Archive for the 'Cloud Computing' Category

5 Lessons For Cloud Entrepreneurs

February 7, 2011
Written by Ameed Taylor

At a recent DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders session at the Stanford Technology Ventures program, Box.net CEO Aaron Levie discusses 5 lessons for technology (especially cloud) entrepreneurs.

Category: Cloud Computing, Entrepreneur, Software, Venture Capital, Web 2.0

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Enters PAAS Market

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January 24, 2011
Written by Ameed Taylor

Amazon Web Services (AWS) last week released its Elastic Beanstalk Service to beta. Elastic Beanstalk is AWS’s new Platform as a Service (PAAS) solution that helps developers deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud.

Elastic Beanstalk runs with Amazon EC2, S3, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto-Scaling and Simple Notification Service on the Amazon Linux AMI.Elastic Beanstalk allows a developer to upload an application to Elastic Beanstalk using the AWS Management Console, API’s or the AWS toolkit for Eclipse and automatically deploys and provisions the necessary services required to run the application.

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Category: Amazon AWS, Amazon EC2, Cloud Computing, Consoles, PAAS, Rackspace

Choose The Cloud

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January 20, 2011
Written by Ameed Taylor

One of the issues that has held cloud computing back from even faster market adoption is a lack of understanding by rank and file business and consumer users of the benefits of moving to the cloud.

Spearheaded by Box.net, CEO’s of a number of prominent cloud vendors have banded together to talk about the benefits of the cloud with the; I Choose the Cloud, initiative. Other vendors who have joined include Xobni, SocialText, Zuora, Get Satisfaction and Freshbooks.

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Category: Cloud Computing, Entrepreneur, IAAS, PAAS, SaaS, Software

Why Developers Hate Platform As A Service

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January 5, 2011
Written by Ameed Taylor

Not being a pure software developer myself, I never quite understood why many developers do not like the current PAAS environments on the market.

Randy Hearn, a senior research analyst with Info-Tech Research Group; gives food for thought on how PAAS vendors can make their solutions more appealing to developers.

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Category: Cloud Computing, OnDemand Software, PAAS, SaaS, Software

Upcoming Cloud Computing Conferences

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November 23, 2010
Written by Ameed Taylor

In a clear sign that Cloud Computing is moving rapidly up the technology adoption curve; there are numerous Cloud Computing conferences scheduled within the next 8 months.

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Category: Americas, Asia, Cloud Computing, Conferences, Europe, SaaS