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Articles tagged PaaS

Wednesday, 8th May 2013

Cloud Computing

Cloud Acronyms Unwound: How To Tell Saas, IaaS and PaaS Apart [Infographic]

Cloud Acronyms Unwound: How To Tell Saas, IaaS and PaaS Apart [Infographic]

Finally, a clear, visual, explanation of three of the most common — and most confusing — cloud-computing acronyms.

Cloud Fredric Paul comments

Friday, 5th April 2013

Microsoft Execs Flock To Amazon And Red Hat

Microsoft Execs Flock To Amazon And Red Hat

Microsoft has been leaking executives in the past week, but it may be less an indication of something wrong at Microsoft so much as something going really well at Red Hat and Amazon.

Enterprise Matt Asay comments

Monday, 25th March 2013

Fighting Cloud Sprawl In The Enterprise

Fighting Cloud Sprawl In The Enterprise

Out-of-control cloud adoption can be a big headache for enterprise IT departments.

Cloud Lucas Carlson comments

Friday, 1st March 2013

Cloud Computing

Microsoft Strikes Back At Amazon With Windows Azure Community Portal

Microsoft Strikes Back At Amazon With Windows Azure Community Portal

Microsoft is now waging another platform war - the battle for the cloud. But this time it's the underdog.

Cloud Daniel Lopez comments

Wednesday, 16th January 2013

Everything-as-a-Service: It's Happening Right Now

Everything-as-a-Service: It's Happening Right Now

New Marketing-as-a-Service and Healthcare-as-a-Service operations illustrate the trend toward delivering Anything-and-Everything-as-a-Service over the Web.

Cloud Brian Proffitt comments

Thursday, 4th October 2012

SAP's Creepy New Retail Software Uses Big Data Make You Buy More Stuff

SAP's Creepy New Retail Software Uses Big Data Make You Buy More Stuff

Not so long ago, the most advanced piece of technology present at the intersection of consumer and retailer was the cash register. Today, buyers are bringing their own technology on their shopping trips - and trailing a very revealing online data footprint. One big enterprise software company is promising retailers new technology that will let…

Enterprise Brian Proffitt comments

Wednesday, 18th July 2012

Cloud Computing

The New Microsoft Office: 20 Things to Like, Not Like and Worry About

The New Microsoft Office: 20 Things to Like, Not Like and Worry About

When Steve Ballmer took the stage in San Francisco on Monday to reveal the next step in the evolution of Microsoft’s most important application, he gave the world’s 1 billion users of Microsoft Office plenty to look forward to - but also some things to worry about. Here’s a sampling of what to look for, what to avoid and what to be afraid…

Enterprise Fredric Paul comments

Tuesday, 29th May 2012

Heroku Chief Opens the Door to More Processes, Bigger Ecosystem, Less Amazon

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, the man who led the Heroku PaaS platform to prominence - and who continues to lead it as Executive Vice President of Salesforce - says that as his platform expands, it could certainly penetrate old barriers. One such barrier could be the ribbon, if you will, in front of a "Heroku apps store." Another is the…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Friday, 11th May 2012

Cloud Computing

Why You Should Build Your Apps on a Cloud Platform - And How to Choose the Right One

If your business is producing Web sites, then it's all too easy to assume that the way you innovate is by producing bigger, broader, more content. When you consider the platform as something that exists only on the client side - where the customer determines the scheme and not you - any functionality you create becomes a slave to the browser…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Tuesday, 27th March 2012

Autodesk CEO Pushes "Democratization" of Technology

Autodesk CEO Pushes "Democratization" of Technology

Most people think of Autodesk as the maker of AutoCAD, the design software of choice for architects, engineers and other design professionals - typically running on high-powered workstations. So why is Autodesk CEO Carl Bass so hung up on the "democratization" of technology - spreading technology to the cloud computing platforms and mobile…

Infrastructure Fredric Paul comments

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