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New Apprenda exec to boost enterprise PaaS push
Developers love Platforms as a Service. The big question is whether big companies are ready to embrace platform as a service for real deployment is a lingering debate, however. Apprenda, a...
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Hey devs, need some hand holding? Heroku adds premium consulting services for...
You need help scoping out a new architecture for an application? Or maybe some for-real 24 X 7 support for that application once it’s built? Now Heroku is offering a premium tier of paid services you...
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Is your PaaS composable or contextual? (Hint: the answer matters)
I want to touch base on a topic that is subtle, but has a profound impact on the way anti-fragile IT systems will evolve and in what Platform-as-a-Service offerings companies will choose to use: the...
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Single-language no more: Apprenda adds Java to its .NET-centric platform
Apprenda is a bit of anomaly. It’s a tech company based not in Silicon Valley or Redmond or Cambridge but outside Albany, N.Y. While rivals tout the appeal of public Platform as a Service (PaaS),...
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Cloud Foundry faces fear of forking
The rumblings have been around for weeks but now they’re breaking the surface: Cloud Foundry, the open source platform-as-a-service framework faces a bit of an insurrection. Several vendors, such as...
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PaaSes loving PaaSes: CloudBees offers Cloud Foundry integration
The lines are blurring in the Platform-as-a-Service world. It used to be that if you developed in a given PaaS, you probably deployed in that PaaS. But that’s changing. For example, CloudBees, the...
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For sale from Pivotal Initiative: Cloud Foundry
The Pivotal Initiative is now selling software and support subscriptions for the Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) and is opening up governance of that effort to bring outside voices into the...
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What if your cloud dashboard isn’t telling the truth? Hint: It ain’t good
What happens if you can’t believe your own dashboard? Whether it’s for your car, your plane or your computing cloud, it’s not a good thing if the console that’s supposed to tell you what’s really...
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Exclusive: Cumulogic snags seed money from Crunchfund
Cumulogic, the erstwhile Java Platform-as-a-Service company that is morphing into a broader cloud platform services provider, has new seed funding from Crunchfund that it will use to build out its...
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Salesforce.com and Rackspace gear up for mobile developers
If there was any doubt that mobile development is where the action is, witness two pieces of news. First, Rackspace, the infrastructure-as-a-service and hosting company, is launching a pre-packaged...
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Heroku comes to Europe, but data protection issues remain
Heroku has opened up a European region to complement its existing U.S. region, in order to cut down on the latency experienced by customers running their apps from the platform for the benefit of...
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AppFog drops Rackspace support
AppFog, the Platform as a Service that pledged to run your applications on (almost) any cloud, is now one cloud down. As of May 2, the company is “turning off” the Rackspace infrastructure option. An...
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Heroku says PostGIS support enables smarter mobile app development
In case you hadn’t noticed, mobile app development is where the action is. It’s why Facebook just bought Parse, and why Amazon, Rackspace and Salesforce.com are frantically bolstering their mobile app...
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Wal-Mart gets PaaS and social software chops through OneOps, Tasty Labs buys
It’s clear that Wal-Mart Stores wants to stay on top as a major online retailer in the United States and abroad, as it takes steps to turn stores into fulfillment centers and bolster its virtual...
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Software AG wants to make app development easy for business users with Live...
Software AG, the German software company, wants to make it easy for people who can’t write code to plan, build and run their own business applications, just as people with programming chops can build...
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Google takes on Parse with new service for mobile-app backends
If you’re an Android developer, Google has a question for you: Would you rather give your money to Facebook and Amazon Web Services, or to us? If it’s the latter, Google introduced on Monday a new...
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Cloud security market landscape, 2013–2017
Cyber threats are now a critical issue affecting the national security of nation countries worldwide. At the same time, the IT world is witnessing a wave of new innovation, and there are numerous...
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Breaking: Savvis to buy AppFog
Savvis is about to buy AppFog, a Platform-as-a-Service startup based in Portland, Ore., according to several sources. Savvis, a data center operator, was acquired itself two years ago by CenturyLink...
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PayPal now builds products on its internal PaaS
Platform as a Service (PaaS) has gotten lots of attention usage from developers looking for easy ways to build and run applications. PayPal sees lots of value in the PaaS model, too. But rather than...
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Google lets developers try building applications with on-premise version of...
Google is looking to help more companies develop applications in the Google App Engine way — except on companies’ own servers, not on Google gear. Toward that end, Google has been working with Red Hat...
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