rPath Press Release: False Promise of PaaS and Impact on Businesses
To add context to the discussion and why I perceive rPath’s use of the term PaaS is actually a misuse of the term, I am posting a press release I got from them on May 9th 2012 with the above title and the content below. ################################################################## Is PaaS (Platform as a Service) an all-encompassing solution [...]
rPath’s Enterprise PaaS Is Not PaaS. Period.
rPath (previous CloudAve coverage) has been pushing their offering as Enterprise PaaS. Recently they briefed me on their announcement made this week around VMworld about Enterprise Cloud Adoption Framework. They unveiled this along with Cisco Systems as a way for enterprises to push their legacy applications to cloud. They are arguing that enterprises are [...]
rPath Announces Support For OpenStack and vCloud Director
rPath (see previous CloudAve coverage), the North Carolina based company offering deployment and maintenance solutions across physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced additional features to their newly launched product, called rPath X6. rPath X6 now supports OpenStack (see previous CloudAve coverage) and vCloud Director. This clearly makes rPath attractive for enterprises with the expected [...]
rPath And Collabnet Partner To Add Agility To Cloud Deployments
rPath (see previous CloudAve coverage), the North Carolina based company offering deployment and maintenance solutions across physical, virtual and cloud environments, has partnered with Collabnet, whose popular platform is used for distributed software development, to bring in agility to cloud application deployment. They announced their partnership today with the hope that they can deliver an [...]
Perform The Hybrid Cloud Dance Easily With newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus
Cloud Computing is both inspiring and confusing to many people. When you realize the efficiency and cost savings offered by the cloud, you get inspired but when you listen to the marketing folks, you get confused. The reason is pretty straightforward. The marketing folks on the public cloud side wants you to believe that it [...]
Bitrock Makes Cloud App Deployments Easier With BitNami Studio
Bitrock, the company that provides tools and services to package, deploy and update software, has announced the release of Bitnami Studio, a self service GUI based platform to package and deploy applications to the clouds. It offers choice from the underlying operating systems to middleware/runtime to applications to the users so that they can easily [...]
rPath Makes Cloud Deployment Easy With rBuilder Version 5
rPath, the company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, was founded by a team of executives who came from Redhat. Like Redhat, rPath has embraced the Open Source model in their quest to help ISVs and enterprises achieve Cloud nirvana. I have been tracking this company for quite some time now but I never got a [...]
Holiday Fun: Cloud Computing in Plain English
From a company that makes Cloud Computing easy for users with their rbuilder and lifecycle management platform, rPath, comes a video on Cloud Computing in Plain English. It is time for some holiday fun.
