Amazon Enters Microsoft’s Turf of .NET PaaS

May 10, 2012
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The PaaS competition heats up with Amazon adding ASP.NET support to its AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment and MS SQL Server to the Amazon RDS offerings. This is a significant announcement from Amazon as it draws the battle lines with Microsoft which is aggressively positioning Windows Azure as the .NET Cloud offering to the developer community. [...]

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HP Cloud is All Set to Enter the Public Beta

May 7, 2012
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OpenStack gets one of the most crucial endorsements as HP goes into the public beta on May 10th. I got the private beta access a couple of months ago and I tried a few scenarios. Though it has a long way to go, HP Cloud looks complete in its approach and is ready to take [...]

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AWS Marketplace – An Oversimplification of the Cloud?

April 30, 2012

Recently Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Marketplace. It is certainly a welcome move that brings all the available software on Amazon EC2 under one roof. This is especially good for ISVs to get visibility and become more accessible to potential customers. The interface inherits the classic look and feel of Amazon shopping experience [...]

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First Year Progress Report of Cloud Foundry – Did it PaaS?

April 11, 2012
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It’s been a year since VMware launched Cloud Foundry. This was an important milestone for VMware in establishing itself as a platform company. VMware has been on an acquisition spree to consolidate its offerings to woo the developers. It started with RabbitMQ, GemStone and finally SpringSource. But announcing Cloud Foundry was a masterstroke from VMware [...]

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Manage Multiple Clouds with RightScale

April 10, 2012
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I recently got a chance to work on RightScale for a proof-of-concept and I must say that they have an impressive technical architecture that reflects some of design and deployment best practices of the Cloud. I want to provide a business overview of this platform through this article. Compared to traditional IT, Cloud does offer [...]

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Citrix Throws a Spanner in the Cloud Market, Submits CloudStack to Apache Foundation

April 4, 2012
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Citrix has announced that it is submitting the popular CloudStack platform to Apache Foundation. This comes as a surprise as Citrix has acquired Cloud.com only last year by investing a few hundreds of millions of dollars! With this, Citrix is also dumping it’s own distribution of OpenStack called Project Olympus. This move has shaken the [...]

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Book Review – To The Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise

April 2, 2012
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There are many books on Cloud Computing in the market today. Most of them focus on the technical aspects of dealing with designing, developing and deploying applications on various Cloud Computing platforms. The target audience of these books happens to be developers or IT professionals. But when it comes to senior decision makers and CXOs, [...]

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Amazon Elastic Beanstalk goes Polyglot with its PHP Support

March 28, 2012
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Almost every PaaS vendor has gone polyglot and Amazon Web Services is not an exception. Last week AWS has announced PHP and Git deployment for Elastic Beanstalk. Having been launched with Java support almost a year ago, Beanstalk has got another language in the form of PHP. Technically, Amazon Beanstalk has been designed to run [...]

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Amazon Web Services and Eucalyptus Partnership – What Does it Mean to Us?

March 24, 2012
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On March 22, AWS and Eucalyptus announced a partnership to bring compatibility between the AWS API and the Eucalyptus API. While this can be perceived as simple technology interoperability between the stacks, this announcement has a significant impact on the Cloud ecosystem. Amazon’s CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels has been vocal about their stand on the [...]

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Amazon’s New Pricing Makes Cloud More Affordable

March 7, 2012
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Amazon has done it again! They reduced the price for the 19th time in the last six years. The latest price reduction is significant because it impacts Amazon EC2 which is the most popular service of AWS. You can consume Compute on the AWS Cloud in one of the three forms; 1) On-demand which is [...]

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