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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.
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Articles tagged "PaaS"
Wed, 8 May 2013
Fri, 5 April 2013
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…
Mon, 25 March 2013
Fighting Cloud Sprawl In The Enterprise
Out-of-control cloud adoption can be a big headache for enterprise IT departments.
Fri, 1 March 2013
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.
Wed, 16 January 2013
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…
Thu, 4 October 2012
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…
Wed, 18 July 2012
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…
Tue, 29 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…
Fri, 11 May 2012
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…
Tue, 27 March 2012
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…
Tue, 14 February 2012
Heroku Data Clips Make Sharing Results from Postgres Queries Simple
Heroku has added a data clips feature to its Heroku Postgres databases. What's that, you ask? According Heroku's Matthew Soldo, data clips…
Tue, 7 February 2012
The Disintegration of PaaS
In PaaS Makes Progress in 2011, I argued that the previous 12 months had been pivotal to the advancement of platform-as-a-service. As a…
Mon, 23 January 2012
PaaS Makes Progress in 2011
While Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has always had its cheerleaders - yours truly included - the harsh reality is that, commercially…
Fri, 20 January 2012
Cloud Roundup for January 20, 2012
Little bit of news around Node.js today, Amazon has added support for Identity Federation, and Oracle customers might want to pay…
Thu, 19 January 2012
Cloud Roundup for January 19, 2012
To abuse the cloud metaphor, there's a storm brewing over public and private clouds. Not surprisingly, providers of public clouds (who…
Fri, 30 December 2011
Hosting a WordPress Blog on OpenShift
If you’re using WordPress, the options you are mostly likely to use are to run your own stack, use a shared hosting provider that…
Fri, 16 December 2011
Running Bugzilla on ActiveState's Stackato
Here's an interesting post from ActiveState's Jan Dubois on running Bugzilla on their Stackato PaaS. It's not a quite as simple as running…
Wed, 30 November 2011
Au-to-do: Google Releases App Engine Ticket Tracker
Google is hoping to entice a few developers over to Google App Engine (GAE) by providing a ticket tracker that runs on GAE for developers to…
Tue, 22 November 2011
Heroku Launches PostgreSQL Standalone Service
PostgreSQL is getting a lot of love from cloud providers this year. It was the first RDBMS chosen for OpenShift, and VMware gave the…
Mon, 21 November 2011
Engine Yard Introduces Labs and Node.js Support
Stack another platform on top of the ever-expanding PaaS provider, Engine Yard. The company has introduced support for Node.js through a new…
Fri, 16 September 2011
Heroku Streamlines Facebook App Creation
Heroku is claiming the fastest and easiest way to get a Facebook app up and running in the cloud. Yesterday the company announced a new…
Thu, 15 September 2011
Google Relents on App Engine Pricing (Sorta): Is it Enough?
Google did not make developers happy with its pricing changes to Google App Engine GAE. Google announced the pricing changes in May, but…
Thu, 8 September 2011
The GitHub of Software Translation: Transifex Goes Freemium
From Summer of Code to core of the open source community, Transifex is a service to watch. Indifex, the company behind the Web-based…
Tue, 23 August 2011
VMware Has New Micro Version of Cloud Foundry
When we wrote about how to get started with VMware's Cloud Foundry last month, we mentioned that they were about to start a Micro Cloud…
