PaaS Provider ActiveState And The Paradox Of Aligning With HP And Cloud Foundry. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider ActiveState recently scored a sweet deal with HP: It is the official PaaS for the public HP cloud business.
ActiveState won the HP deal through the strength of Stackato, its PaaS that uses Cloud Foundry to offer a distributed developer platform. ActiveState executives say it hardened CloudFoundry for the enterprise. This means Stackato offers additional languages and provides more hypervisor and infrastructure support, as well as application lifecycle tools and monitoring capabilities. Stackato is packaged as a virtual machine and can run both in a private data center and a public cloud environment. That’s the appeal to HP – Stackato has dual capabilities.
Stackato’s strength is that it was built with a “security first” approach, which makes it appealing to enterprise buyers. That gives Stackato the opportunity to leverage HP and its massive customer base. Fast forward to December of last year and what does VMware do? NTT White Paper Evaluation Framework.pdf - Aurora. Gartner report throws cold water on uber-hyped OpenStack project - Aurora. A scathing report about OpenStack from research firm Gartner warns businesses to beware of considerable hype and says misconceptions about the open source cloud computing project are leading to "dangerous myths" that are impacting IT adoption and investments.
OpenStack is a nascent technology driven by a group of self-serving vendors who are pushing their own agendas over the usability of the cloud management platform, argues Lydia Leong, the author of the report and a research VP at Gartner who focuses on cloud computing. As OpenStack hype continues to build, she says vendors are associating themselves with the project for marketing reasons, but are reticent about contributing significant resources to the broader goals of the project. Fragmentation created by the amalgamation of various interests undermines the interoperability among OpenStack-powered clouds and the ability of third-party support groups to manage OpenStack distributions.
OpenStack backers, in response, disagree. Features & Benefits - Aurora. Multi-Choice Stackato provides your organization with the freedom of choice and flexibility to choose whichever data service, language, or web framework works best for each of your applications.
Instantly deploy to the cloud of your choice (private, public, or hybrid), on any infrastructure stack, allowing you to run your business how you want. Multi-Language (Polyglot) Leverage your in-house skills by giving developers the flexibility to work with the best choice of language for any task (including Java, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Go, Mono, and more), all while avoiding the need to run a parallel/overlapping/duplicate PaaS environment.
DAT19376-DemandLabs-LR.pdf - Aurora. Home » OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software - Aurora. Backend as a service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Aurora. Backend as a service (BaaS), also known as "mobile backend as a service" (MBaaS),[1][2][3] is a model for providing web and mobile app developers with a way to link their applications to backend cloud storage while also providing features such as user management, push notifications, and integration with social networking services.[4] These services are provided via the use of custom software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs).
Purpose[edit] Web and mobile apps require a similar set of features on the backend, including push notifications, integration with social networks, and cloud storage.[11][12] Each of these services has their own API that must be individually incorporated into an app, a process that can be time-consuming and complicated for app developers.[13] BaaS providers form a bridge between the frontend of an application and various cloud-based backends via a unified API and SDK.[3] Service providers[edit] Business model[edit] See also[edit] Understanding the Basics of Backend as a Service (BaaS) - Mobile News - Aurora. Enterprise Mobility: How Fast Can Development Go?
New Features From BaaS Provider AnyPresence - Aurora. I'm adding some new BaaS features I found in a recent press release from BaaS provider AnyPresence titled, "AnyPresence Launches 4th-Generation Mobile Backend-as-a-Service Platform with Unparalleled Enterprise Capabilities", to my list of BaaS features.
As I'm processing them I notice they are some pretty significant features: Application Cloning - For organizations looking to build multiple apps that have common core functionality with only minor variations, this powerful feature allows them to create a copy of an existing app along with all data source, object, and user interface definitions, saving significant development effort.
Automated App UI Testing - Developers who use AnyPresence to generate a starter mobile app user interface (UI), now get the added benefit of functional test scripts for native iOS, native Android, and jQuery Mobile web apps. I'm curious to see where AnyPresence goes with their custom extensions. Lot's of exciting stuff coming from the BaaS sector lately!
The Gospel of MBaaS- According to Anypresence Co-Founder (Part 1 of 2) - Aurora. Gartner: Amazon, HP cloud SLAs are "practically useless" - Aurora. Amazon Web Services, which Gartner recently named a market-leader in infrastructure as a service cloud computing, has the "dubious status of 'worst SLA (service level agreement) of any major cloud provider'" analyst Lydia Leong blogged today, but HP's newly available public cloud service could be even worse..
HP launched the general availability of its HP Compute Cloud on Wednesday along with an SLA. Both AWS and HP impose strict guidelines in how users must architect their cloud systems for the SLAs to apply in the case of service disruptions, leading to increased costs for users. AWS's, for example, requires customers to have their applications run across at least two availability zones (AZ), which are physically separate data centers that host the company's cloud services. Both AZs must be unavailable for the SLA to kick in. HP's SLA, Leong reports, only applies if customers cannot access any AZs.
To continue reading, register here to become an Insider It's FREE to join. Gartner's IaaS Magic Quadrant: a who's who of cloud market - Aurora. Network World - The cloud market can be a big, daunting place. Seemingly every tech vendor has a cloud strategy, with new products and services dubbed "cloud" coming out every week. But who are the real market leaders? Research firm Gartner's answer lies in its Magic Quadrant report for the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market. Unsurprisingly, Amazon Web Services is listed in the top, far-right corner, in the "leaders and visionaries" corner of the MQ.
Cloud&Telco. Gartner Reports. Using multi-cloud management software to juggle cloud providers - Aurora. Enterprises that want a choice between cloud service providers have several multi-cloud management software offerings to choose from, though workload migrations after initial deployments remain rare.
Vendors such as RightScale Inc. and CliQr Technologies Inc. offer multi-cloud management software, which gives users the ability to deploy workloads without modification to different clouds, as well as the ability to move workloads between clouds at will. We don't have to tie up to any particular cloud. We can basically profile to see which one is providing the best performance for the best cost and then we can direct our customers to that.Robert Banks, director, PZFlex Enterprise IT pros who have put these products into production said that, so far, they have helped them migrate workloads to their choice of cloud service providers.
Meanwhile, PZFlex, a virtual prototyping company based in Mountain View, Calif., has deployed its application on Hewlett-Packard Co.' NTT White Paper Evaluation Framework.pdf - Aurora. Bare-metal servers in the cloud aid performance, compliance - Aurora. It sounds like an oxymoron, but some cloud providers offer bare-metal servers -- and some organizations consider them an appealing alternative to shared infrastructure.
Cloud service providers that offer bare-metal servers include IBM's SoftLayer Technologies Inc., Rackspace Hosting Inc. and Internap Network Services Corp. Gartner report throws cold water on uber-hyped OpenStack project - Aurora. Cloud Server Provider, Cloud Hosting, VPS Hosting. Layer 7 Technologies - Aurora. New IT Webinar Series. The API market is taking a big shape. Guest post by Augusto Marietti An API is a set of programming instructions and standards for accessing a Web based software application or web tool, it’s stand for Application Programming Interface.
Since we founded Mashape, "The first APIs Marketplace", I thought that could be interesting to share some numbers and major players of this new market. API is a very old concept; but API in the cloud, accessible everywhere from anyone, the so called Open API is a completely new story. In 2000 the first company that embraced this route was Ebay, pushing out some API to help power sellers, than in 2002 came out Amazon and Salesforce in 2003. However the first strong signal was between 2005 and 2007 when Yahoo, Google, Flickr, Skype, Twitter, AOL, Windows Live and Facebook started to push out their APIs. The Trend The State of Art Google and Facebook APIs are making more than 10 Billion queries a day, a big number although we’re just at the beginning. Biz Models? The Future. API Introduction - API Management Workshop Munich from Ronnie Mitra - Aurora. Layer 7 Technologies - Aurora. Alaska Airlines - Alaska Air Case Study.pdf - Aurora.
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It’s all relative. A developer’s idea of simplicity is different from a finance chief or a customer service agent. I run across a variety of startups in my daily work at TechCrunch. But few have that innate sense of elegance or the capability to abstract complexity to such an extent that anything else seems antiquated in comparison.
Here are 10 that turn traditional complex processes into simple ways to get work done. I thought a lot about simplicity at Cloud Connect this past week after a lunchtime chat with Pradeep Prabhu, CEO and Founder at CloudMunch. There is a complexity in managing code, Prabhu said in an interview last week. GitHub has simply changed the way developers work. These three features – fork, pull request and merge – are what make GitHub so powerful.
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