Tag: PaaS

April 11, 2017

It was only a handful of years ago that the only time the topic of containers came up were at obscure open source conferences or, more usually, when someone was looking for a place to put the bulk load of […]

April 4, 2017

Last week, Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Connect, a cloud-based contact center service. The objective is to provide enterprises with an easier-to-use and faster-to-deploy call center system. But there’s deeper meaning to Amazon Connect than simply a new service from […]

March 10, 2017

In recent years, a bewildering array of acronyms about X-as-a-Service has sprung up. Cloud computing has made it possible for UK businesses to tap into an increasingly wide range of services provided over the Internet instead of on premise, with […]

March 8, 2017

Google has released more details this week on what caused its Google App Engine outage earlier this month. The Aug. 11 outage affected 37 percent of applications hosted in its US-Central region, according to the incident report. Google said that […]

January 18, 2017

With the proliferation of both SQL and NoSQL databases, organizations can now target specific fit-for-purpose database tools for their different application needs regarding scalability, ease of use, ACID support, etc. Platform as a Service offerings make this even easier now, […]

November 16, 2016

Moving to cloud is in effect just another infrastructure migration project – with one further complication, which can make it three times as long and five times as complicated as you originally thought. The good news is that the technology […]

November 8, 2016

Obviously the cloud still allows the use of virtual machines (VMs) but increasingly companies are drawn to the benefits of running infrastructure as a service (IaaS), as well as platform as a service (PaaS), which commoditises these elements and focuses […]

November 4, 2016

Microsoft is cool again. This is according to Facebook CIO Tim Campos, who made a guest appearance at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2016 keynote on Tuesday to talk about how Facebook’s 13,000 employees around the world are now using […]

September 15, 2016

In flash storage these days, it takes more than speed to win over many enterprises. Violin Memory, an early player in enterprise flash, made strides more than a decade ago with storage arrays that outran spinning-disk systems for applications that […]

September 15, 2016

In my capacity as a Cloud Advisor, I’ve had several discussions with clients in the travel and transportation (T&T) industry over the past 18 months. During one initial discussion with a large airline, the client’s enterprise architect posed a targeted […]

September 7, 2016

Navigating the container ecosystem can be confusing. Deciding where to dip your toes is challenging for those stepping into container and microservices waters. Even those who have already ventured knee-deep still wade through many questions as they progress in their […]

July 1, 2016

Mobile development increasingly becoming the norm for businesses. According an IBM Institute for Business Value study, 77 percent of executives plan to undertake at least five enterprise mobile initiatives over the next year. As more and more enterprises take advantage […]

June 27, 2016

One of the oldest arguments for moving enterprise applications to the cloud sounds like something an accountant would like: Cloud services, paid for on a monthly basis, are an operational expense, which is better than the capital expense of building […]

June 24, 2016

By 2020, cloud-first or cloud-only will be the norm at enterprises, according to a new report by Gartner released on Wednesday. Gartner said that these cloud-friendly policies will replace the “defensive no-cloud stance that dominated many large providers in recent […]

June 14, 2016

The cloud wars rage on. The room is full of 800lb gorillas that have been battling over market share and supremacy for several years now. You know who the key players are – Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM – all […]

June 6, 2016

Cloud cost monitoring platform Cloudability announced on Monday that it has closed a $24 million Series B round of financing, led by the Foundry Select Fund. According to a blog post by Mat Ellis, Cloudability CEO and founder, the funding […]

April 15, 2016

Pittsburgh-based startup ContainerShip has raised a $2.41 seed round on Thursday led by Draper Triangle Ventures and Birchmere Ventures. ContainerShip is a platform as a service that can be run in a user’s data center or cloud, and supports deployment […]

March 22, 2016

When acquisitioning PaaS services, a cloud computing client benefits from a platform that gives him the possibility to develop, run and manage applications without investing time and funds into putting together the infrastructure (platform) itself. Making sure to deliver the […]

March 16, 2016

Oracle reported its fourth consecutive quarter of declining revenue on Tuesday, as rapid growth in its cloud business failed to offset the tepid demand for more traditional products. Oracle said sales of its cloud services jumped 40 percent in the […]

March 14, 2016

Current cloud application platforms for enterprise software are like “radio on TV”. Like early TV programs that showed a (radio) announcer reading news off a page, the current a PaaS take the good-old models of application architecture and programming (basic […]