After spending time at VMware and Cloud Expo last week, I believe that VMware's lack of full backing for Cloud Foundry software is holding back the entire PaaS market in the enterprise. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of momentum in PaaS despite how very immature the market is. But this momentum is in... Continue Reading →
Open Clouds at Red Hat
Red Hat has ben making steady progress toward what is shaping up as a fairly interesting cloud strategy. Building on their Deltacloud API abstraction layer and their CloudForms IaaS software, a hybrid cloud model is starting to emerge. Add to this their OpenShift PaaS system, and you can see that Red Hat is assembling a... Continue Reading →
PaaSing Comments – Data and PaaS
I've been looking at the PaaS space for some time now. I spent some time with the good folks at CloudBees (naturally), and have had many conversations on CloudFoundry, Azure, and more with vendors, customers and other cloudy folks. Krishnan posted a very good article over on CloudAve, and at one level I fully agree... Continue Reading →
Forward PaaS: VMware’s Cloud Foundry First Down
I know it's baseball season, but there's no passing in baseball and this post will just work better as a football analogy. VMware's announcement this week of Cloud Foundry (twitter @cloudfoundry) has gotten a lot of attention from the cloud community, and for good reason. Just as hardware is a low-margin commodity business, hardware as... Continue Reading →
John Treadway 