"PaaS" Posts
PaaS news and information from Talkin’ Cloud covers Platform as a Service (IaaS) options for cloud services providers (CSPs) and cloud channel partners.
Cloud database specialist Xeround announced the availability of its database-as-a-service (DbaaS) for MySQL applications on the AppHarbor .NET platform and AppFog’s PHP Fog PHP platform, providing developers, according to the press release, with a “zero-management, highly available and scalable cloud database solution in just one click.”
The AppHarbor and AppFog efforts provide simple integration between applications hosted on these applications and Xeround’s DbaaS. From a cloud integrator’s perspective, deploying the add-on automatically creates a MySQL-compatible cloud-based database that connects to …
Atlanta-based OutSystems, an application development specialist, has launched the seventh edition of Agile Platform, which the company claims will help customers to enhance control over application development, improve application lifecycle management and bridge the gap between the development and operations functions in an organization.
New features in OutSystems Agile Platform 7 include:
Simplified DevOps. Agile Platform 7 introduces LifeTime, a new component for application lifecycle management that provides increased control over application development without sacrificing operational simplicity. With …
When Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) recently announced its long-term strategy for OpenShift, I began to think about potential implications for cloud-focused application developers and emerging cloud consultants. Already, cloud developers are seeking to understand cloud platforms like OpenStack, CloudStack, Microsoft Windows Azure and VMware Cloud Foundry. Amid all that noise, can Red Hat attract developers to OpenShift? And equally important: Can cloud consultants explain OpenShift and its alternatives to business customers?
So far, Red Hat is …
HP‘s (NYSE: HPQ) recently announced HP Public Cloud initiative now has some elements in public beta, with a slew of companies immediately jumping in to offer technologies ranging from applications to mobility to security.
The HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network elements of HP Cloud Services are now officially open for use, although in beta form (which means there probably are some kinks yet to be worked out). The HP Cloud …
Enterprise cloud platform specialist Tier3 announced the latest release of its flagship Enterprise Cloud Platform, which now features Web Fabric, a multiple language and framework Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud is based on VMware vCloud and is designed to run back office and “line of business” applications in a secure virtual private cloud; it also has built-in disaster recovery functionality. In addition, Tier 3 announced Data Fabric, a high availability database-as-a-service (DbaaS) that will be in beta …
Managed hosting and cloud solutions firm BroadCloud, and enterprise OpenStack specialist Piston Cloud Computing announced BroadCloud will now offer the Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS) to its managed services customers, enabling them to implement and manage private clouds without large capital expenditures, according to the company. BroadCloud provides IT services from 60 data centers worldwide via a network of data center operating vendors inlcuding Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX) Level3 (NYSE: LVLT), Bytegrid and CoreLink, as well as on-premise solutions for …
Cloud data delivery firm DataMotion has added SecureContact.me as a free feature for subscribers of its SecureMail e-mail encryption service. SecureContact.me enables customers to securely communicate with non-SecureMail subscribers by using encrypted e-mail; a link in the SecureMail customer’s messages permits non-users to set up a secure message.
SecureMail is based on the DataMotion Platform, a PaaS offering designed to help organizations securely deliver electronic information while fulfilling compliance requirements.
SecureMail benefits, according to DataMotion, include:
- Compliance without Complication:
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Piston Cloud Computing, an enterprise-level OpenStack specialist, announced a community open source initiative to integrate VMware’s (NYSE: VMW) Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service product with OpenStack. Piston Cloud is designing a “Cloud Provider Interface” with help from VMware to create the OpenStack integration, and also intends to submit the Cloud Foundry project to the OpenStack satellite ecosystem for acceptance as an incubation project.
The newly announced integration will be built using BOSH, an “open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and …
Virtualization and cloud infrastructure specialist VMware (NYSE: VMW) threw a party this month to mark the one-year anniversary of its Cloud Foundry open platform as a service (PaaS) effort. And to show that the little one is plucky and chipper, VMware had on hand for the celebration some new partners and announced a new open source management system, as well as new tools for operating large-scale services. And for supporters of VMware, that’s better than cake and ice cream.
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How will the HP Cloud strategy differentiate itself from Amazon Web Services, Rackspace and a potential flood of OpenStack cloud providers? Zorawar ‘Biri’ Singh, senior VP and GM of HP Cloud Services, offered Talkin’ Cloud some clues today during the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference in San Francisco.
During a sit-down with Talkin’ Cloud, Singh described how HP will work closely with VARs, MSPs and cloud services providers. Without prompting, Singh directed his comments toward each of those channel audiences, …
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