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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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 MoreGoDaddy 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…
Read MoreApprenda 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 MoreWe’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…
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 MoreOracle 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.…
Read MoreBig 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.…
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 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 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 MoreMicrosoft 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.…
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 MoreMaybe 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.…
Read MoreVerizon 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.…
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 MoreApprenda 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…
Read MoreEnough 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.…
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 MoreDemystifying 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.…
Read MoreSo … 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.…
Read MoreSalesforce.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.…
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.…
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