Tag Archives: AppFog

April 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Breaking – AppFog Switches off the Rackspace Cloud

By Ben Kepes

AppFog customers received an email today advising them that the PaaS company will no longer support applications hosted on Rackspace infrastructures (screen grab below). We’ve been hearing through the back channel for quite some time that AppFog has been struggling to gain marketshare and revenue. Despite some high profile funding,

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August 28, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

AppFog Aquires Nodester

By Ben Kepes

As PaaS continues to generate ever-increasing levels of attention, the velocity of innovation in the space ramps up. Alongside this innovation, and in an effort to speed development, we’ll begin to see some consolidation with well-funded players acquiring companies to add to their own product mix. We’ll also see well-funded

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July 31, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Rackspace deploys OpenStack–AppFog Delivers the Promise of PaaS

By Ben Kepes

Disclosure – I run the CloudU education program which is supported by Rackspace, one of the key backers of OpenStack. I am also an investor in Appsecute, a PaaS management platform. Today is an exciting day for anyone who follows the infrastructure or PaaS space today as Rackspace announced the

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July 25, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

AppFog Goes GA, Helps Developers Forget About Economics

By Ben Kepes

AppFog is today announcing it is ready for general availability and rolling out some changes along side the release. I spent some time talking with AppFog founder Lucas Carlson last week at OSCON and then again this week by phone to dive in on the details of the release. In

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July 11, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Appsecute Launches–PaaS marketplace and Management Platform

By Ben Kepes

A few months ago I was at an event in the US and received a tweet introducing me to some guys back in New Zealand who were apparently building something on top of Cloud Foundry. Now New Zealand isn’t exactly the central hub of the tech universe, and I’d always

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June 6, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Apprenda and Appfog Power Hybrid .NET

By Ben Kepes

I’ve always had a soft spot for .NET PaaS provider Apprenda, they were one of the very first PaaS providers, their CEO Sinclair Schuller is a thought leader around PaaS and Cloud more generally and they display a laser focus on sticking to their core business – delivering the best

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December 7, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

PaaS Ecosystems–AppFog Unveils an Add-On Program. How Much on a PaaS Should be Core Functionality?

By Ben Kepes

A growing theme amongst PaaS players is to develop an add-on program to give users of their platforms the ability to acquire and provision third party services that are already integrated with the core development environment. It’s a trend that Heroku for instance has followed for years – it allows

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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