, is going to play an important role in the future of cloud services because of the value it [...]
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 [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services Series
Image via Wikipedia There is an overwhelming view among the pundits that PaaS is the future of cloud services and IaaS will slowly go into the background. In fact, in my opinion, PaaS is the idea of cloud computing that comes closer to the utility comparison made by Nick Carr in his book “The Big [...]
