Month: April 2013
Cloud vendors name the price to go private
For many punters, the economic benefits of a pay-as-you-go rented virtual machine start to disappear at around $10,000 of predictable monthly spend, and at this point it really does make sense for them to investigate other support options or even start owning their own hardware.
What’s right in the corporation
What is right in the corporation is not what is right in a man’s home or in his church. What’s right in the corporation is what the guy above you wants from you.
Opscode cooks up deals to serve Chef automation from IBM, Joyent clouds
Software AG buys LongJump for cloud PaaS
Amazon beats profit expectations, tops 90,000 employees for first time
AWS has lowered prices 31 times since it launched in 2006, including 7 price reductions so far in 2013.
—Amazon beats profit expectations, tops 90,000 employees for first time
Pivotal puts PaaS in the spotlight
{{{So specific!}}} Paul Maritz, the former long-time Microsoft executive and VMware CEO who now heads Pivotal, says there’s a lack of an application development platform with built-in capabilities to manage and analyze large quantities of data geared toward the enterprise. Pivotal is a “new platform for a new era,” he says.
MuleSoft Buys Programmable Web From Alcatel-Lucent, Marking The Telco’s Departure From A Core API Community
Alcatel-Lucent acquired Programmable Web in 2010. At the time, Alcatel-Lucent had hopes for fostering a developer ecosystem and build out its own API management strategy. But the effort never really seemed to take hold. Hopefully, it will be a different story with Programmable Web part of MuleSoft.