Tag: PaaS
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Link: BMC Touches Clouds with Job Scheduler
The new support for cloud platform as a service (PaaS) functions — including Lambda, step functions, and batch on AWS and logic apps and functions on Azure — gives organizations the capability to orchestrate workflows on the cloud. But, importantly, it also allows customers to integrate these cloud functions with applications running in private clouds…
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🗂 Pairing at DBS
> There are various mechanisms and methods that we use to transform the skills of our incumbents. Dedicated classroom training programs is one way, but it is the least preferred option. Mostly, we believe in pairing employees who need to be trained with others who are native to those capabilities; we have found this to…
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Link: How Air France – KLM designed its PaaS Cloud Foundry
“it was not a question of replacing our experts but of increasing the skills of the group’s internal teams,” says Thierry Morcq. (Translated with Google Translate.) Original source: How Air France – KLM designed its PaaS Cloud Foundry
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Link: Cloud Foundry Cult
Owen covers CF Summit Basel: “The users we spoke with didn’t just see it as a PaaS – it was the underlying philosophy of application delivery and management upon which future developments would be based. The Foundation claims Cloud Foundry saves, on average, 10 weeks of development time and $100,000 per app development cycle. In…
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Link: Containers and serverless functions – a modern architecture needs both and more
“While it’s unclear whether cost savings are the primary motivation for PaaS adoption, 62 percent of IT leaders (presumably a subset that omits developers and operations people) cite saving at least $100,000 by using PaaS instead of traditional development techniques.” Also, summary of latest CFF survey and few other vendor sponsored surveys on PaaS, containers,…
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Link: Oracle Gets Cloudy: What’s Behind Their Change in Financial Reporting?
“Oracle did announce during the earnings call that cloud revenue was $1.7B for the quarter, but failed to break that out between SaaS and the combined IaaS and PaaS, as was previously reported. Also, with BYOL, it is impossible to know if customers are using those licenses in the cloud or on-prem, thereby obfuscating their…
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Link: Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth takes aim at VMware and Red Hat at OpenStack Summit
“A lot of institutions are figuring out that Ubuntu and upstream Kubernetes gives them 80% of what they need from PaaS, while the open Kubernetes ecosystem takes care of the remaining 20%. And that comes in at a third of the cost of Red Hat,” he said. Also, he says they’re much cheaper than VMware…
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Link: Meltdown and Spectre underscore the ongoing need for infrastructure automation
“In the Cloud Foundry scenario, these are embodied by BOSH to automate the infrastructure resource, namely VMs, container clusters, virtual storage and networks, configuration and deployment and Concourse for the development pipeline. Together, these enable organizations to rapidly and consistently patch all applications using the PaaS environment. Together, these enable organizations to rapidly and consistently…
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Link: Building the convincing PaaS business case
Pretty good check-in on current studies showing productivity and ROI from using PaaS. Original source: Building the convincing PaaS business case
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Link: App development teams brace for big change in 2018
“The rush is on for enterprises to build and deploy better software faster, and that’s going to drive a doubling of PaaS adoption – both on premises and in the cloud – in the next 18 months,” Bartoletti said. “In some industries, like financial services and retail, leaders are already differentiating by how well they…
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Link: IDC: Federal government seeing cloud spending push
“In addition, the government plans to increase PaaS spending from $227.1 million in FY15 to $231.3 million [in FY16].” We’re still in a phase where categorization causes weird slices of spend like this, but there you have it. More figures on “cloud” spending in the piece. Source: IDC: Federal government seeing cloud spending push
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Link: Wanted: 1,400 sales jockeys to flog Oracle Cloud
Ramping up cloud: “Oracle talks a great cloud game – it says it has in the last six months added nearly 1,500 new software as a service (SaaS) customers and more than 2,100 platform as a service (PaaS) customers.” Source: Wanted: 1,400 sales jockeys to flog Oracle Cloud
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Link: Cloud Foundry poised to shine in 2016, Chris Talbot
“Based on the articles I wrote and the people I spoke with in 2015, I’d say 2016 is going to be a good one for Cloud Foundry, as well as for PaaS in general. Compared to SaaS and IaaS, PaaS is still quite small, but it’s growing.” Source: Cloud Foundry poised to shine in 2016,…
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Coté Memo #074: \”Let’s start an anonymous club.\”
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New Connector Links Heroku and Salesforce.com Data Repositories
New Connector Links Heroku and Salesforce.com Data Repositories
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Red Hat revenues, old vs. new and early cloud momemtum
Brandon Butler sums up the “old” (Linux) vs “new” (middleware and cloud) revenue stream for Red Hat The company gets about 80% of its $1.3 billion in revenues from a category that’s headlined by RHEL, and those subscriptions aren’t likely going away any time soon, says Joel Fishbein, who tracks Red Hat’s stock closely as…
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Press Pass: PaaS in 2014 (Pun!)
Paul Krill asked a few questions about the future of PaaS last month for an omnibus appdev article of his (it’s a nice round up!). Here’s the only slightly edited full reply I sent him: Q: Does 451 Group see 2013 as a banner year for PaaS? If so, why? PaaS has always had the…
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RedHat’s PaaS, OpenShift out with new rev
The PaaS market has been heating up recently and Red Hat’s release of the latest version of its PaaS marks the latest move. Pivotal (which is a spin out from VMware and EMC) recently released its PaaS named CF, which is the productized version of the Cloud Foundry open source project. Meanwhile, Verizon recently announced…
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