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Microsoft Does It Right And Oracle Claims They Are Right

Microsoft Does It Right And Oracle Claims They Are Right

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 8, 2012

This week saw cloud related announcements from two software behemoths from the traditional era, Microsoft and Oracle. Microsoft rebooted Windows Azure making it more palatable to modern day developers and started playing nice on the interoperability game. Oracle re-announced their public cloud strategy and, in the process, tried to convince users that they should see […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud cimputing, database as a service, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, insights, java as a service, microsoft, Oracle, oracle fusion, paas, platform, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms | 6 Responses

AppFog, Apprenda And Azure: The Future Of PaaS Is Getting Defined

AppFog, Apprenda And Azure: The Future Of PaaS Is Getting Defined

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 6, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged appfog, apprenda, azure, insights, lock-in, lockin, paas, paasfuture, platform, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, windowsazure | 4 Responses

Oracle PaaS Speculations

Oracle PaaS Speculations

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 4, 2012

Oracle has scheduled a webcast this Wednesday where their CEO, Larry Ellison, and President, Mark Hurd, are going to make some announcements regarding Oracle Cloud and platinum support services. There are widespread expectations that Oracle will talk about their PaaS offerings, especially their pricing strategy around Java Cloud Service and Database Cloud Service. PCWorld has […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged briefs, Oracle, oracle fusion, paas, platform as a service, Platforms | 1 Response

CloudBees Adds HA To Jenkins Enterprise Edition

CloudBees Adds HA To Jenkins Enterprise Edition

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 21, 2012

CloudBees (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS company behind the Open Source Jenkins project, today announced that they are offering a high availability plugin to their Jenkins Enterprise product. They made this announcement at the Jenkins User Conference at New York City. This plugin will help in better uptime and improved governance/oversight along with increased productivity. […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged briefs, Cloudbees, Enterprise, HA, High Availability, jenkins, paas, platform, platform as a service, Platforms | 1 Response

IBM PureApplication Systems: It Is Not PaaS. Period. But

IBM PureApplication Systems: It Is Not PaaS. Period. But

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 3, 2012

IBM Impact has been going on at Las Vegas and the buzz around the event is IBM PureSystems. I see a lot of excitement around PureSystems both from IBM side and their customer side. However, I also see some confusion around the messaging. IBM has been sending ambiguous signals around IBM PureApplication Systems which is […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged 2012, IBM, ibm impact, ibm pureapplication systems, ibm puresystems, ibmimpact, insights, notPaas, paas, platform, platform as a service, platform cloud, platform services, Platforms | 5 Responses

Red Hat Releases The Source Code For Openshift

Red Hat Releases The Source Code For Openshift

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 30, 2012

Red Hat today announced that they are releasing the source code of their Openshift PaaS platform. Red Hat announced that Openshift is open source at the time of release but they didn’t release the source code till now. There are two reasons for this delay: Since Openshift came through Makara acquisition, it is important for […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged briefs, opens source, openshift, opensource, paas, platform, platform as a service, Platforms, redhat | 1 Response

CloudFoundry On OpenStack: PistonCloud Makes It A Reality

CloudFoundry On OpenStack: PistonCloud Makes It A Reality

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 30, 2012

Remember BOSH? The open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and life cycle management of very large scale instances of Cloud Foundry, announced a few weeks back? They initially released it with support for VMware infrastructure and Amazon EC2. Since it was open source, there were expectations that others will build the necessary interface for […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged briefs, Cloudfoundry, iaas, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, open source, opensource, openstack, paas, pistoncomputing, platform, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, vmware | 4 Responses

dotCloud Ramps Up Their Offering

dotCloud Ramps Up Their Offering

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 28, 2012

dotCloud, San Francisco based platform services company letting you build your own platform stack across three data centers, yesterday announced that they are ramping up their platform stack support with support for web sockets, MongoDB 2.0 and vertical scaling. After being relatively quiet for sometime (at least, I didn’t hear much about them), they are […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged briefs, dotcloud, mongodb, paasfuture, platform, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, websockets | 1 Response

Heroku hstore: Key Value Store Inside Relational Database

Heroku hstore: Key Value Store Inside Relational Database

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 16, 2012

Heroku (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS company under Salesforce, announced recently that they will be supporting key value store inside their Postgres database instances. Named hstore, it takes advantage of Postgres’ extensibility. Ever since MySQL was gobbled up by Oracle, Postgres has been getting additional developer love from the community. I am not saying that […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged briefs, heroku, hstore, nosql, paas, platform, platform services, Platforms, rdbms | 1 Response

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: AppFog Adds Ruby And Node.js Support

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: AppFog Adds Ruby And Node.js Support

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 13, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged appfog, briefs, node.js, paas, paasfuture, platform as a service, platform services, Platforms, polygot, Ruby

Acquia Gets Another Round Of Funding: Commercial Open Source Is Still Strong

Acquia Gets Another Round Of Funding: Commercial Open Source Is Still Strong

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 22, 2011

Acquia (previous CloudAve coverage), the commercial company behind open source Drupal content management software, announced the completion of Series D round of funding worth $15 Million Dollars. This round was funded by Tenaya Capital along with significant follow up participation from their existing investors, Northbridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. Acquia will tap into this […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged acquia, application software, briefs, CMS, Content management software, drupal, funding, open source, opensource, paas, Platforms, saas

Soccer, Fail Whales and APIs

Soccer, Fail Whales and APIs

By Derek Pilling on June 30, 2010

I played a good bit of soccer as a kid and even more in college. I mostly played defensive positions. One of the things I most appreciate about the game is that the smallest of errors can have game-changing impact. As a defensive player, an errant pass in the mid-field or a moment out of […]

Posted in General | Tagged APIs, cloud, defense, Internet advertising infrastructure, mission critical, payments, Platforms, soccer, voice, World Cup

Platforms: Of Governance and Taxes

Platforms: Of Governance and Taxes

By Derek Pilling on June 14, 2010

I like analogies. This week, Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures wrote a thoughtful post based on an analogy between software powered platforms and governments. Bob Warfield of the SmoothSpan Blog did a follow-up post claiming that application developers should seek platforms that act like Switzerland; something Warfield has apparently been saying since 2007. The […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged application developer, facebook, governance, Platforms, taxes, twitter

Twitter is No Longer a Platform

Twitter is No Longer a Platform

By Derek Pilling on May 25, 2010

Twitter no longer deserves the label “platform”. There, I said it. Its recent decision to lock out third-party ad networks, combined with its clear move in to the edge application space fundamentally alter what Twitter is. It is no longer a platform for application developers to productize around core stream functionality and monetize the edge […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged Platforms, twitter, Uncategorized

When Platforms Collide; Mobile and Payments

When Platforms Collide; Mobile and Payments

By Derek Pilling on January 22, 2010

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post that covered my areas of investment interest for 2010. Three of the areas I find most interesting are the mobile ecosystem and the payments sector and the theme of “platform” business models. You can find that post here. The natural question I’ve since been asked is: “What […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Mobile | Tagged mobile, payments, Platforms | 1 Response

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