
Enterprise May Be Sexy, But….
On the very same day Salesforce.com acquires Exact Target in their largest ever transaction valued at $2.5B, TechMeme’s top news is crazy gamers dropped by even crazier gamers…

HP Announces Private PaaS Powered by Stackato
At HP’s Discover event here in Frankfurt today, the company will be announcing a private PaaS offering, built on top of Stackato, the PaaS which is itself a fork of the open source Cloud Foundry initiative. HP has entered into an agreement with ActiveState, the company behind Stackato, to OEM its platform and integrate it […]
Heroku Joins Cloud Foundry for Multi-PaaS Support from Appsecute
Let’s settle two things from the outset – firstly, PaaS is (I believe) the future of cloud services and will be the area for growth in the coming years. Secondly, I’m an investor and board member in Appsecute so I’m naturally bullish about what they’re doing. That said, today’s announcement

On VMware’s Cloud Foundry Core and PaaS Portability
Recently VMware announced Core, a baseline test that assesses how compatible an application is to the Cloud Foundry open source release. In order to derive this compatibility rating, Core is based on a base set of components – specific versions of runtimes and components that are currently within the Core stable. Krish Subramanian has written […]

CAMP: Will It Be Relevant?
Last week at CloudOpen 2012, a group of vendors in the platforms space announced a new set of specifications to help simplify management of applications in the public and private clouds. Called CAMP, these specifications are submitted to OASIS to develop it as an industry standard. The initial reaction from the industry and some cloud […]

ActiveState Lanches Stackato 2.0
ActiveState (see coverage here), is today announcing the general availability of version 2 of Stackato, their private PaaS designed for enterprise customers. By way of introductions, over the 15 or so years it has existed, ActiveState have focused on understanding three things deeply; Developers, Enterprises and OpenSource technologies. I spent some time recently talking with […]

ActiveState Stackato Now Supports Private PaaS on HP Cloud Services
With the multitude of PaaS vendors that now exist, most providing an all-things-to-all-people polyglot solution that is (in my view at least) largely undifferentiated from their competitors, there is an increasing focus on vendors making partnerships that allows them to build both mindshare and market penetration. The latest is ActiveState who has announced that their […]