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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
