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 For the last two years, enterprise mobility has had a high place on the technology agenda of most companies. However, the mobile enterprise remains a highly complex and expensive endeavor that can only be afforded by a small group of organizations. Even more importantly, the enterprise...Jun. 25, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,133 |
 After an initial sluggish start, where Microsoft Windows Azure was the only player, we started to see increased support for Platform as a Service from major vendors starting with VMware vFabric and Red Hat OpenShift.
However, there was still a void in the PaaS space as the major playe...Jun. 25, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,257 |
 I am the track chair of the CloudExpo Bootcamp this year at Jacob Javits Center in NYC from June 11-14. You can check the agenda here.
As an invitee of the track chair, you can register for free (with the bootcamp option) at www.cloudcomputingexpo.com with "robustcloud" as the promo...Jun. 8, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,463 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under two weeks away, what better time to remind you in greater detail of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...?
We have technical and strategy ...May. 31, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,391 |
 If your organization already uses virtualized infrastructure, you are well on your way to providing IT as a Service. But as businesses demand faster results in today’s competitive market, organizations look to gain more benefits from cloud computing than just virtualized infrastructure...May. 23, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,208 |
 CollabNet went into public beta Monday with a strategic new enterprise-
grade development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) called CloudForge so
distributed teams can manage and scale cloud-based development using a
broad set of tools, application frameworks and deployment clouds.
It...May. 2, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,236 |
 PaaS is nothing but uploading your small kernel of code with business logic and the PaaS service provider will run that code on allocated computing and storage instances. The aim of PaaS is to let the developers concentrate on developing their code rather than creating and maintaining ...May. 1, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,708 |
 This is a continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS. This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning a Software as a Service meant for a specific industry is stressed for wider atte...Apr. 20, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,332 |
 Cloud Computing , more specifically Platform as a Service (PaaS) is changing the business app developer demographic forever. Or should I say that, PaaS is reviving or giving a new lease of life for productivity focused business developers. The kind that existed during the Client-Server...Apr. 18, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,685 |
 There are a number of the Cloud Application Platforms out there. And, that makes the life of CIO difficult in choosing the right PaaS for his enterprise. This post takes a logical approach to this challenge by examining the key enterprise needs and motivations.Apr. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,163 |
 Only ten weeks to go! Time for an alphabetical summary of the many leading-edge themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) - being held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Convention Center in New York City and co-located with Big Data Expo 2012 New York ...Apr. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,279 |
 You can't imagine any business application without a business logic/rule. Yet, business rules are the most abused term and least understood. Everybody knows the importance of it, but sadly everyone has a cliched understanding. In this post, I set out to articulate business rules in gen...Apr. 3, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,552 |
 There has been a lot of press around the notion of Platform as a Service (PaaS). It seems like a week doesn't go by without an announcement about a PaaS platform. In this article, I will try to explore the various types of PaaS platforms and distinguish between them.
Metadata PaaS pla...Mar. 21, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,451 |
 We’re seeing a lot of changes in the IT landscape. Oracle buying its way into the Cloud, AMD wants in on the server business, Dell is no longer a PC company, and some legacy players are learning about the Cloud market the hard way (see: Harris Scraps Secure Public Cloud). Harris claims...Mar. 9, 2012 05:15 AM EST Reads: 2,397 |
 "We decided in January 2012 to create Appsembler," said Appsembler CEO Nate Aune as it was announced that his company has integrated ActiveState's Stackato application platform technology into its namesake hosted-service offering for Web applications in the cloud.
Mar. 9, 2012 05:15 AM EST Reads: 1,696 |
 This is Part 2 in my series of post on the topic of PaaS (Platform as a Service) and in this post I have covered why PaaS for enterprises is more than just DevOps and a larger "technology convergence" in the core "Software Engineering" area is leading this perfect storm called PaaS. Th...Mar. 6, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 1,646 |
 ActiveState, whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, today announced the general availability of Stackato 1.0. Stackato is the application platform for creating a private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) using any language on any stack on any cloud...Feb. 29, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,387 |
 CumuLogic is a cloud computing company founded by Sun Microsystems’ alumni. The company has developed a Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) software that makes it easier and faster to develop and deploy Java applications (apps) in the cloud. By automating the management of the runtime en...Feb. 7, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,885 |
 One of the first things I learned when I started talking with clients about their plans for platform-based clouds is that there is no such thing as a ‘simple application environment.’ Even for the most basic, CRUD-style applications, you can count on there being numerous different comp...Feb. 6, 2012 04:30 AM EST Reads: 1,315 |
 "Categories" are supposed to help. But sometimes they hurt. When they help, they reduce confusion. When they hurt, they cause confusion. Helpful categories is one of those "Best Practices" that is high on my list of important things. Gartner's "iPaaS" confuses.
When properly appl...Feb. 2, 2012 05:45 AM EST Reads: 1,571 |
 I’ve been looking at the PaaS space for some time now. I spent some time with the good folks at CloudBees (naturally), and have had many conversations on CloudFoundry, Azure, and more with vendors, customers and other cloudy folks.
Krishnan posted a very good article over on CloudAve...Jan. 30, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,962 |
 In an application deployed directly on IaaS, you know and control everything about the database; in a SaaS application you know little and control nothing.
But how does it work in PaaS?
Since a PaaS is essentially a container that runs application code, and virtually every applicat...Jan. 4, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,069 |
 Open source platform as a service (PaaS) platforms are one of the most exciting topics in the software industry nowadays. Following the $212M acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce.com, we’ve seen how, in a matter of months, platforms like dotCloud, VMWare’s Cloud Foundry or Red Hat’s Ope...Jan. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 4,317 |
 With 9th Cloud Expo at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center now finished, Cloud Computing Journal asked a variety of industry stakeholders what their Top Three takeaways were from the event, now that the many thousands of delegates are back at their desks and their companies,...Nov. 28, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 3,796 |
 Whether SaaS, IaaS or PaaS, one of the central concepts of all layers of cloud computing is multi-tenancy. If there is no shared resource in a deployment, it’s difficult to justify calling that deployment “cloud.”
In most SaaS offerings, the multi-tenancy is manifold – the servers, t...Nov. 27, 2011 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,974 |
 This is the continuation of my series of Articles on Industry SaaS . This term ‘Industry SaaS’ can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process As A Service). However the term ‘Industry SaaS’ meaning a Software As A Service meant for a specific industry need is st...Nov. 24, 2011 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,647 |
 With 9th Cloud Expo - Cloud Expo Silicon Valley - in full swing at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California, what's being said about the future landscape of cloud computing? In this round-up we asked a variety of members of the cloud computing ecosystem, from CIOs to independent...Nov. 23, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 21,693 |
 This is the continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS. The term ‘Industry SaaS' can be used interchangeably with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning a Software as a Service meant for a specific industry need needs more attention...Nov. 16, 2011 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,584 |
 This is the first part of the multi-part series on "What is PaaS all about?"
Let’s start by looking at the “Platform” story prior to Cloud. Enterprise IT did a lot of heavy lifting. They handcrafted the platform by combining various products such as App Servers, Web Servers, Databases...Nov. 15, 2011 09:45 AM EST Reads: 2,577 |
 Hence no surprise that when the seemingly simple concept of Cloud Computing took off, so did the emergence of an abundance of acronyms and synonyms reaping a new breed of I.T. professionals who were the only ones that could correctly understand them i.e. ‘The Cloud Specialist’. Despit...Nov. 1, 2011 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,969 |
 Making a the right choice in the cloud is important. This article tries to address when to PaaS instead of SaaS or IaaS.
It can be argued that Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) have been sufficiently commoditized so as to neutralize any “breakthrough”...Oct. 20, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,516 |
 There are different types Application Platform as a Service. Choosing one vs the other involves certain trade off and this article attempts to bring to light those trade offs.
Every other day there is a new cloud product / platform announcement. Not just startups, even the mega ISVs a...Oct. 19, 2011 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,505 |
 It's no secret that cloud integration is one of the main challenges facing today's enterprises. In order to meet the growing need for secure and reliable cloud integration solutions, several vendors have started to offer integration services known as iPaaS, or integration Platform as a...Aug. 9, 2011 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,782 |
 There's a lot of momentum behind moving to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for delivery of applications on the cloud, but is there enough maturity in PaaS to deploy a mission-critical application? Here's a story regarding one loyalty program provider that offers his customers SaaS solutio...Aug. 8, 2011 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,014 |
 Advertised as an integration platform for the cloud, web and enterprise,
MuleSoft has rolled out a public beta of Mule iON, a cloud-based iPaaS or
newfangled Integration Platform-as-a-Service.
It’s supposed to be the world’s first iPaaS for integrating and orchestrating
cloud-ifi...May. 25, 2011 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,939 |
 If you require the actual erasure of deleted files, then you must take an active step to erase the portion of the drive that contained the file, perhaps by explicitly overwriting each bit of the original file. We call this problem data remanence. Cloud Computing complicates the data re...May. 20, 2011 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,273 |
 Established and new ISVs, telcos, hosters and other tech providers are launching SaaS services at an ever-increasing pace, and that's great. However, many of these initiatives fail to attract leads and customers in the volume expected, resulting in management, market and shareholder di...May. 18, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,038 |
| Before making a purchase, IT pros must determine how a provider’s platform integrates with their current data center infrastructure and programmers’ skill sets, as well as identify what unique capabilities each has to offer so that they can make the optimal choice. Get the details on t... May. 17, 2011 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,149 |
 One can add the word "social" to any other word in the English language right now, and somewhere, sometime, a group of software developers will turn the colloquy into some kind of a website or application.
Take "social" + "comparison" for example.May. 7, 2011 07:34 AM EDT Reads: 3,187 |
 When anyone is planning to break the barrier for Cost, Quality and time, the only option is to look for a different paradigm.
I readily agreed when Ramasubramaniam VP of Chennai PMI Chapter asked me to speak on ‘Cloud Computing’ – obviously :-) ! But, I realized the twist only later. ...Mar. 8, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,561 |
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