Canopy has been set up as a joint venture between Atos (a substantial European-headquartered systems integrator), EMC, and VMware to deliver productized cloud solutions, including Cloud Foundry PaaS. In this post, we explore why.
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ActiveState Brings Docker to Cloud Foundry — Trojan Horse?
ActiveState has pioneered the use of Docker as an alternative container technology underneath Cloud Foundry by integrating it into its Stackato product.
The PaaS Build vs. Buy Decision You Didn’t Know You Were Making
It’s no secret that a majority of enterprises are slow to adopt PaaS solutions and favor IaaS solutions instead. What is a well-kept secret is that these enterprises are building their own PaaS solutions on top of IaaS without even realizing it.
CumuLogic Provides Database as a Service for On-Premises Cloud Foundry
Last week, CumuLogic launched a preview edition of its Database Service Broker for Cloud Foundry, a self-service managed SQL and NoSQL database service platform. Database Service Broker provides functionality equivalent to public Database as a Service (DBaaS) platforms such as Amazon Relational Database Service (for SQL) and Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL), but with the database hosted …
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Cloud Foundry Gets a Foundation
Pivotal has announced that an open source foundation is to provide external governance for Cloud Foundry.
Cloud Foundry and OpenShift Comparison
I plan to spend an afternoon getting an ISV application to run on the public PaaS version of OpenShift—to allow direct comparison with a fruitless afternoon spent on the public PaaS version of Cloud Foundry. In this post, I explain the radical difference in approaches I am taking in the two environments to deal with …