Comments on: What next for Cloud Foundry?

By: runsignup

runsignup — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:32:36 +0000

Lots of piece parts in Pivotal. It will be interesting to see where they put their resources and energy. Will there be many mini-divisions, or will they try to have a single, cohesive strategy and offering? Will they be driven by revenue and profit goals, diverting management attention from non-revenue sources? It is looking like a ~$200M revenue company, and where will the priorities be?

By: Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:49:38 +0000

Big question (for me anyway) is can the honchos at CloudFoundry (hi James!) keep the ecosystem together long enough to give some clarity to their intentions around CloudFoundry or do one of the ecosystem partners (AppFog? Stackato? Tier3?), concerned about the mothership’s intentions, fork the product now.

The ecosystem needs vibrancy, certainty and clarity – they’ve not got that yet and people are worried. Oh and the minor fact that enterprise adoption is taking longer than we’d all like is another blow.

That said, PaaS is the way of the future and Cloud Foundry should be able to leverage that fact, a very smart initiative and a strong ecosystem to be one of the most important pillars in this brave new PaaS-fuelled world…

By: Diane Mueller

Diane Mueller — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:29:10 +0000

In 2013, look for more more cloud providers to move up the stack and add value with a PaaS offering much like @HPCloud has done with Stackato and more value-add’s like CloudElements1, Appsecute & CloudAbility extending PaaS functionality to meet the demands of monitoring multiple PaaS deployments http://activestate.com/stackato