Posts Tagged ‘ Cloud Foundry ’

Cloud Foundry and the Pivotal Initiative

December 5, 2012
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CloudComputing

VMware's Cloud Foundry has been festering for the best part of a year now. It smells a little bit of lack of courage, and a lot of lack of focus. The body is still warm, but I fear EMC/VMware may have already snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Does the Cloud Need a New Programming Language?

September 27, 2012
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Agile Cloud Development

The question of whether there is a specific cloud programming language has emerged in our internal discussions at TVP. We've noticed a tendency amongst "born in the cloud" companies like Cloud Physics to follow the example of Twitter and develop server-side components in the Scala programming language. Scala runs on the JVM and is supported…

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VMware – The Next Microsoft, or the Next Oracle?

March 2, 2012
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VMware100x30

VMware prices and licenses its products today along a set of models that are not optimized for either pure market penetration (like Microsoft) or pure extraction of the maximum cash from each customer (like Oracle). These policies will likely ensure that VMware continues to dominate the high end of the market - especially in enterprise…

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AppFog – Extending the scope of Cloud Foundry

September 14, 2011
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There is now a huge amount of movement in the area of what we have called “Diverse” Platform as a Service i.e. PaaS that delivers a number of different application infrastructure technologies on a mix-and-match basis and where there is no proprietary technology layer at any point in the platform stack. Amongst these we would…

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