Paas News & Articles

More enterprises have begun to see the cloud as a viable option for everything from physical servers to end user facing applications. This increased user demand is allowing companies such as data platform-as-a-service provider Cloudant to grow rapidly. The company announced that it is further expanding its data centers globally to improve reliability and performance.

Far be it from me to spread gossip and rumor BUT… well, yesterday when we took a look at the new upgrade to v2.1 of IBM’s SmartCloud, we came across a number of references to the fact that Google is building a c loud computing offering that is to compete with Amazon’s EC2 cloud.

Amazon Web Services has released its cloud search offering, CloudSearch, which has been rumored for months. The new service is based on the same technology that powers product searches on Amazon.com. Amazon is the first company to offer search-as-a-service, but something tells us the Internet giant’s competitors will soon be scrambling to keep up now that Amazon has entered the market.

Hewett-Packard (HP) has finally revealed details for its new massive cloud program, which has been generating rumors for weeks. HP is calling the new bag of services the Converged Cloud, and the name signals HP’s plans -- a unified architecture for all flavors of the cloud -- public, private and managed.

A look to the (near) future of cloud computing and some good news -- we hope -- for those considering the deployment of private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has partnered with Eucalyptus to enable private cloud users to migrate workloads to Amazon’s public cloud.

Not one, but two platform-as-a-service (PaaS) announcements hit the wire today. First Flow Corporation announced a new cloud based real-time data platform called Flow Platform, which allows next generation applications, particularly mobile ones, to manage multiple information streams through one interface.

At the same time, Portland, OR based AppFog cloud based hosting service added more to the PaaS fold with the announcement of ClearDB and CloudMailin, which join its established add-on programs for third party service providers.  

 In January, Deb Miller wrote that “Business agility is all about being prepared for and able to quickly adapt to change." Perhaps Eccentex was listening. Today the dynamic case management solution provider announced that it had raised US$ 7.5 Million in Series A funding that will be used for expanding its PaaS cloud computing solutions.

There is a big huge not exactly new player in the NoSQL market. Amazon has brought DynamoDB back. Dramatic pause. Dynamo was NoSQL before there was a NoSQL.

Jaspersoft announced that its business intelligence (BI) software will be integrated with Red Hat's OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

 Microsoft has been taking big steps to make its cloud platform, Windows Azure, more attractive. Just last week the company announced support for several popular open source development tools including Node.js and Hadoop. It seems that the company is intent on ensuring that Windows Azure remains the leading choice for Microsoft-based cloud services, but the company shouldn’t get too comfortable on its throne. VMWare and little-known Tier 3 have stepped forward to provide Microsoft a little competition. Game on, Azure.

Microsoft is taking big strides to make its Azure cloud service more attractive. The company has announced several updates to the platform aimed at improving its usability. The company, which has long been criticized for a less-than-friendly stance on open source, is continuing to show that giants can change. Several of the recently announced updates improve support for open source development on Azure.

Microsoft has released its server roadmap and all paths lead to the cloud. It appears that although the company will continue to sell on-premise products, it really wants customers to move to cloud-based products.

Countless industry studies have been published confirming something many of us already know -- content volume and diversity are increasing rapidly in organizations of all sizes. This rapid expansion along all dimensions is driving enterprises to adopt content management solutions to gain better control and visibility of their information. Increasingly, many of these organizations are selecting cloud-based platforms to flexibly handle content growth without the complexities of managing a highly available environment. Microsoft hopes that at least a portion of this growing market will select Azure to power their deployments. Will they?

Think Big Data, and many of us think Big Government. In a recent white paper called Governing the Cloud, Granicus CTO Javier Muniz and CEO Tom Spengler offer five reasons why the cloud is going to make government and large enterprise governance easier.

Customers attracted to Documentum, but dreading the deployment effort, now have a new option. EMC announced EMC OnDemand, a hybrid platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that includes EMC Documentum, EMC Captiva and EMC Document Sciences.