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David Meyer Feb 26, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Happy open-source family

Russia’s Runa Capital invests $3.4M in database firm MariaDB

Moscow-based Runa Capital has invested €3 million ($3.4 million) in MariaDB, the open-source database company that offers what began as a MySQL…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Europe, Technology
Jonathan Vanian Feb 19, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- A PaaS for legacy companies?

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…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Jonathan Vanian Feb 10, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- GoDaddy modernization goes on

GoDaddy acquires an interesting Node.js-centric startup

GoDaddy is continuing its effort to upgrade its infrastructure into something more modern by acquiring Nodejitsu, a Node.js-centric platform-as-a-service provider, the web-hosting…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Dec 23, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Playing the field

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…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
David S. Linthicum Dec 12, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Weekly Update

We’re finally headed towards autonomous, self-migrating containers for cloud-application automation

It’s 1:00 am. You get an email from an “application migration manger” (automation tool) that says your inventory-control application containers successfully migrated…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Derrick Harris Sep 30, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Pivotal 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics
Jonathan Vanian Sep 28, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Oracle launches upgraded cloud platform with its database and Java available as a service

While Oracle has a cloud platform that it’s been trying to spread to the masses for a few years, the biggest deal regarding the new cloud upgrade is supposedly the ability for people to use Oracle’s database in the cloud or on-premise in their own environment.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Jonathan Vanian Sep 25, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Big data startup Continuuity becomes Cask and is now completely open source

Users of Cask's open-source big data PaaS will have three options: CDAP Free, CDAP Standard and CDAP Enterprise.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics
Barb Darrow Jun 10, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Pivotal 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Technology
Derrick Harris May 17, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Platform 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow May 15, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Heroku 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow May 13, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Heroku 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Apr 29, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Microsoft and Apprenda tighten up their PaaS pact

The two long-time allies now offer a joint hybrid Platform-as-a-Service that bridges internal IT with Azure public cloud.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Apr 14, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Red 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Mar 21, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Maybe OpenStack has legs after all: Red Hat taps once-skeptical Gartner analyst to lead group

Alessandro Perilli will help Red Hat push its enterprise hybrid cloud plan. The company hopes to become to OpenStack cloud what its been for Linux.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Mar 5, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Verizon puts some of its money where its mouth is — into CloudBees

Verizon Ventures leads an $11.2 million Series C round that will fund more product development and an expanded sales effort around the Java-based PaaS.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Feb 3, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Heroku launches more muscular Dynos to power internet apps

PaaS player Heroku launches bigger, faster -- but still lightweight -- Performance XL Dynos for web-scale applications.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Jan 28, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Apprenda brings Java support, better policy embrace, to the masses

Apprenda tailors its private PaaS for IT shops where adherence to corporate policies -- and support of Java as well as .Net -- are key concerns…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
James Urquhart Jan 25, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Enough PaaS vs. IaaS: The cloud is really about Services as a Platform

Platform as a service has been hailed as the next frontier in cloud computing, but some experts are saying it's more a feature than a market. James Urquhart says PaaS versus IaaS is a moot debate, because "Services as a platform" is the real cloud model.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Jan 7, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

CenturyLink 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Steve Harris Dec 14, 2013 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Demystifying 4 myths around PaaS

One of the problems with the term "Platform as a Service" is that it means different things to different people. Here we sort through some of the myths surrounding it.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Dec 3, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

So … do you really need a PaaS?

Serious question: How many companies really need a full fledged platform as a service to build, test and deploy their next-gen apps? Here's your chance to weigh in.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Nov 24, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Salesforce.com pivots to IoT and mobile — what took so long?

The week in cloud: Salesforce.com rejiggers its platform-as-a-service strategy; CenturyLink snaps up Tier 3 and Apprenda snags $16 million.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Nov 21, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Cloud 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology

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