Last year we ran Deploycon for the first time and it was a great success. For the first time in the industry, we had a good collection of vendors, pundits and enterprise buyers getting together in a room and discuss Platform as a Service seriously. Before that, I literally begged various conferences to run an […]
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Rap Genius Flap And PaaS Visibility
Recently, a startup called Rap Genius and Heroku went back and forth on whether Heroku intentionally misled their customers about the resources underneath their PaaS platform. Having known Heroku for a long time and the fact that Salesforce will not want a PR mishap on such an issue, I personally feel that Heroku may not have […]
PaaS Landscape Report: Inviting PaaS Vendors
Rishidot Research is planning to release a research report on PaaS Landscape on April 2nd 2013. We are already in the process of preparing this report. If you are a PaaS vendor and have never briefed me in the past, please use the link to set up a briefing before March 15th 2013. If you […]
Briefing Notes: Apprenda
This is a briefing notes prepared by me on Apprenda, a private PaaS vendor focused on best of breed approach with .NET and Java Overview: Apprenda is one of the early private PaaS players with a focus on best of breed technology. After an initial focus on .NET, Apprenda is diversifying into other languages with […]
Briefing Notes: Ravello Systems
This is a briefing note prepared by me on Ravello Systems, a startup focussed on application development in hybrid cloud environment. Overview: Ravello Systems helps migrate your applications from inside the organization’s datacenter to cloud and across the cloud. Ravello’s Cloud Application Hypervisor encapsulates all the virtual machines needed for an application to make the […]
Briefing Notes: Cloudscaling
This is a briefing note prepared by me on Cloudscaling, a vendor in OpenStack ecosystem offering production grade cloud platform. Overview: Cloudscaling is one of the vendors in the OpenStack ecosystem focusing on building infrastructure for web scale applications. Their core product is Open Cloud System, which is in Version 2.0 now. OCS is suitable […]
Meet The Vendor: Parallels
Recently, I attended the Parallels Summit 2013 at Las Vegas. During the summit, myself and Alex Williams of Techcrunch had a chance to interview the CEO of Parallels, Birger Steen and talk about the SMB infrastructure market, Parallels cloud strategy and what he expects in the future. We also talked about the application packaging standard […]
Position Paper: Open Source And Cloud Computing
Abstract: Before the proliferation of cloud computing, open source software entered the enterprise IT helping them cut costs, avoid vendor lock- in and innovate on top of them. It democratized the enterprise software eventually leading to a newer operational model called cloud computing. As enterprises moved into a services based world, the natural question in […]