Breaking: Savvis to buy AppFog
With AppFog, Savvis will get a Cloud Foundry-based Platform as a Service to run atop its own VSphere or vCloud Director-based infrastructure. Read more »
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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 business opportunities for technologies built around the emerging market sectors of mobile and cloud computing. These technologies and the companies creating with them will form the future of cloud security over the next several years. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Google takes on Parse with new service for mobile-app backends
Google has announced a new service called Mobile Backend Starter that lets Android developers create and launch mobile apps on Google’s cloud with just a few clicks. Read more »
Software AG wants to make app development easy for business users with Live software
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Looking to help people with little programming experience build out their own applications, Software AG is releasing its own Platform as a Service following its acquisition of LongJump. Read more »
Wal-Mart gets PaaS and social software chops through OneOps, Tasty Labs buys
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@WalmartLabs has picked up OneOps and Tasty Labs, which will enable rapid application development and social applications. The buys make sense with Wal-Mart trying to offer rich experiences that best other online retailers. Read more »
Heroku says PostGIS support enables smarter mobile app development
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Everyone’s trying to add geographic data to mobile apps. Heroku says its embrace of PostGIS 2.0 will help devs do that faster and easier. Read more »
AppFog drops Rackspace support
So much for running your AppFog apps on any cloud: The PaaS provider is dumping Rackspace support completely this week. Read more »
Heroku comes to Europe, but data protection issues remain
The platform-as-a-service outfit has taken its first non-U.S. region out of private beta. However, although it runs out of Ireland, some personal data may still be routed through the U.S. Read more »
Salesforce.com and Rackspace gear up for mobile developers
Industry giants are adding more development and platform goodies for mobile app developers. This may have the more targeted MBaaS providers a little perplexed. Read more »
Exclusive: Cumulogic snags seed money from Crunchfund
New seed funding brings total investment in the cloud services platform provider to about $1 million, says Cumulogic CEO Michael Soby. Read more »
What if your cloud dashboard isn’t telling the truth? Hint: It ain’t good
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Many businesses already get the heebie jeebies when it comes to deploying workloads to the cloud. They have to trust their provider and the metrics it provides. That’s why the Heroku-Rap Genius kerfuffle is important. Read more »
For sale from Pivotal Initiative: Cloud Foundry
The new VMware-EMC spinoff has started selling Cloud Foundry PaaS software and support and opened up the effort to outside committers. Read more »
PaaSes loving PaaSes: CloudBees offers Cloud Foundry integration
So you want to build your software in CloudBees but want to run it elsewhere? With new integration, you can put that application on Cloud Foundry (as well as Google App Engine.) Read more »
Cloud Foundry faces fear of forking
Forking of open-source projects can be good or bad. Developers love freedom of choice but big customers fear lack of compatilbility. In either case the prospect of a Cloud Foundry fork is worth examining. Read more »
Single-language no more: Apprenda adds Java to its .NET-centric platform
Apprenda is now embracing Java as well as .NET which could e good news for corporations like JPMorganChase that seek to extend the life of thousands of in-house applications. Read more »
Is your PaaS composable or contextual? (Hint: the answer matters)
In his latest post on next-generation systems design, James Urquhart discusses the different types of PaaS offerings and why it matters that some are composable and others are contextual. Read more »
Hey devs, need some hand holding? Heroku adds premium consulting services for you
So you’re building an important application on Heroku’s Platform-as-a-Service but need some help configuring it? Now you can now get that. For a fee. Read more »
New Apprenda exec to boost enterprise PaaS push
Are companies really ready to entrust their productivity applications to a PaaS? Apprenda says yes and brought on a new VP to push that message. Read more »
Engine Yard vet starts Cloud Foundry consultancy
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Dr. Nic Williams has left Engine Yard to promote the use of the rival Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service. Read more »
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The fourth quarter of 2012 in cloud
The last quarter of 2012 saw the rise of cloud-based databases, the cloud awakening of software giants such as HP, and many cloud outages that have left question marks. Enterprises found more IT dollars, and they will focus on the cloud for much of that spending. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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How direct-access solutions can speed up cloud adoption
Startups and enterprises alike face barriers when it comes to cloud adoption. This includes security, speed of access to cloud resources, and runaway network costs. However, multiple solutions for direct access are being provided to address this issue for companies big and small. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
PaaS not cheap enough? AppFog has a deal for you!
How low can PaaS pricing go? AppFog says it’s cutting the price of the paid version of its polyglot, multi-cloud PaaS in half for developers. That’s great for developers, but will it boost corporate adoption? Read more »
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Cloud computing 2013: how to navigate without a map
The way the industry will use cloud-computing technology in 2013 will require following the existing adoption patterns and trends into the New Year. Those trends include the rise of standards, big data’s role in the cloud, industry-specific clouds, security, and more. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Apprenda gets the hybrid cloud religion
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Apprenda, a true believer in private Platform as a Service, is embracing the hybrid cloud with its latest release. CEO Sinclair Schuller said many companies are ready to test out at least some workloads in a public cloud. Read more »
New Cloud Foundry app validates cloud portability
One hurdle to corporate adoption of PaaSes is customer concern about being locked into one vendor’s platform. A new Cloud Foundry app will let them, in real time, see which of several Cloud Foundry PaaSes will run their workloads. Read more »
Oracle gets a piece of PaaS with Engine Yard investment
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It’s probably not a huge investment, especially by Oracle’ s usual standards, but the database giant has bought a minority stake in Engine Yard, the PHP, Ruby and Node.js Platform as a Service. The stake gives Oracle a better story — sort of — in PaaS. Read more »
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The future of India’s IT services
India’s major tech firms have become competitive enterprise outsourcers and systems integrators on a global scale. Firms such as Cognizant and Tata Consultancy Services are looking for technology to provide the next competitive advantages in the market. The cloud provides that opportunity on several levels. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Examining the rise of crowd labor platforms in 2012
Crowd labor is outsourced information work that can be provisioned automatically. It’s ideally, inexpensive, on demand, and elastic. Platforms providing such services are on the rise in 2012, promising customers lower labor costs in the short term and higher-quality output in the long term. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Google App Engine is ready for primetime says Reddit/Hipmunk co-founder
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Steven Huffman, who co-founded Reddit and then Hipmunk, used Google App Engine to teach novice programmers web development on Udacity. He is impressed with it as a real-life development platform. And Google really, really wants you to know that. Read more »
What “unbelievable” new services does Amazon have on tap?
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What sort of amazing cloud services could Amazon have up its sleeve? Werner Vogels ain’t saying anything in detail but here are five things to watch out for where the public cloud services giant is concerned. Read more »
PaaS adoption is the same everywhere (at least in the U.S. and Europe)
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Platform as a Service adoption, contrary to conventional wisdom, is happening as fast in Europe as in the US, according to an expert panel of PaaS vendors speaking at GigaOM Structure Europe on Wednesday. Read more »
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Cloud and data third-quarter 2012
The usual suspects Amazon and VMware made significant announcements in cloud in the third quarter, while Hadoop remained the talk of the town in big data. Emerging trends in software-defined networking and flash storage stirred up lots of M&A and venture investment in the quarter. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Examining open hybrid cloud options for the enterprise
A major cloud trend over the past decade has been open source, but at present there is no one standard all providers obey. But anyone looking for a longer-term alternative to AWS now has two exciting new prospects: OpenStack and OpenShift. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Platform as a Service in 2012
The PaaS market is predicted to reach $20.1 billion in 2014. Huge brands occupy this space, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce.com, as well as newer startups. As the market grows, watch for more consolidation, tighter integration with IaaS services, and more features. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Cloud services startup Tier 3 nets $10M in new funding
Tier 3, a startup which is attacking the enterprise platform as a service (PaaS) market, just netted $10 million in new funding in a round led by Intel Capital, according to newly filed SEC documents. Read more »
Salesforce pushes Heroku into big biz with full Java stack support
Heroku is morphing from what was a Ruby-focused PaaS for web developers to a fully Java-supportive PaaS for big business. At least that’s what Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff hopes as he integrates Heroku — purchased in 2010 — more tightly into the company’s overall platform. Read more »
Apprenda seeks to make private PaaS more practical
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Apprenda, hopes to make private PaaSes more attractive to companies by giving developers access to a public instance of its Paas to experiment with, then pull in house, according to company CEO Sinclair Schuller. Read more »
Will Go be the new go-to programming language?
The Go language is gaining momentum among PaaS and IaaS vendors, says Apcera founder and CEO Derek Collison. Research shows the language gaining ground, although it hasn’t cracked the top 20. JavaScript and Java remain top dogs among overall programing languages. Read more »
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Emerging trends in the non-relational database market
Observers of database technology should look closely at the non-relational database market to see where the most interesting growth lies in the world of applied information storage and retrieval. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Appfog buys Nodester to strengthen its Node.js bench
With Nodester, the polyglot PaaS provider gets deeper and broader Node.js support and access to even more Node.js developers. Next up? J2EE, Go and Perl support, says Appfog CEO Lucas Carlson. Read more »
