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  • Breaking – AppFog Switches off the Rackspace Cloud

    April 27, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, AppFog, cloud computing, online communities, OpenStack, Platform as a service, rackspace, VMware
     

    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…

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  • AppFog Aquires Nodester

    August 28, 2012

    Business
    AppFog, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, Makara, Open source, PHP, platform services, WebSocket
     

    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…

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  • Rackspace deploys OpenStack–AppFog Delivers the Promise of PaaS

    July 31, 2012

    Business
    amazon-web-service, AppFog, Carlson, cloudcomputing, OpenStack, platform services, rackspace, Rackspace Cloud
     

    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…

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  • AppFog Goes GA, Helps Developers Forget About Economics

    July 25, 2012

    Business
    AppFog, Carlson, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, OpenStack, OSCON, platform services
     

    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…

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  • Appsecute Launches–PaaS marketplace and Management Platform

    July 11, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, AppFog, appsecute, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, Mark Cox, Platform as a service, Single sign-on
     

    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…

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  • Apprenda and Appfog Power Hybrid .NET

    June 6, 2012

    Business
    .NET Framework, AppFog, Application programming interface, Apprenda, Cloudfoundry, Heroku, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Platform as a service, Quest Software, Sinclair Schuller, Windows Azure
     

    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…

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

    December 7, 2011

    Business
    AppFog, Heroku, Lucas Carlson, NewRelic, PHP, PHP Fog
     

    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…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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