
Apprenda Shifts the Game on Polyglot Vs Best of Breed PaaS
One of the biggest battles raging in the PaaS world has been between the Polyglot and the Best of Breed camps. In the polyglot corner stands Heroku, Engine Yard and Cloud Foundry who all say that only a platform that gives an organization the ability to develop in multiple different

Apprenda Launches Hybrid Cloud Support
CloudBeat is all about customer case studies and not about vendor announcements, that said I am aware of a couple of announcements coming up today in the PaaS space.

Apprenda Introduces Free Public-Cloud Hosted Version of Its PaaS
In the seeming ever increasing rush towards so-called polyglot PaaS, or PaaS-providers supporting every language under the sun, there has been a single lone voice that has consistently been saying polyglot is a failed methodology. New York based Apprenda makes a .NET PaaS and has long said that only through

Microsoft, Apprenda And Service Providers – An Analysis
Microsoft (previous CloudAve coverage) and Apprenda (previous CloudAve coverage) yesterday made some announcements focussing on service providers at #wpc12 and it generated lots of buzz in the tech community. Even though there were lot of talk about the VMware angle in the story and about Microsoft planning to push Azure as the cloud OS of […]

Microsoft Offers Hosts Another Cloud to Chose From–White Labels Azure
Microsoft this week announced a new program that will allow hosting service providers to use existing data centers to deliver a white-label version of Azure. This is a progression from the announcement last month that Microsoft was giving developers the ability to achieve symmetry between public and private PaaS with .NET as this announcement heads […]

AppFog, Apprenda And Azure: The Future Of PaaS Is Getting Defined
Three news from three different vendors came out today but they are interconnected with one another. More interestingly, this has the potential to redefine PaaS landscape empowering the end users by helping them avoid infrastructure lock-in. AppFog and Apprenda have announced interoperability with Windows Azure which itself is undergoing a revamp (you can learn more […]

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 […]
Apprenda’s In the Money – $5 Million in Funding
I’ve written before about Apprenda, a company I’ve followed since I started blogging. Their company blog (sadly somewhat silent of late) was one of the early places for vendor thought-leadership around PaaS in particular. I was stoked to hear from CEO and co-founder Sinclair Schuller the other day that Apprenda had just secured a $5 […]

Kepes in the Clouds (Sans Diamonds)
My fellow Editor, Ben is to modest to post it, so I will do it: Due to the volume of listener response – including much Twitter discussion #Follow Friday, and #journchat and more — to its first panel on SaaS (Software as a Service) VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network has asked ‘Cloud Evangelist’ Ben Kepes to […]
Another Radio Show…
Actually talking to people makes a nice change from written correspondence. A month or so ago I took part in a really fun live radio show with a bunch of SaaS accounting vendors – following on from that show (and totally due to the good things the participants had to say rather than anything I […]