Tag Archives: EngineYard

February 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Apprenda Shifts the Game on Polyglot Vs Best of Breed PaaS

By Ben Kepes

One of the biggest battles raging in the PaaS world has been between the Polyglot and the Best of Breed camps. In the polyglot corner stands Heroku, Engine Yard and Cloud Foundry who all say that only a platform that gives an organization the ability to develop in multiple different

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February 26, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

By Ben Kepes

I kind of feel sorry for Engine Yard sometime – once seen as one of the two best-known Platform as a Service offerings (alongside Heroku), the acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce kind of reduced Engine Yard’s visibility. The subsequent release of Cloud Foundry, and the significant uptake it has had

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January 4, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

By Ben Kepes

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing what I saw happening with Salesforce – how the combination of force.com and Heroku was creating a real gravity pull for developers and that

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November 14, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Follow Up Post – Continuuity, the PaaS for Big Data (and a $10M Series A)

By Ben Kepes

When Continuuity came out of stealth recently I was a little dismissive of a press release that was full of buzzwords and lacking significant details about what they’re actually doing. To their credit the Continuuity team reached out to me and spent some time talking about what they’re seeing in

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August 30, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

PaaS API Specification Submitted to OASIS–CAMP Blowing Around in the Tumbleweeds

By Ben Kepes

I took some time out of my day at CloudOpen today to dial in for a briefing from some of the companies behind a new industry standard, Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP), a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) management Application Programming Interface (API) specification. I’m always dubious about these sorts of initiatives,

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May 14, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xeround Rolls out Database as a Service Further

By Ben Kepes

Xeround, the database as a service offering is today announcing an integration that sees it power MySQL applications running on both AppHarbor’s .Net platform as well as AppFog’s PHP platform. As developers increasingly look to PaaS as the first choice for easing the deployment and management aspects of their task,

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February 22, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Amazon Goes PaaS–Game On. Let’s See How the Competition Respond.

By Ben Kepes

A week or two ago I had a heated argument on Twitter with someone who was adamant that Amazon would remain an infrastructure player and avoid the temptation to move up the stack. Even after the release of DynamoDB, we weren’t entirely sure as to their intentions. That kind of

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November 18, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

EngineYard Adds Another Framework and Introduces Labs

By Ben Kepes

Quick post this morning to tell reader that EngineYard is rolling out yet another language/framework for its PaaS, this time Node.js. Alongside this fact (and we’ve all grown pretty well accustomed to PaaS players adding new languages and frameworks on a weekly basis, EngineYard is introducing a “labs” feature that

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October 18, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SuccessFactors Partners with CloudFoundry to Deliver PaaS

By Ben Kepes

Interesting news that SuccessFactors has selected VMware’s PaaS, CloudFoundry as its platform to allow creation and extension of customer applications around its core data. This is an interesting move particularly given that it follows the move of Workday, Infor and Concur to use the force.com PaaS as the platform of

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September 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

JRuby for Engine Yard Goes GA

By Ben Kepes

In another step towards PaaS provider Engine Yard becoming a fully featured multi language platform player, they are today announcing that JRuby on Engine Yard is entering general availability. Timed to coincide with next week’s JavaOne conferent, JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby language that Engine Yard initially

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