AppFog and now Tier 3, CenturyLink is on a Roll!
I feel like I’m being followed by CenturyLink. I shouldn’t be surprised, they should follow me! 😮 But faux paranoia joking aside, it is interesting to see them snapping up two key players in the Cloud Foundry space that have built .NET support into it at an enterprise level. They’re obviously intent on capturing that […]
SITREP – Stoking Iron Foundry, Thor Hammering & Joining… ?
What have I been up to? Here’s a quick recap. You may want to get involved with some of these projects! Iron Foundry & Tier 3 Web Fabric Back when I left the kick ass team at Russell Investments in Seattle I stepped directly to bat as team lead at Tier 3. My job, get a […]
Why CloudFoundry Core Is (Not) Important?
On Tuesday, VMware’s CloudFoundry project announced the availability of CloudFoundry Core, a baseline to test if an application is compatible to CloudFoundry’s core open source release. The CloudFoundry Core is based on a set of components that forms the baseline for the definition of core. Right now, they have limited set of programming languages and […]
I Can Talk About It Finally! => Tier 3 Web Fabric Platform as a Service (PaaS)
A couple months ago I shifted gears and started working for Tier 3 on a number of projects. I made this decision for a few reasons: 1. I’m a huge advocate of PaaS (Platform as a Service) technologies. I like what PaaS enables and what it eliminates. Matter of fact I’d say I’m a bull …
Tier 3’s Approach To PaaS
From time to time we add videos of services and products offered by vendors. Yesterday, I attended a local event where Jared Wray, CTO of Tier 3 (previous CloudAve coverage), talked about their approach to PaaS. I had my video camera handy and recorded it to share with public. Here is the video of his presentation. […]
Wrapped Up @ The Fort of Awesome, on to the Iron Foundry, and new Tiers…
New update and bits coming up in the near term. I wrapped up my work with AppFog’s Fort of Awesome and am now putting together blog articles & technical material for New Relic these days. They’re an extremely great company with an absolutely stellar team. However you may be asking, “Adron, YOU WRITE CODE ALL […]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Tier3 Adds .NET Support To CloudFoundry By Forking It
Today Tier3, Bellevue based enterprise cloud hosting provider, announced that they are adding .NET support to CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) by forking it. With this, they are essentially pushing VMware’s PaaS solution into Windows shops who might be interested in using an open source alternative. Remember it is not a mono implementation but .NET based one of […]
