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 APIs are the coding interfaces that enable developers to create third-party apps, plug-ins, and add-ons that extend the functionality and potential of existing Software-as-a-Service products. Pedro's comments reframe the entire API industry and, if pursued, would fundamentally alter th...Apr. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,823 |
 If you were to ask EMC or VMware whom they consider their major threat and competition you’d be easily forgiven for being mistaken to think it was NetApp, HP or offerings such as Hyper-V. The current cloud era has undoubtedly been spearheaded by the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook...Apr. 5, 2013 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,335 |
 If you were to ask EMC or VMware whom they consider their major threat and competition you’d be easily forgiven for being mistaken to think it was NetApp, HP or offerings such as Hyper-V. With many terming us to now be in the third era of corporate computing, with mainframe and the cli...Apr. 2, 2013 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,833 |
 "We are excited to be able to offer the great benefits of our OpenShift PaaS to city governments through our work with Code for America,” said Ashesh Badani, global leader, Cloud and OpenShift, Red Hat, as RH announced a collaboration with Code for America (CfA), a non-profit organizat...Mar. 22, 2013 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,556 |
 Recently Amazon announced the availability of Redshift Data warehouse as a Service as a beta offering. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing busine...Mar. 14, 2013 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,861 |
 As already described in the previous few articles NIST defines three different service models for the cloud - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. However if you look at the Wikipedia article about cloud computing you will notice that there are quite a few more "as-a-service" models mentioned there. L...Mar. 8, 2013 09:15 AM EST Reads: 2,095 |
 The growth of cloud services for business has been a hot topic for years now, but 2012 was the year when the cloud went from market hype to mainstream deployment. Most organizations have now adopted a private cloud of some kind, but caution is preventing them from taking full advantage...Feb. 27, 2013 09:45 AM EST Reads: 2,531 |
 This article argues whether the generic paas offerings from established giants today are not disruptive enough and at best they are incremental.
Change. Continuous change is what we have witnessed, since Computing began way back in 1960s, we have had many transformational waves on ho...Feb. 9, 2013 04:00 PM EST Reads: 2,096 |
 Anyone who has moved houses knows there is nothing worse than hauling boxes and boxes of stuff, only to unpack it all on the other end and discover that the beloved furniture and knick-knacks do not work in the new place. Portability is a tricky concept, and moving applications to the ...Feb. 1, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,821 |
 For the real-world enterprise, cloud computing promises flexibility, efficiency and convenience. But those attractions mask realistic potential risks to data integrity, privacy and oversight. And that's enough to make even the earliest of early adopters hesitate to move to the cloud.
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 Over the last decade, Business Process Outsourcing has become an enterprise standard way of delegating the non-core processes to third-party service providers, which resulted in cost controls and business efficiency. This BPO industry has further matured by providing innovation to the ...Nov. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,996 |
 Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) represents a complete preintegrated platform offering for the development and operation of general purpose business applications. A fully preintegrated and standardized platform - offered in a multitenant mode as a managed service - means much less manual e...Sep. 17, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,210 |
 Let’s recap: In the past two weeks we have covered the following material: Who I am What my background is Why I love everything IT What the Cloud is What the Public … Last week I ended with a question: How does the Cloud affect me as a consumer, as a business owner and as someone...Sep. 4, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,254 |
 There are way too many PaaS options around, so AppFog has enveloped one of them and will suck up its technology.
It’s acquired Nodester, the open source PaaS for Node.js, which it says grew 40% in the last 30 days.
AppFog is using Nodester’s intellectual property to collaborate w...Aug. 29, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,178 |
 As observed in my earlier articles, the Java EE PaaS portfolio is gaining in strength each day, with support from major players such as IBM, Oracle, VMWare, Redhat , Google and Amazon.
However unlike the Microsoft > .NET Framework > Azure PaaS equation where there is just one version ...Aug. 8, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,206 |
 This post describes a prototype implementation of a simple PAAS built on the Hadoop YARN framework and the key findings from the experiment. While there are some advantages to using Hadoop YARN, there is at least one unsolved issue that would be difficult to overcome at this point.
H...Jul. 18, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,915 |
 At the WPC, Microsoft has announced that it is now bringing a subset of Windows Azure features to Windows Server to enable hosters offer Cloud capabilities to their customers. With Cloud competing with hosting business, is there a scope for the traditional hosters to sustain their busi...Jul. 18, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,827 |
 After an initial sluggish start, where Microsoft Windows Azure was the only player, we started to see increased support for Platform as a Service from major vendors starting with VMware vFabric and Red Hat OpenShift.
However, there was still a void in the PaaS space as the major playe...Jul. 3, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,911 |
 For the last two years, enterprise mobility has had a high place on the technology agenda of most companies. However, the mobile enterprise remains a highly complex and expensive endeavor that can only be afforded by a small group of organizations. Even more importantly, the enterprise...Jun. 25, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,471 |
 I am the track chair of the CloudExpo Bootcamp this year at Jacob Javits Center in NYC from June 11-14. You can check the agenda here.
As an invitee of the track chair, you can register for free (with the bootcamp option) at www.cloudcomputingexpo.com with "robustcloud" as the promo...Jun. 8, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,141 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under two weeks away, what better time to remind you in greater detail of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...?
We have technical and strategy ...May. 31, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,775 |
 If your organization already uses virtualized infrastructure, you are well on your way to providing IT as a Service. But as businesses demand faster results in today’s competitive market, organizations look to gain more benefits from cloud computing than just virtualized infrastructure...May. 23, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,732 |
 CollabNet went into public beta Monday with a strategic new enterprise-
grade development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) called CloudForge so
distributed teams can manage and scale cloud-based development using a
broad set of tools, application frameworks and deployment clouds.
It...May. 2, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,183 |
 PaaS is nothing but uploading your small kernel of code with business logic and the PaaS service provider will run that code on allocated computing and storage instances. The aim of PaaS is to let the developers concentrate on developing their code rather than creating and maintaining ...May. 1, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 7,435 |
 This is a continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS. This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning a Software as a Service meant for a specific industry is stressed for wider atte...Apr. 20, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,710 |
 Cloud Computing , more specifically Platform as a Service (PaaS) is changing the business app developer demographic forever. Or should I say that, PaaS is reviving or giving a new lease of life for productivity focused business developers. The kind that existed during the Client-Server...Apr. 18, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,159 |
 There are a number of the Cloud Application Platforms out there. And, that makes the life of CIO difficult in choosing the right PaaS for his enterprise. This post takes a logical approach to this challenge by examining the key enterprise needs and motivations.Apr. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,415 |
 Only ten weeks to go! Time for an alphabetical summary of the many leading-edge themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) - being held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Convention Center in New York City and co-located with Big Data Expo 2012 New York ...Apr. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,629 |
 You can't imagine any business application without a business logic/rule. Yet, business rules are the most abused term and least understood. Everybody knows the importance of it, but sadly everyone has a cliched understanding. In this post, I set out to articulate business rules in gen...Apr. 3, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,310 |
 There has been a lot of press around the notion of Platform as a Service (PaaS). It seems like a week doesn't go by without an announcement about a PaaS platform. In this article, I will try to explore the various types of PaaS platforms and distinguish between them.
Metadata PaaS pla...Mar. 21, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,643 |
 We’re seeing a lot of changes in the IT landscape. Oracle buying its way into the Cloud, AMD wants in on the server business, Dell is no longer a PC company, and some legacy players are learning about the Cloud market the hard way (see: Harris Scraps Secure Public Cloud). Harris claims...Mar. 9, 2012 05:15 AM EST Reads: 4,303 |
 "We decided in January 2012 to create Appsembler," said Appsembler CEO Nate Aune as it was announced that his company has integrated ActiveState's Stackato application platform technology into its namesake hosted-service offering for Web applications in the cloud.
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 This is Part 2 in my series of post on the topic of PaaS (Platform as a Service) and in this post I have covered why PaaS for enterprises is more than just DevOps and a larger "technology convergence" in the core "Software Engineering" area is leading this perfect storm called PaaS. Th...Mar. 6, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 3,955 |
 ActiveState, whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, today announced the general availability of Stackato 1.0. Stackato is the application platform for creating a private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) using any language on any stack on any cloud...Feb. 29, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,967 |
 CumuLogic is a cloud computing company founded by Sun Microsystems’ alumni. The company has developed a Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) software that makes it easier and faster to develop and deploy Java applications (apps) in the cloud. By automating the management of the runtime en...Feb. 7, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 4,655 |
 One of the first things I learned when I started talking with clients about their plans for platform-based clouds is that there is no such thing as a ‘simple application environment.’ Even for the most basic, CRUD-style applications, you can count on there being numerous different comp...Feb. 6, 2012 04:30 AM EST Reads: 2,209 |
 "Categories" are supposed to help. But sometimes they hurt. When they help, they reduce confusion. When they hurt, they cause confusion. Helpful categories is one of those "Best Practices" that is high on my list of important things. Gartner's "iPaaS" confuses.
When properly appl...Feb. 2, 2012 05:45 AM EST Reads: 2,733 |
 I’ve been looking at the PaaS space for some time now. I spent some time with the good folks at CloudBees (naturally), and have had many conversations on CloudFoundry, Azure, and more with vendors, customers and other cloudy folks.
Krishnan posted a very good article over on CloudAve...Jan. 30, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 3,345 |
 In an application deployed directly on IaaS, you know and control everything about the database; in a SaaS application you know little and control nothing.
But how does it work in PaaS?
Since a PaaS is essentially a container that runs application code, and virtually every applicat...Jan. 4, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 4,974 |
 Open source platform as a service (PaaS) platforms are one of the most exciting topics in the software industry nowadays. Following the $212M acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce.com, we’ve seen how, in a matter of months, platforms like dotCloud, VMWare’s Cloud Foundry or Red Hat’s Ope...Jan. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 6,241 |
