Facebook’s cloud development platform, Parse, has partnered with Heroku to make it easier for developers to take advantage of both platforms’ capabilities.…
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Heroku’s new app-development product line is meant for the enterprise
Heroku, the Salesforce-owned company that powers the application-development process of hot startups like Lyft and Upworthy, announced a new product line Thursday…
Read MoreCloud monitoring category gets busier
Server monitoring gets hot SolarWinds, which monitors multi-vendor technologies running in house, last week bought Librato to extend its reach into the cloud.…
Read MoreA top apps list worth a look from Meldium
Tis the season of “top apps of the year” lists. Many are skippable. But this one compiled by password management company Meldium, now part of LogMeIn,…
Read MoreEx-Heroku CEO Byron Sebastian joins the board at Codenvy
Byron Sebastian, the former CEO of Heroku who was most recently an executive vice president at Salesforce.com, is joining the board of directors at…
Read MoreWho has the biggest cloud? By year’s end, the answer may surprise you.
Microsoft's cloud biz, including Azure, Office 365 and other stuff, will hit $5.77 billion run rate by December, surpassing Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com, according to Nomura Securities Analyst Rick Sherlund.…
Read MorePlatform as a service is still a work in progress for enterprise apps
Heroku has been at the platform-as-a-service game for a long time now, and it's still trying to bridge the gap between its web-application-centric roots and the enterprise developers it desires. CEO Tod Nielsen explains how it's going about that and why he thinks it will succeed.…
Read MoreHeroku CEO on why two PaaSes are better than one — no really!
On this week's Structure Show hear from Tod Nielsen, now of Heroku but ex of Cloud Foundry, on why it really makes sense for Heroku and parent company Salesforce.com to field more than one development platform.…
Read MoreHeroku co-founder is on board at content management startup Contentful
Adam Wiggins, who helped launch the platform-as-a-service category with Heroku, now takes on content management with Contentful.…
Read MoreHeroku queues up connector to pump data to and from Salesforce.com
The Salesforce1 Heroku Connect offers bi-directional sync of customer data residing in Salesforce.com applications -- running in Oracle -- and that same data running Postgres on Heroku.…
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 MoreJumpstarter launches “next-gen hosting platform”, promising sub-second server spin-up
The Stockholm-based outfit wants to provide a more user-friendly alternative to traditional website hosting platforms and platform-as-a-service players like Heroku.…
Read MoreAssessing Windows Azure at its four-year mark
Microsoft's ambitious Windows Azure cloud platform just turned four. Here's how it's doing, according to Gigaom Research analyst Janakiram MSV.…
Read MoreCircleCI nets $6M from DJF to take its continuous integration global
The San Francisco startup hopes to broaden availability of its continuous integration and delivery SaaS service.…
Read MoreHeroku launches more muscular Dynos to power internet apps
PaaS player Heroku launches bigger, faster -- but still lightweight -- Performance XL Dynos for web-scale applications.…
Read MoreHeroku gussies up Postgres with database roll-back and proactive alerts
New Heroku Postgres database service features should free up DBAs to do more meaningful work, said product lead Craig Kerstiens.…
Read MoreUh oh. Amazon U.S. East is in trouble again
Amazon EC2 services running out of Northern Virginia are showing signs of wear and tear on Friday the Thirteenth.…
Read MoreVMware diaspora continues as top execs crop up at Red Hat and Rackspace
Cloud rivals snap up former VMware execs for their own infrastructure pushes. Can VMware sustain these losses as it moves to a broader IaaS strategy?…
Read More7 big questions out of the Oracle-Salesforce lovefest
Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff shared their plans for an expanded alliance (and a truce) but what does the Oracle-Salesforce pact really mean?…
Read MoreHeroku taps industry vet Tod Nielsen as new CEO
Nielsen is jumping ship from Pivotal's Cloud Foundry to rival PaaS Heroku. He's also held senior exec roles at Oracle, BEA Systems, and Borland Software.…
Read MoreMeet the heavyweight team behind Heavybit, a community for developer-focused startups
Heroku co-founder James Lindenbaum is launching a new effort focused on giving developer-focused startups the tools they need to scale. He has recruited some significant peers and investors as advisers to teach member companies the ropes.…
Read MoreWhat I think of Salesforce’s decision to buy Exact Target for $2.5 billion
Salesforce is trying hard and spending large to diversify from its CRM base. Today it announced plans to buy Exact Target for $2.5 billion on top of about $1.5 billion it spent on companies such as Heroku, Radian6 and Buddy Media.…
Read MoreHeroku says PostGIS support enables smarter mobile app development
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 MoreHeroku 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.…
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