CloudFoundry: The First Open Paas Solution
Launched in April 2011, Cloud Foundry was touted as the first open PaaS solution. It is part of a new generation of application platform, designed specifically for cloud environments and delivered as a service from enterprise datacenters and public cloud service providers. Cloud Foundry was built with help from Mark Lucovsky, the technical director at [...]
CloudForms: Red Hat’s IaaS Offering
Red Hat has announced its new IaaS offering entitled CloudForms, which complements its PaaS solution, OpenShift. Based on a collection of over 60 open source projects, CloudForms offers users the ability to create hybrid public and private clouds, as well as offering a host of application lifecycle management capabilities. According to Scott Crenshaw, Red Hat’s [...]
OpenShift: Red Hat’s PaaS Offering
OpenShift, Red Hat’s PaaS (platform as a service) was announced in May 2011, during the Red Hat Summit 2011 in Boston. The PaaS environment supports a variety of programming languages and frameworks, including Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and more. It enables developers who build on open source and offers a wider variety of languages, frameworks [...]
Cloud Service Providers & Questionable Contracts
Cloud service contracts are often rushed through, which leads to costly blunders and serious risks. According to a recent Techaisle estimate, small and medium businesses are reviewing and signing about $11 billion worth of cloud service contracts, in 2011 alone. Four Risks Whenever an enterprise is planning to enter into a cloud computing contract, it [...]
