Tag: PaaS

October 14, 2020

Having completed its purchase of bare-metal cloud specialist Packet in March, Equinix is announcing the availability of Equinix Metal, an automated and interconnected bare metal cloud service in four major regions. A bare metal service means the customer provides the […]

June 29, 2020

The worldwide cloud adoption boom shows no signs of slowing down: According to Gartner, the global public cloud services market is forecast to grow 17% in 2020 to a total of $266 billion, with SaaS remaining the largest market segment. […]

June 24, 2020

The Cloud Foundry Foundation, home to the open-source Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud, announced from the virtual Cloud Foundry North American Summit the release of version 7 of the Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (CF CLI v7). A command line? […]

March 20, 2020

Some people think you need to decide between Cloud Foundry, a prominent open-source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud, and Kubernetes, the wildly popular container orchestration program. That’s never been true. They perform different jobs, and you’ve long been able to use them […]

January 10, 2020

Synergy Research Group’s review of enterprise IT spending during the last 10 years shows that “annual spending on cloud infrastructure services has gone from virtually zero to almost $100 billion.” No surprise here. However, “enterprise spending on data center hardware […]

December 4, 2019

Not every company has a vast IT operation. This might involve a data center with business servers, network switches and equipment, storage — and the related IT service management staff needed to run it. Yet, with the emergence of cloud […]

November 22, 2019

Cloud Foundry, the open-source platform-as-a-service that, with the help of lots of commercial backers, is currently in use by the majority of Fortune 500 companies, launched well before containers, and especially the Kubernetes orchestrator, were a thing. Instead, the project […]

November 11, 2019

Software as a Service, usually abbreviated to SaaS, is a distribution model for software, whereby instead of downloading the software to run locally on your PC, the program is hosted by a third-party provider, and then accessed by users over […]

October 23, 2019

You can’t read tech news anymore without seeing containers everywhere. Containers have become the way for everyone to run their jobs on the cloud. And, to manage containers, Kubernetes is everyone’s favorite. But, according to a Cloud Foundry, the open-source […]

September 12, 2019

At the Cloud Foundry Summit in The Hague, IBM today showcased its Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment on Red Hat’s OpenShift container platform. For the longest time, the open-source Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service ecosystem and Red Hat’s Kubernetes-centric OpenShift were mostly seen […]

July 31, 2019

Public cloud spending is increasingly being concentrated among the top five providers and the consolidation of wallet share is even more intense in infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service, according to IDC data. IDC reported that the top five public cloud providers accounted […]

April 8, 2019

While cloud computing is far from a magic bullet for all your data storage and security woes, organizations are enjoying meaningful benefits in the form of cost-efficiency, on-demand scalability, heavy upfront capital shifted to recurring operational expenses, augmented resources and […]

March 6, 2019

Much of my work over the past decade has centered on the notion of building a platform in one way or another. It could be through architecting a major business service to meet a new regulatory need, defining, implementing, and […]

January 25, 2019

According to Cisco’s Global Cloud Index, 59 percent of all cloud workflows were delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) by 2019. But infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) dropped to 28 percent from 44 percent in 2013, and that platform-as-a-service (PaaS) was only 13 percent for […]

June 15, 2018

Migrating workloads to the public cloud is taking most enterprise IT organization’s time these days. Although analyst predictions vary, I would say we’re at about 20 percent migrated in the Global 2000, including PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS. Common mistakes are […]

April 25, 2018

Despite a selloff in technology shares, Pivotal Software’s IPO late last week couldn’t have come at a better time for proponents of Cloud Foundry, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology and ecosystem the company seeded by contributing its base IP to the […]

April 17, 2018

Docker released a major update to its container management platform Tuesday that introduces functionality to better support large enterprises building and deploying applications across diverse and distributed environments. Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 extends the container pioneer’s strengths around operational efficiency […]

March 28, 2018

Cloud services, particularly infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service, are well established, but in some cases customers demand more — more control, more access to hardware, more performance, and the ability to pick their own operating environment. In those cases, they are looking […]

February 26, 2018

Dell EMC announced three new servers designed for software-defined environments, edge and high-performance computing (HPC). The PowerEdge R6415, PowerEdge R7415 and PowerEdge R7425expand the 14th generation of the Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio with new capabilities to address the demanding workload requirements of today’s modern data centre. […]

August 30, 2017

The Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley opened in Santa Clara, California, today with announcements by the Cloud Foundry Foundation of a new certification for developers as well as a new member, Microsoft. Several years ago, news of Redmond shelling out […]