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HP Announces Private PaaS Powered by Stackato

HP Announces Private PaaS Powered by Stackato

By Ben Kepes on December 5, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged ActiveState, Application programming interface, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, Frankfurt, HPDiscover, PHP, platform services, stackato, vmware | 3 Responses

AppFog Aquires Nodester

AppFog Aquires Nodester

By Ben Kepes on August 29, 2012

As PaaS continues to generate ever-increasing levels of attention, the velocity of innovation in the space ramps up. Alongside this innovation, and in an effort to speed development, we’ll begin to see some consolidation with well-funded players acquiring companies to add to their own product mix. We’ll also see well-funded companies strategically acquire other companies […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged appfog, CloudComputing, Cloudfoundry, makara, PHP, platform services, WebSocket

Xeround Rolls out Database as a Service Further

Xeround Rolls out Database as a Service Further

By Ben Kepes on May 14, 2012

Xeround, the database as a service offering is today announcing an integration that sees it power MySQL applications running on both AppHarbor’s .Net platform as well as AppFog’s PHP platform. As developers increasingly look to PaaS as the first choice for easing the deployment and management aspects of their task, they also look to add […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged aws, cloud computing, database, engineyard, mysql, PHP, rackspace, xeround

Opa Aims to rethink Development for the Cloud

Opa Aims to rethink Development for the Cloud

By Ben Kepes on March 8, 2012

I’ve been researching a whitepaper for CloudU that looks at the different languages modern developers of cloud applications need to think about and it struck me that we’re running into some problems. While the myriad different components of web applications give great flexibility, they do little to hide the complexity of development and a key […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged CloudComputing, Joyent, Opa, PHP, Programming language, Web application, web development

ActiveState Stackato Now Supports Private PaaS on HP Cloud Services

ActiveState Stackato Now Supports Private PaaS on HP Cloud Services

By Ben Kepes on January 16, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged ActiveState, cloud foundry, Cloudfoundry, HP Cloud Service, openstack, paas, Perl, PHP, python, stackato | 1 Response

PaaS Ecosystems–AppFog Unveils an Add-On Program. How Much on a PaaS Should be Core Functionality?

PaaS Ecosystems–AppFog Unveils an Add-On Program. How Much on a PaaS Should be Core Functionality?

By Ben Kepes on December 7, 2011

A growing theme amongst PaaS players is to develop an add-on program to give users of their platforms the ability to acquire and provision third party services that are already integrated with the core development environment. It’s a trend that Heroku for instance has followed for years – it allows

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged appfog, heroku, Lucas Carlson, newrelic, PHP, PHP Fog

OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS

OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS

By Ben Kepes on October 27, 2011

The other day Krish bemoaned the fact that PaaS is rapidly becoming homogenized as all players rapidly follow their competitors in rolling out features and languages. As Krish said; …[they] talk about differentiation in terms of user experience. But, ladies and gentlemen, I hear the same from every other PaaS

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Apache Tomcat, CloudComputing, java, paas, PHP, rackspace, rails, Ruby

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: PHPCloud, Zend's PHP PaaS Offering

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: PHPCloud, Zend’s PHP PaaS Offering

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 18, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged insights, paas, paasfuture, PHP, php cloud, php paas, phpcloud, platform, platform as a service, platform services, zend | 1 Response

JRuby for EngineYard Goes GA

JRuby for EngineYard Goes GA

By Ben Kepes on September 28, 2011

In another step towards PaaS provider Engine Yard becoming a fully featured multi language platform player, they are today announcing that JRuby on Engine Yard is entering general availability. Timed to coincide with next week’s JavaOne conferent, JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby language that Engine Yard initially supported. Using JRuby, Java developers […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged CloudComputing, engineyard, java, javaone, JRuby, PHP, Ruby

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Engine Yard Acquires Orchestra

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Engine Yard Acquires Orchestra

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 23, 2011

I am sure regular readers of this blog are convinced that PaaS is the future of Cloud Services. We are seeing this trend happening now with so much action on the PaaS front. Today Engine Yard (previous CloudAve coverage) reacted to the market trend and announced the acquisition of Orchestra, the Irish PHP PaaS company. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged acquisitions, briefs, engine yard, engineyard, m&a, orchestra, paas, paasfuture, PHP, php paas, rails | 2 Responses

WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux EC2 Micro Instance, For Free

WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux EC2 Micro Instance, For Free

By Adron Hall on March 29, 2011

I’ve been wanting to get a write up done for WordPress on AWS, the fact that it is free for a year, since they’ve released the free-tier many months ago. Well I finally got around to it, however it isn’t a write up. I went ahead and put the work in to produce a video […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged amazon, aws, ec2, how-to, linux, PHP, video, Web server, wordpress | 2 Responses

Importance of PHPFog's 1.8 Million Funding

Importance of PHPFog’s 1.8 Million Funding

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 12, 2011

PHPFog, the portland based startup trying to push PHP into the PaaS space, yesterday announced that they have raised $1.8 Million funding from Madrona Venture Group, First Round Capital, Founder’s Co-Op, and other prominent angel investors. PHPFog is currently in the private beta. This funding will help them add more developers and launch earlier than […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged appfog, briefs, cloud computing, paas, PHP, php cloud, php paas, phpfog | 5 Responses

Morph Labs Tweaks Their Offerings To Make It More Palatable To Enterprises

Morph Labs Tweaks Their Offerings To Make It More Palatable To Enterprises

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 20, 2010

MorphLabs, a company offering private cloud solutions to enterprises (see our previous coverage), today announced the release of mCloud for the enterprise. Essentially, it is a rebranding of their existing offering with some enhanced features that makes enterprise deployment easier. Using mCloud Controller for Enterprises, organizations can seamlessly deploy private cloud in their environment. According […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged enterprise cloud architecture, enterprises, morph, morphlabs, PHP, zend, zend server

Microsoft Azure Brings on Some Support for Open Source

Microsoft Azure Brings on Some Support for Open Source

By Dan Morrill on November 18, 2009

As Azure gets closer to its release date of 01 January 2010 – the biggest question is what kind of support can you get for open source systems or programs like PHP. With AWS (Amazon Web Services) you can get Linux and native PHP support, and you can do the same with Rack Space Cloud […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, CloudComputing, Cool Tools, java, Languages, microsoft, opensource, PHP, programming, Technology | 1 Response

Error Logs and Cloud Computing

Error Logs and Cloud Computing

By Dan Morrill on October 27, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Now that my two cloud servers have been up and running long enough for scanners, hackers and other folks to find them. What is interesting is seeing what kind of hacker activity the two cloud servers are seeing, and how they are standing up to being exposed on the internet. A bit […]

Posted in General | Tagged Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, data mine, linux, PHP, sad, Web server | 1 Response

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