Tag Archives: .NET Framework

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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November 27, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Apprenda Launches Hybrid Cloud Support

By Ben Kepes

Today is the first day of the Cloudbeat conference, an event that myself and Paul Miller have, for the second year, built the agenda for. CloudBeat is all about customer case studies and not about vendor announcements, that said I am aware of a couple of announcements coming up today

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September 17, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Apprenda Introduces Free Public-Cloud Hosted Version of Its PaaS

By Ben Kepes

In the seeming ever increasing rush towards so-called polyglot PaaS, or PaaS-providers supporting every language under the sun, there has been a single lone voice that has consistently been saying polyglot is a failed methodology. New York based Apprenda makes a .NET PaaS and has long said that only through

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July 10, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Microsoft Offers Hosts Another Cloud to Chose From–White Labels Azure

By Ben Kepes

Microsoft this week announced a new program that will allow hosting service providers to use existing data centers to deliver a white-label version of Azure. This is a progression from the announcement last month that Microsoft was giving developers the ability to achieve symmetry between public and private PaaS with

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July 10, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ActiveState Lanches Stackato 2.0

By Ben Kepes

ActiveState (see coverage here), is today announcing the general availability of version 2 of Stackato, their private PaaS designed for enterprise customers. By way of introductions, over the 15 or so years it has existed, ActiveState have focused on understanding three things deeply; Developers, Enterprises and OpenSource technologies. I spent

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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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June 27, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

.NET has Enterprise Cred–AppHarbor Banks on That With a PaaS

By Ben Kepes

In the race to build credibility with the development community, Ruby on Rails wins the battle to be cool hands down – look for a new web 2.0 application, or hunt down a quintessential garage-dwelling developer and it’s a safe bet they live in Ruby. That doesn’t change the fact

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April 7, 2011 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Engine Yard Goes Free(ish) and Talks Post Heroku Deal

By Ben Kepes

Engine Yard is a Ruby PaaS offering that, ever since the Decemebr acquisition by salesforce.com of another PaaS Heroku, has been held up as the last-man-standing (at least when it comes to independent Ruby based PaaS providers). They recently introduced a free trial (as distinct from a freemium) strategy that

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