Topic: paas
Sam Ramji takes helm of Cloud Foundry Foundation
The Cloud Foundry Foundation was formed in early December of 2014, and already it has found a leader. Sam Ramji was announced as the new director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation this morning. Ramji said that he plans to run the Foundation like a startup. He said that the companies signed on to support Cloud … continue reading
Industry Watch: Mobility: Doing something about it
Another trip around the industry: Companies are spanning testing, Big Data, collaboration, integration and more. And all were touting the same initiatives, providing businesses with solutions that improve the quality and mobility of enterprise software. Altova, which for so many years has focused on development tools around XML, last year released Mobile Together, a platform … continue reading
IDC’s Top 10 technology predictions for 2015
As the year comes to a close, it’s the season of analyst firms looking ahead at the year to come in technology. Not to be confused with Gartner’s Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2015, market intelligence firm IDC has released its own future forecast: “IDC Worldwide Predictions 2015: Accelerating Innovation on the 3rd Platform.” … continue reading
Red Hat expands PaaS offerings
It may seem like the term “middleware” has been on vacation, but Red Hat has introduced a new version of OpenShift Enterprise, version 2.2, which brings back the classic types of middleware enterprise developers have worked with for years. The greatest difference, however, is that this time the middleware is arriving as part of a … continue reading
Apprenda Takes a Leap Forward with JBoss Support and More in Milestone 5.5 Release
TROY, N.Y.–Apprenda, the leader in enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS), announced today that it has greatly expanded its Java capabilities with support for JBoss, Tomcat 7 and JMX in its new milestone 5.5 release. This substantial update positions Apprenda as the PaaS of choice for the largest businesses in the world. Enterprise developers want … continue reading
PaaSLane shifts emphasis from cloud migration to app modernization
Cloud Technology Partners is shifting its emphasis from migrating applications to the cloud to making them cloud-ready through modernization, culminating in today’s release of version 2.5 of its PaaSLane application platform. “Companies are moving the simplest, least important apps [to the cloud] to see how they can make the cloud work for them,” said Ben … continue reading
CloudBees drops its enterprise PaaS
CloudBees (the Java PaaS company) is no more. It has now become an enterprise Jenkins company. Until now defined as a Java PaaS for mobile and Web deployment and delivery, CloudBees announced it’s shuttering its Run@cloud offering for enterprise Java developers. The company will transition completely to Continuous Delivery with a focus on Jenkins, the … continue reading
The case for separation of church and state regarding PaaS and IaaS
Being part of the choir, it’s easy to assume that everyone gets cloud. To those of us that live and breathe cloud, the differences in SaaS, PaaS and IaaS are obvious. Working with people that aren’t part of the choir, however, shows that cloud is still one of the most misunderstood phrases in the IT … continue reading
The most popular open-source cloud projects of 2014
When it comes to open-source cloud projects, OpenStack is on top, according to a survey conducted by the Linux Foundation and analysis organization The New Stack. While the open-source software for building private and public clouds is only 4 years old, the results aren’t too surprising. The project has received support from leading industry giants … continue reading
SD Times news digest: August 22, 2014—Microsoft’s DocumentDB and Azure Search-as-a-Service, Kivy library, and EngineYard’s PouchDB
Microsoft announces DocumentDB and Azure Search-as-a-Service Microsoft has announced several services for its Azure cloud platform, including DocumentDB, a fully managed NoSQL document database service. Blog posts from Microsoft Azure product marketing director Vibhor Kapoor and Azure senior program manager Ryan CrawCour detail the new services, which in addition to the NoSQL service feature Azure … continue reading
Kony combines MADP, MBaaS and PaaS into one platform
Kony wants to speed up mobile app development with the latest release of MobileFabric, its app development solution that combines a mobile application development platform (MADP), Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS), API management and Platform-as-a-Service infrastructure. “Today our customers have to make difficult choices on which different technology platform to pick that supports their requirements,” said Burley … continue reading
SD Times news digest: August 5, 2014—Dell’s mood-reading software, Docker sells dotCloud, BlackBerry ends restructuring, and battery-free wearables
Dell is creating mood-reading software As soon as 2017, Dell software could be reading your moods. Dell Enterprise Group CTO Jai Menon told the BBC that Dell’s research and development division is working with hardware manufacturers including Neurosky to build headsets that accurately identify the wearer’s emotional state. A pair of Dell researchers has already … continue reading
