by Yefim Natis | August 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
Yesterday at VMworld conference Tod Nielsen, a VMware executive leading its platform efforts, had announced that VMforce will not be delivered, CloudFoundry technology will not run in the salesforce.com data center and users of CloudFoundry.com will be enabled to access database.com in some unspecified way as a compensating feature. Today Byron Sebastian, salesforce.com platform executive, [...]
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by Yefim Natis | December 8, 2010 | 3 Comments
Salesforce.com (SFDC) is spending over $250 million for Heroku that has revenue likely under $10 million (adoption momentum notwithstanding since most of the adoption is of the free version of the service). Some question the wisdom of such expensive buy. However — such challenge is short-sited. SFDC is not fighting to get a few $$. [...]
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by Yefim Natis | August 25, 2010 | 2 Comments
Red Hat announced “Red Hat PaaS” which is in fact a Red Hat “PaaS-builder technology” for private clouds and for new aspiring public cloud providers. The key differentiators for this offering are: 100% open-source Near-comprehensive middleware technology suite (though component-parts are not all industry best-of-breed) — there is a Portal, ESB, AppServer, BPM technology, SOA [...]
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by Yefim Natis | August 19, 2010 | 5 Comments
In preparation for Gartner Application Architcture, Development and Integration (AADI) conference scheduled for Novemeber I am developing a PaaS Scenario presentation. We have recently published a PaaS Reference Architecture research , a PaaS market assessment research and are working on the PaaS road map and more. Below is a brief Q&A on PaaS for the [...]
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by Yefim Natis | April 29, 2010 | 4 Comments
It has become publicly known recently that the creator of the Java programming language (and a near-cult figure with some), James Gosling, has resigned from Oracle. This seems to suggest his displeasure with the Oracle’s road map for Java (although he makes no statement to this effect). However beyond the emotional side of things, the [...]
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by Yefim Natis | March 24, 2010 | 3 Comments
Gartner just published an important Cloud/PaaS-related research note “Application Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: a Growing Market, 2010″. Here I just want to share a footnote from that paper and see if some might want to disagree, add-on or comment in any other manner. This text is trying to deal with the nuance of some flavors [...]
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by Yefim Natis | March 16, 2010 | Comments Off
According to CIO.com, IBM will soon announce a Rational/WebSphere test and development offering in the Cloud (IBM Adding Development and Test Offering to Public Cloud) Everyone (justly) intrigued by the new opportunity should ask themselves: why does IBM not offer a production deployment option? Your opinion is welcome here. I will comment back to your [...]
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by Yefim Natis | March 11, 2010 | Comments Off
Talking to a gathering of a group of IT decision makers recently, I collected a number of reasons why they did (or may) choose the cloud computing option to replace the traditional on-premises approach for some of their application projects. The products considered were cloud application platforms like Force.com, AppEngine, LongJump and many others (see [...]
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by Yefim Natis | February 22, 2010 | 2 Comments
Hello and welcome! Use this blog entry to post questions to me. I will reply to all of your questions either here, as a response to your comment/question, or in a separate blog entry if I think the topic is of general interest. The question may be IT-related, though my answer would be limited to [...]
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