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Of little clouds and big clouds, local clouds and global clouds

Of little clouds and big clouds, local clouds and global clouds

By Paul Miller on April 20, 2012

Image: NASA Amazon’s globe-encircling cloud infrastructure is compelling to many. From Virginia to California, from Ireland to Singapore, and from Japan to Brazil; wherever you find yourself there’s a local instance of the same familiar set of services. And, in all likelihood, Australia will soon be added to the list. For those primarily interested in just serving […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Open Source | Tagged api, cloud computing, Eduserv, engineyard, europe, European Union, gogrid, iaas, openstack, platform as a service, rails, Ruby, UK | 1 Response

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: 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

VMWare Disrupts PaaS Space With Cloud Foundry - An Analysis

VMWare Disrupts PaaS Space With Cloud Foundry – An Analysis

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 12, 2011

VMware (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced Cloud Foundry, its Open Platform as a Service product, at a special event in Palo Alto. Cloud Foundry is both hosted and available as open source. More interestingly, it can run on your laptop or a single server or 1000s of VMs or, even, hundreds of dedicated servers. Apart […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud computing, cloud foundry, Cloudfoundry, engine yard, federated clouds, federation, force.com, google app engine, insights, java, node.js, open source, opensource, paas, paasfuture, rails, salesforce.com, springsource, vmware | 16 Responses

Engine Yard Now Offers Free Option For New Users

Engine Yard Now Offers Free Option For New Users

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 5, 2011

Engine Yard (previous CloudAve coverage) finally pushed themselves into the freemium game today with the announcement that new users can try their AppCloud for 500 hours without even giving their credit card. This will let more developers to try out their PaaS offering before committing to them financially. After Heroku (see previous CloudAve coverage) got […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged briefs, engineyard, paas, rails, Ruby, Ruby on Rails

EngineYard Goes Upmarket with its Ruby PaaS

EngineYard Goes Upmarket with its Ruby PaaS

By Ben Kepes on June 3, 2010

Just the other day Krish posted about the new partnership between Apigee and Heroku the Ruby PaaS player. Hot on the heels of that announcement comes news that EngineYard are partnering with TerreMark to provide a more enterprise class Ruby PaaS. First some background – EngineYard already has AppCloud, a mid level Ruby PaaS offering […]

Posted in Design | Tagged appcloud, azure, engineyard, force.com, heroku, rails, xcloud | 1 Response

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