Pivotal, the cloud computing and big data company that spun out from EMC and VMware in 2013, is open sourcing its entire…
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Apprenda teams with Piston to gain OpenStack support
Apprenda, which started out as a .NET-and-Windows-focused Platform-as-a-Service but has since opened up to other languages and technologies, continues to broaden its horizon. A new…
Read MoreCloud Foundry Foundation brings in reinforcements
The Cloud Foundry Foundation, established in February, will get a new marquee name Tuesday with [company]Intel[/company] coming aboard as a Platinum member. Other companies, including [company]Akamai[/company],…
Read MoreHP’s Helion OpenStack is here
If you want an HP-branded OpenStack or an HP-branded Cloud Foundry, you are in luck: Both are available today with support from friends Docker, New Relic, MongoDB.…
Read MorePivotal nabs OpenStack co-creator and Piston co-founder Joshua McKenty
Joshua McKenty, one of the early architects of OpenStack while at NASA, and a co-founder of OpenStack startup Piston, has joined Pivotal at field CTO for Cloud Foundry. He hopes to make Cloud Foundry, running on OpenStack, into what NASA envisioned several years ago.…
Read MoreApcera scores big, undisclosed, investment from Ericsson for its enterprise IT platform
Apcera attacks a huge problem -- promising to give big companies a means to develop, deploy and manage workloads with compliance and policy baked in. Now it has new funding to back that play.…
Read MorePivotal Cloud Foundry jumps on the mobile dev bandwagon
The week in cloud: The word of late is if you're not doing "mobile" you're not doing development. So Pivotal Cloud Foundry, like every other PaaS, is adding mobile-specific services.…
Read MoreSAP throws in with the OpenStack crowd
Business applications giant SAP is now an official sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation. Not sure what took it so long.…
Read MorePivotal adds new enterprise-y features to its Cloud Foundry implementation
At the Pivotal Summit, company trots out new dashboards and a way to achieve better redundancy for its version of Cloud Foundry.…
Read MoreHP builds an OpenStack of its own and layers indemnification on top
HP joins Red Hat, Canonical, Suse, Cisco, Mirantis, Rackspace, Cloudscaling et al. in building its own OpenStack distribution and will indemnify HP Helion customers and service providers against IP claims.…
Read MoreWhy user experience and ecosystem will rule the cloud
It's easy enough to start offering a cloud platform, but doing so successfully is a lot more difficult. James Urquhart explains how Amazon Web Services, Cloud Foundry and others are capitalizing on great user experiences and great ecosystems.…
Read MoreCloud Foundry Foundation nets 8 new members
Accenture, BNY Mellon, Capgemini, Ericsson, GE, Intel, NTT and Verizon officially joined the foundation pushing Cloud Foundry platform for big data applications.…
Read MoreRed Hat sticks with OpenShift PaaS with new online store
Red Hat is getting into the retail business -- kind of -- with a new online marketplace for third party products to run on its OpenShift PaaS.…
Read MorePro tip: How to learn to love the cloud (and not worry when it shoots you through the head)
The Structure Show: Superstar engineer Mark Lucovsky, who started out writing low-level code and then moved up the stack to services and cloud, talks about why he's now building apps on someone else's cloud.…
Read MoreIs Red Hat now the boss of OpenStack? Should it be?
The week in cloud: Was the Cloud Foundry Foundation set up to promote the open-source PaaS or to thwart Red Hat OpenShift? Or a little bit of both? Discuss.…
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SAP and Rackspace jump on the Cloud Foundry bandwagon
SAP's participation gives Cloud Foundry more enterprise cred while Rackspace's entry could ease IaaS-PaaS confusion between OpenStack and Cloud Foundry.…
Read MoreIntel goes a little cloud crazy and why Pivotal matters to the manufacturers of the world
Web companies already have shiny infrastructure but much of the industrial universe -- companies that actually make and ship physical goods, need help with this stuff. For them, Pivotal is here to help, says SVP Hugh E. Williams on this week's Structure Show.…
Read MoreCenturyLink embraces Bosh to bring Cloud Foundry to its public cloud
Bosh, the toolchain that promises to propagate Cloud Foundry everywhere, gains another adherent in CenturyLink cloud.…
Read MoreCloud Foundry, aiming for ubiquity, sets sights on Google Cloud
Cloud Foundry wants its platform-as-a-service to run on all the clouds. It's on AWS and Openstack now, Next up: Google Cloud.…
Read MoreOpenStack: is it a PaaS killer? The week in cloud
As the latest release of the open-source cloud infrastructure debuted, controversy swirled anew. Will OpenStack kill third-party PaaSes or vice versa?…
Read More3 reasons why VMware won’t be impactful in the public cloud space
VMware won’t go broke anytime soon, considering its huge market share and interest in the technology. However, if the company is aiming for the larger public cloud market, it may have to get good at what it is not good at now, or stick with things inside of enterprises.…
Read MoreVMware touts its cloud case, partners grumble: the week in cloud
VMworld continued to preach its software-defined data center message, unveiling network and storage virtualization tools and annoying its network and storage partners. Coopetition reigns supreme.…
Read MoreOld pals Cloud Foundry and Piston Cloud collaborate on PaaS/IaaS integration
Piston's enterprise-focused OpenStack is apparently first among equals -- Cloud Foundry picks it as first OpenStack distro to be integrated with its PaaS.…
Read MoreTier 3 says its new cloud is useable by mere mortals
It's well and good for a cloud to offer tons of compute, storage and networking services, but tying them together in a way that non-techies can use them, is value in and of itself, says Tier 3.…
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